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Skills development intro

The urge to get better skills is a reliable driver to keep volunteers engaged in the long-term. Opportunities for learning and doing tasks and jobs volunteers would not be able to do otherwise ranks high for retention.

Mastery

Excelling at performing a particular task over time

Challenge

New Skills

Opportunity

Variety

How do you expand the skills development driver?

Are you assessing the current skills of your volunteers? And what would they like to learn?
Are you assigning tasks that pose a certain level of challenge to your volunteers?
Are you providing training and guidance so your volunteers can master tasks?
Do you have a variety of tasks to offer?