Leadership Skills (Paperback)

by Emily Kittle Morrison (Author) "Today a far greater percentage of the population is involved in volunteer efforts than at any time in history..." (more)
Key Phrases: interaction meeting, Consent Agenda, Interaction Recording, Board of Directors (more...)

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Product Description
A complete handbook to help you build leadership skills...

A comprehensive guide, packed with invaluable information and easy-to-use worksheets and forms. Any non-profit organization, volunteer group, board, auxiliary, fraternal organization, social-service agency or club can use and adapt these forms to help their group achieve goals successfully.

Starting with the basics of leadership for management positions, you'll learn to achieve your goals and to inspire the best, most productive work from volunteers.

Discusses trends in voluntarism, who volunteers and why, community resources for training, guidelines and contacts.

Learn how to conduct an effective meeting, establish goals, manage time, set priorities, create publicity and develop your career. Plus, how to:

-create unity within committees
-enhance motivation
-solve problems
-communicate effectively
-identify nonproductive behavior
-evaluate the group's effectiveness
-delegate responsibility
-develop commitment and involvement

Emily Morrison shares a wealth of experience gained from 30 years of personal volunteer work and research. She has spent the past 20 years consulting and conducting nationwide workshops to train other volunteers for successful leadership. This large format guide includes many useful forms that can be easily reproduced for your use.

About the Author
Emily Morrison shares a wealth of experience gained from 30 years in the field of volunteer management, much of it spent as a National Leadership Development Trainer.

She has spent the last twenty years conducting workshops for volunteers and Directors of Volunteers, to nurture leadership skills.

The large format of this guide allows the reader to reproduce any of the forms for use in training and working with volunteers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press; 3rd edition (June 21, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555610668
• ISBN-13: 978-1555610661
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #238,745 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Leadership Skills, March 26, 2009

By	E. Morrison "perpetual volunteer" (Tucson) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Great book, easy to read and use. Should be in the library of every non-profit and available to every Board member. Great resource for Volunteer Trainers.