318.294.2717 info@ygmtrc.com
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Why YGM?
  • FAQ
  • Testimonials
  • YGM Blog
  • Contact Us

Give Motivated Volunteers a Chance

HomeBlog Give Motivated Volunteers a Chance
April 12 2018 admin Blog, Chambers, TRC, Volunteers 0 comments Tags: total resource campaign, TRC, volunteers
2161 0

Do your Vice Chairs or Team Captains ever ask what type of people make the best volunteers?

As expected, we have tips of all sorts, but sometimes the best tip is to remind your Vice Chairs and Team Captains that anyone with a wide range of business contacts can succeed in a Total Resource Campaign. Never discount someone’s motives or professional drive.

One of my favorite volunteer stories comes from a top performer who surprised everyone with her success. She was not recruited by anyone to be on a team, in fact. She volunteered. She requested that her boss, the TRC Chair, assign her to a team.

As we were doing our wrap up sessions, we asked this volunteer why she wanted to be a part of the TRC. With no hesitation she said, “I was pissed.”

After the group stopped laughing, I asked her to explain.

“I was pissed because no one asked me to join a team. I am the executive assistant to the CEO of one of the largest companies in town, but no one saw me as capable,” she explained. “And I wanted the opportunity to prove them wrong.”

Prove them wrong is exactly what she did. Each week, she was one of the top three performers in the TRC.

She took the knowledge she had gained of the business community through her job and systematically paired businesses with sponsorships that would work well for them. She was highlighting how the sponsorships were going to benefit both the Chamber and the business and, in the process, she was strengthening her own personal business contacts.

At the first few Rally Sessions, you could hear people asking about her and how she was doing so well. By the third or fourth, everyone knew she was one of the ones to emulate.

She proved to her boss and to the others who passed her by initially that she was more than capable. She showed that Vice Chairs and Team Captains need to be relentless in their search of people who have a vast business contact base… that employees can make the TRC work for them… that they can be a success in the TRC with the right mindset.

 

 

Who is the Best TRC Chair for your Campaign? Support Your Local Teachers

Related Posts

  • Sponsorships in a Time of Uncertainty
    April 21 2020, 0 comments

    You had your 2020 calendar all set and were excited about the

    More
    6440
  • Re-energize your volunteers for a mid-campaign boost
    March 12 2016, 0 comments
    In the life of a sponsorship campaign, there are natural peaks and valleys. Most
    More
    20430
  • It’s All About Those Teams
    October 21 2016, 0 comments
    I’ve been talking a lot lately about building a sponsorship campaign and the initial
    More
    17400
  • It’s never too late to keep your resolutions
    February 07 2018, 0 comments
    It’s now early February, and we are well into 2018. When you and your staff began
    More
    16640

YGM Total Resource Campaigns is proudly powered by WordPress