Is getting time with your volunteers challenging? Have you considered doing a virtual touch base rather than requiring a face-to-face meeting?<\/p>\n
On-site meetings often require child care, coordination around meals, room preparation, and more. A virtual meeting, though, requires only coordination of time–and a click. Using video conferencing technology like Zoom.us or Google Hangouts allows you to meet, interact with, and coach your volunteers from wherever you might be to wherever they might be.<\/p>\n
In my experience, video conferencing maintains the personal touch while also minimizing the complications of coordination and various time commitments. As you coordinate these meetings remember: they don’t need to be long. A simple touch base to review the past Sunday’s experience and talk through the coming weekend is usually enough.<\/p>\n
Give virtual coaching a try this week and see how your volunteers respond.<\/p>\n
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[Excerpted from Children’s Ministry Magazine, September\/October 2016 issue.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Is getting time with your volunteers challenging? Have you considered doing a virtual touch base rather than requiring a face-to-face meeting? On-site meetings often require child care, coordination around meals, room preparation, and more. A virtual meeting, though, requires only coordination of time–and a click. Using video conferencing technology like Zoom.us or Google Hangouts allows you to meet, interact with, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":31299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,670],"tags":[675,412,672,671,673,674],"class_list":["post-31296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-train","category-volunteers","tag-google-groups","tag-online-training","tag-online-volunteers","tag-viritual-coaching","tag-volunteer-coaching","tag-zoom"],"yoast_head":"\n