10 Ways to Enhance Your Nonprofit Workforce

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Automating paper job applications, reviews, and new hire forms can deliver a significant ROI, provide fast access to personnel information, and allow you to focus on your mission – not paperwork.

Reduce time spent on paperwork

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Use social networksto broadenrecruiting outreach

Use social networks to attract and engage quality personnel and volunteers. Social networks can establish your brand while sourcing new staff, calling for volunteers, and communicating with stakeholders.

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A comprehensive onboarding process helps staff and volunteers to be effective and engaged from day one. Paperless onboarding can allow new hires to complete forms before they step foot in the office.

Use onboarding to get volunteers and staff up to speed3

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Train volunteers and staff online

Multimedia training can significantly reduce time-to-productivity. Staff, volunteers, donors and the community can easily review and complete training and connect with your mission much faster—and on their own time.3

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Measure, document, and improve performance

Demonstrating ongoing effectiveness is critical. Measure and document performance to reduce risk, align organizational goals and initiatives, and address improvement through goal setting and tracking.

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Improve succession planning

Identify skill shortages before they occur and source and develop leaders ahead of projected baby boomer gaps that can threaten your mission effectiveness and longevity.

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Create, manage, and track organizational and staff goals to retain and engage high performers. Generate visibility for improved donor engagement.

Help staff and volunteers build and achieve goals7

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Connect people within your organization

Supporting collaboration is key to building strong, committed teams, retaining institutional memory, ensuring more effective project collaboration, and enhancing volunteer capabilities.

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Extend your nonprofit’s reach

Nonprofits can have a greater impact through adoption of new technologies. Use online video courses to educate, train, and prepare your constituencies for the future and foster greater connection.

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Donors today are very interested in how contributions are being used

Demonstrating improvements in workforce productivity not only confirms smart stewardship but is an easy way to show a need for more staff or dollars.

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