Strategies for a High-Octane Champions Program

Cover starting and maintaining a successful Community Champions program for an association:

• Finding the right volunteers
• Defining their role and tasks
• Keeping them engaged over time (surprise and delight, building relationships)
• Cycles of new volunteers at different times of year

Also cover challenges and what to watch out for:

• Not overworking a few shining stars
• Need to be more personal and direct with requirements and asks
• Posing a “community challenge” of specific tasks to the full group of champs didn’t work – why and what was learned