Stop Spending Your Time on Administration and Start Spending it on Strategy Development

Ideas for Maximizing Employee Engagement and Growing Your Employee Volunteer Program
Jun 3, 2013 4:30 PM ET

Stop Spending Your Time on Administration and Start Spending it on Strategy Development

If you have an employee volunteer program in place in your company, you likely want to make sure it is constantly growing and improving; that you are continuing to more effectively engage your staff and involve them in your organization’s efforts to make a difference in your community. But managing and coordinating an employee volunteer program can be incredibly cumbersome and time consuming.

If you are not taking the right steps to minimize the time you spend on administration, you cannot dedicate enough time to developing a better strategy and effectively growing your program. Indeed, if your program manager is drowning in administrative work, she probably will not have the motivation to grow the program—unless you find a way to streamline the work involved in doing so. We have some helpful tips for simplifying the administration of your employee volunteer program, including:

- Understand the burden

- Make a choice

- Unload repetitive work

- Focus, focus, focus

We expand on these ideas in our article, Stop Spending Your Time on Administration and Start Spending it on Strategy DevelopmentClick here to download it.