This Free Course on Employee Volunteering Is What You've Been Looking For!
Transform employee volunteerism with free online course ‘Empathy in Motion: The Power of Employee Volunteering’
Empathy in Motion: The Power of Employee Volunteering
Companies across the globe are gatekeepers of a valuable experience for employees, providing support and resources for employees to take action and make a difference in the communities where they live and work.
As a corporate social responsibility leader you realize that providing volunteer opportunities and support can build morale, encourage team building, increase productivity and help to develop and build your company culture.
But what’s the best way to create or strengthen volunteer programs?
Make it transformative rather than just transactional
In the traditional model of volunteering, the purpose is to freely provide a service to respond to a crisis or solve a problem. In the transformative model of volunteering, the purpose is to develop and strengthen empathy through experience. Transformative volunteering creates space for participants to reach beyond the immediate context and circumstances of themselves and their communities. Instead of simply exchanging time or resources for the reward of making a difference, volunteers are guided to consider their potential to become increasingly pro-social human beings with a greater capacity for empathy.
The primary focus of transformative volunteering is the change that occurs in the volunteers themselves. Volunteering programs and activities are designed to invite all participants to “engage in critical reflection on their experiences, which in turn leads to a perspective transformation.” This transformation in an individual’s perspective is necessary to achieve change at the psychological, convictional, and behavioral level. Discover four compelling reasons to adopt the Transformative Volunteering method.
A free online course for you
“Empathy in Motion: The Power of Employee Volunteering,” a free, open online course from industry leaders RW Institute and hosted by openSAP, can help you take volunteering to the next level, whether your company has established volunteering processes and structures or is just beginning to organize and drive volunteering initiatives.
Learn in four hours how to engage with volunteers to move from transactional to transformative events, how to encourage team building in a deeper way – and how to make a positive impact on the world.
“Empathy in Motion” starts March 14, and is open until April 12. It is free and available to any employer or employee. To register, visit open.SAP.com, beginning Jan. 31.
For more information, watch the Empathy in Motion teaser video.
Promote the course to leadership, employee volunteers and interested colleagues – check out our Empathy in Motion toolkit, which includes an FAQ, infographic, course overview, and more!
Special thanks to Toyota for for their generous support, making it possible to promote Empathy in Motion to global audiences.
