Resources tagged with term(s) "Communication skills, AmeriCorps"

  • Monitoring and Evaluating Members
    This page of the EnCorps collection of resources looks at a number of things successful supervisors do to keep members on track.
  • Benefits of Effective Relationships
    This page of the EnCorps collection of resources reviews several sets of benefits created by effective member-supervisor relationships.
  • Problem-Solving
    This page of the EnCorps collection of resources discusses problem-solving techniques for supervisors.
  • Communication with members
    This information from the EnCorps collection of resources discusses the importance of effective communication in keeping members connected and on track; includes three audio clips from veteran...
  • Coaching your members
    Bring out the best in your members with these coaching resources and insights from the EnCorps collection.
  • Creating effective member-supervisor relationships
    This information from the EnCorps collection of resources offers resources to create effective member-supervisor relationships, with topics including coaching, communication, and problem solving.
  • Tutorial: Core Competencies of a Supervisor
    This tutorial from the EnCorps collection of resources helps supervisors build skills in several key areas.
  • Supervisor's Toolkit
    This toolkit from the EnCorps collection of resources offers supervisors help with goal setting, communication, coaching, evaluations, and more.
  • Manager's Guide to Communication
  • Crafting a comprehensive approach to leadership development
    Creating a leadership development program requires clarity on leadership values as well as competencies, lucidity on the purpose for which a program is developing leaders, intentionality about...
  • Understanding the role of staff during disaster deployment and recovery
    During disaster recovery, having a set of best practices already in place can save lives. This effective practice presents key points to consider when assigning responsibilities to program staff as...
  • Recruiting AmeriCorps members in rural areas
    Recruiting and retaining volunteers can be challenging for AmeriCorps programs, especially in rural areas where potential members are spread out over a wider geographical distribution. Nonetheless,...
  • Talking to community gatekeepers about becoming AmeriCorps program partners
    A community gatekeeper is a nonprofit or government agency that has access to potential AmeriCorps members that are not within the Corporation for National and Community Service family. These...
  • Providing emotional support for volunteers in disaster situations
    Volunteers and members who are deployed to help during disasters may need additional support, due to the psychological impact of serving during these scenarios. This effective practice discusses how...
  • Forming and sustaining an InterCorps Council
    InterCorps Councils connect and coordinate programs statewide, share resources, promote leadership skills and an ethic of service, and provide a forum for service members to voice collective opinions...
  • Encouraging AmeriCorps members to write their stories
    Motivating members to write "great stories" of service so that they are dynamic and compelling isn't always easy, but always well worth the effort. Great stories can be used in reports and in...
  • Changing from staff supervision to a team-based system
    When AmeriCorps members and volunteers serve at multiple sites, it may not be realistic for program directors to work closely with all members and site supervisors to ensure everyone is fulfilling...
  • Motivating students to complete homework
    By using recreation time as an incentive, after-school programs motivate students to complete their homework assignments. Athletes in Service AmeriCorps members have successfully implemented the...
  • Using members as training resources
    Well-planned and effective training reflects member needs, builds on member expertise, and also works to meet broader program goals. Mosaica's newsletter, TrainingBriefs (February 1998, no. 6), shows...
  • Using small groups to maximize training
    Small groups provide a valuable training tool that can simultaneously transmit information, teach project-specific as well as general skills, and reinforce the "sense of team" among members. Mosaica'...
  • Working effectively with multiple sites
    Multi-site management is a reality for many national service programs. When members serve at multiple sites, program directors need to work closely with members and site supervisors to ensure...
  • Planning statewide cross-stream leadership training
    This National Service Fellows report details an effective and cost-efficient program model and leadership training curriculum called the "Leader Corps" to train national service leaders in leadership...
  • Teaching peer conflict resolution skills
    This model from the book Effective Practices in Public Safety focuses on AmeriCorps programs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Brooklyn, New York, that are teaching students nonviolent conflict...
  • Communicating effectively with the media
    This excerpt from Sharing Your National Service Story: A Guide to Working with the Media provides suggestions for effective public communication to help a national service program recruit, reach...