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Bid : $RACESBUL.272
TO: ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES VIA AMATEUR RADIO
INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CA (ALLCA: OFFICIAL)
ALL AMATEURS U.S. (@ USA: INFORMATION)
FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6HIR @ WA6NWE.CA)
2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832 (916)262-1600
Landline BBS open to all: (916) 262-1657
RACESBUL.272 DATE: May 3, 1993
SUBJECT: MGT - The committed volunteer - Part 1/3
The services of any volunteer group hinges on the success of
appealing to and utilizing the skills of the individual, rather
than stressing conformity of the whole into one rigid mold. This
is more applicable to communications volunteers than to, say, law
enforcement or fire suppression volunteers. We have discussed
previously the broad areas of specialization in which a
communications volunteer may serve: administrative, operational,
and technical.
As their administrator you may not be familiar with the three
levels of activity in which your volunteers may choose to serve.
It is our aim to describe these to you and discourage casting all
volunteers in to one performance mold, so to speak.
The one common and underlying thread that motivates all
dependable volunteers is a strong sense of duty. They will be the
last to admit this to you, but it is a commitment to duty that
motivates them. This is particularly hard to be understood by
paid employees with no experience with volunteers; particularly
by or among those employees who cannot understand why anyone
would want to volunteer for work which they themselves do not
particularly enjoy. The sad truth is that few people work day to
day at something they really like and derive a sense of
satisfaction and accomplishment. The biggest single reason
governments do not have a volunteer program is that the
professional staff person does not understand, recognize, and
subscribe to this concept. They, of course, seldom see these
words (the RACES BULLETINS) because, if they have no volunteers,
there is no delivery of these weekly volunteer program management
bulletins.
(To be continued in Part 2)
EOM