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- 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
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