Streamlining Volunteer Onboarding Process – Getting Time On Your Side: Group Interviews
Published January 1, 2010
Judy Lieberman, MA, CAVS, Director, Auxiliary and Volunteer Services, Nemours A.I. duPont Hospital for Children
Melissa A. Heinlein, PhD, CAVS, Chief, Voluntary Service, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center
In this webinar, you will evaluate your current volunteer onboarding process, explore ways to effectively and efficiently streamline onboarding new volunteers and identify two different approaches of onboarding with similar outcomes and explore how you could convert their current practices into a time efficient system.
*This resource was originally developed by the Association for Health Care Volunteer Resource Professionals (AHVRP) prior to AHVRP integrating with The Beryl Institute in July 2020. This webinar does not offer Patient Experience Continuing Education Credit (PXE).
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