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Volunteer One-On-One Conversation Guides: an Annual Strategy for Children's and Youth Ministry The Grow Strategy provides seven tactics to help you recruit, train, and retain volunteers in family ministry: volunteer events, meetings, discussion groups, one-on-ones, communication, tools, and celebration. This resource gives you an annual strategy for your Volunteer One-On-One Conversations. A conversation is a one-on-one meeting with a volunteer for the purpose of building relationships and giving and receiving feedback. The Grow Strategy recommends scheduling one-on-ones at least once a month, and to leave room for more conversations as needed. We're big believers that meeting regularly with your volunteers one-on-one is pretty important-not just for your volunteers, but also for you and your ministry. That's because your volunteers need to know you care about them, and building relationships is a great way to communicate how much you value them. But it's also because these conversations help you evaluate how well your volunteers are doing in their roles, and how well your ministry is doing in supporting them. If you're building your own customized Grow Strategy Calendar, we recommend putting one-on-ones on your calendar every month (if not every week) to check in with your team. But be prepared to add more conversations to your calendar during key moments like onboarding new volunteers, troubleshooting issues with volunteers, and offboarding volunteers who didn't work out.

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