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This is what all CITY list owners need to do to bring
any new volunteer on board:
All new volunteers need to join CL. They need to read
and agree to our guidelines, go through training with
the List owner they are aiming to help. That is so
they not only know the use of the settings, but that
they learn the process of training. This means each
CITY list owner needs to do the inviting to CL,
changing the status to Moderator, run them through
training on the list in question and on the CL list.
This is our example to them on how training takes
place. They will be training others who come later,
they need to know "out loud" that this is part of the
process. The new volunteers must know that part of
their participation on any CITY list that they "reach
out" and help in training in the future. By doing it
this way it spreads out the training duties and
develops everyone's skill in shared leadership.
This is what I'm doing with all of you, sharing the
leadership role.
All this was sorely lacking with the former list family: training,
guidelines, support to Leaders, Trust in Leaders,
setting an example of pitching in to train those who
come on board as a volunteer later on.
Experienced vs Inexperienced Moderators:
Most of the ClayArtMods were new to the list, new to
clay when recruited. Most had not even gone through
their three month period of participation
qualification for Newbie Boxes before I asked them to
become Moderators for the clay list. That's because
their actions, participation, energy they put towards
the list spoke volumes to me about them.
Recruiting Moderators who are new to a medium gives
the list members who are also new to the medium
someone to "discover with". When list members are too
shy to ask a "beginner" question the Moderator new to
the medium can "ask for them" in a round about way.
"I've been wondering if ..." to begin a discussion for
beginners. It works, trust me.
Knowing everything about a topic isn't the most
important aspect of being a Moderator. Being willing
to look something up, willing to share HOW TO look
something up with the list member, being excited about
the medium and willing to share that delight with the
list, all that is more valuable than a bushel full of
Moderators who "know it all" and don't have that
excitement and willingness to share.
So for any recruited Moderator you wish for your list
help them: to join CL, agree to guidelines, schedule a
time to help train them, change their status to moderator here and
on the list they aim to help you with, show them by example that
this is the way it is done for CITY Moderators and
that we expect them to do the same for others in the
future.
In this way we have Moderators who are prepared and
supported but not made Co-Dependant on us to do all
the work.
Many hands make lighter work, and saves us all from
early burn out.
xoxo
NJ
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