5 Reasons to Send Your Staff to In-Person Fundraising Training
Staff won’t be multitasking while learning. 92% of people multitask while doing online/virtual trainings or meetings, and that increases with the length of the training. Now, your staff might be one of those 8% unicorns who have better willpower than the rest of us, but why take that chance?
They can ask questions as they learn. No more pages and pages of questions for you after a virtual training to get clarification. And be honest, you haven’t looked at the training yourself in 2 years, so you don’t really know what they are talking about.
Building Community. Staff will meet other professionals doing the same work they are doing. They hear new ideas from other organizations. Afterwards, they can reach out to their new friends for problem solving and support.
Training doesn’t get put off. It is so easy, when you have a pile of work on your desk, to prioritize the urgent and tangible ones first. Virtual training can be pushed to the next day, and then the next week, and soon two months have gone by and they have lost the link to the trainings. In person training removes the tyranny of the urgent and allows staff to focus just on learning for the day.
They will return excited to implement. The knowledge that they come away with from training will result in the confidence to get the job done. And they will pick up some new ideas that will build your organization’s events. Triple win!
