Managers: Keep An Eye Out for New Projects

3/23/17


Last year while scouting around for new projects to keep our volunteer department fresh and on everyone's radar, I realized that our broadcast department had never hosted a conference. As a member of a professional broadcast organization, we received industry updates via email from time to time. Scanning the organization's newsletter, I found a contact name and asked if the annual conference had ever had a host from the East Coast. Not for some time, but we would be the first host station from New Jersey. Realizing that the bulk of the work would fall on me (we are a two-person station), I nevertheless decided it would be worth the trouble for me, and by extension, our volunteers.


The experience left me exhausted but glad that I was able to use my organizational and creative skills on a much larger scale. Our volunteers made me proud and  we received quite a few compliments on their professionalism.


You may be understaffed, overworked, and busy just maintaining your daily schedule, but consider taking on a larger project.