Good Conversations - tips and techniques for volunteers

Good Conversations - tips and techniques for volunteers

Practical advice on how to make our conversations more beneficial to out guests.

By Linking Lives UK

Select date and time

Wed, 7 May 2025 02:00 - 05:00 PDT

Location

Online

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

W hat is this about?

95% of attendees feel more confident about their volunteering role after attending this session!

This two hour session provides many benefits to anyone volunteering to host welcoming spaces for the public. This might include cafe drop-ins, Foodbanks, Warm Welcome spaces, lunch clubs, Places of Welcome, Community Libraries, Men's Sheds or any other community initiatives.

Benefits of the session to volunteers include:

  • Improves confidence in your volunteering role
  • Enables you to recognise skills you already have, and how to apply them in your volunteer role
  • Equips you with new knowledge and skills (that you can use in other situations as well as your volunteer role)
  • Provides reassurance that you are prepared to deal with a wider range of circumstances
  • Highlights some unhelpful things most of us tend to do in conversation, and how to avoid them
  • Aids in avoidance of embarrassing or awkward situations- Reduces personal risk
  • Enables you to see enhanced benefit to your guests/service users, and to know you have made a difference

What people have said...

"One of the best presentations/webinars I have seen"

"Really enjoyable and engaging course. I will be recommending it to others"

"Thank you - I registered to see if the course would be relevant for our team of volunteers. I will definitely recommend they all attend as part of their training and induction."

Sign up today!

PLEASE NOTE: This booking will be for one person to attend. Due to interactive elements, having more that one person signed in makes it difficult for the organisers and other participants. If you have group wishing to train together please contact us for options.

Group Bookings

If you are booking on behalf of others who will join on the day, it is essential that you enter their email address in the booking, taking care to spell it exactly correctly, or they will not receive joining instructions or follow up resources.

If you have a group of 10 or more participants you would like to book on behalf of your organisation, please contact us at Training@linkinglives.uk.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I have to donate?

No, anyone can attend free of charge. But we are a charity and the £5 voluntary donation option helps us to keep doing this. If you prefer to wait until after the event to donate, just sign up free of charge, then visit our website www.linkinglives.uk later and click on DONATE.

I am a paid organiser/manager or staff member. Can I attend?

Yes, we welcome organisers and managers as well as their teams. Of course, if you are a paid organiser, you may like to consider the optional donation at time of booking.

Organised by

Linking Lives UK is a national Christian charity working with churches and Christian organisations to develop visiting/ befriending projects which support socially isolated older people.

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