Simply Strategic Volunteers: Book Review

January 2, 2009 in book review with 0 Comments

If you work in church leadership or for non-profits, you exist in the realm of volunteers. As a relatively new pastor I was hoping to get some good meat on how to motivate, manage, and lead volunteers. That’s why I read the book Simply Strategic Volunteers.

Suffice it to say, though, that I was disappointed.

The book has 99 short chapters, each about a page and a half in length. It’s written by two co-authors who alternate authorship for each chapter. One writes one, the other writes the other.

The shortness of each chapter keeps things fresh and interesting. But my problem comes from the content. It seems like they never really sat down to write an outline for what they wanted to present. I imagine them sitting in a room together and saying, “ok, what are 99 brief subjects that we can tackle quickly,” and then randomly begin calling out little experiences and topics.

Literally, it seems as if they just took short blog articles that they’ve written in the past years and packaged them up into a book. In some way or shape, each chapter deals with church ministry or volunteers, but there was just no methodical presentation on developing a system for managing and leading volunteers.

And so I continue my search for a good book that deals with the topic of managing and leading volunteers.

Any recommendations on this subject?

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