The Name Game

Brenda Clifton of the Volunteer Center of the Pikes Peak Region offer this fun group exercise to enliven volunteer recruitment training. Participants are given one-half of a pair of job titles and have to find their matching half. The catch is that group 2 has traditional, ordinary titles (like painter, cat lover, nursery volunteer) while group 1 has politically-correct (“pc”), creative names (like colorist application expert, enamored felinist, cuddle buddy)!

This interactive exercise can be done with staff, volunteers or a mix of both. It is also helpful when trying to introduce new ways of thinking about volunteer positions within an organization that may have recruitmentitis stagnitis.... First and foremost, it gets people up and moving around.