6. DAY: Motivate, recognize, monitore, evaluate the volunteers!

Day 6 started with an administrative announcement about lunch. Afterwards we went outside to take a group photo in a sunny place. Everyone will have really small eyes J we did an energizer with Sona who made us move a lot, we really woke up a little bit. We were energized enough for the next task: we split in order to prioritize the reasons why people are volunteering. After gathering back in the big room and talking about it, we had the MCCLELLAND’S test for finding out what our motivation is. Marty energized us with the house song and I think everyone woke up after those really loud screams. After this, Sorin got the floor talking about the recognition of the volunteers and grouping us to find out our ideas of recognition. Sorin’s beautiful assistant Cosmin is now having the floor showing us videos with EVS volunteers. The other beautiful assistant, Sorin, is now back on the stage explaining us how the monitoring is working. And now Romania is having the floor because of this cool program only available nationally called “Volunteer360”. The next thing I know is that everyone hated Allisson because she was in an impossible situation. After a long time we found out how we could solve the situation without killing anyone. The session ended and we have checked to see if our expectations were achieved and we went to dinner.

Author of the article: Andreea (Romania)

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