It was interesting yesterday to have a conversation with a few of my coworkers about how much we loved to facilitate training sessions with the volunteers that work at our hospital. Our volunteer membership is around 700 people, that choose to be here on a weekly basis. They are here because they love the facility, interacting with others and assisting anyone they can in any capacity.
Our volunteers are the first to sign up for courses that we offer. I never have to ask for a deposit from them to ensure they show up. I know they will. They’re hungry for any knowledge we can share with them. Add volunteers to any facilitated session and a two hour session turns into four because they are willing to talk, discuss and share ideas. In fact they have so many great ideas it is often difficult to capture them all.
Our volunteers show up for every shift for which they are scheduled. You never have to worry that you’ll be short staffed. They arrive cheerful and excited to have another day “at the office.” Each time they arrive to work they come in ready to do the task at hand and you can be guaranteed that when they leave that task is completed. This is true even when they are assisting with truly mundane tasks like envelope stuffing. A certain level of “fun” is found in every job that is assigned to them.
Now imagine that each an every one of us came to our desk, our station, our position in the world of work with that same attitude. Same out look. Same drive to help. Just imagine how much we could accomplish every single day.