Building High-Performing Volunteer Teams
Turn a group of individuals into a coordinated, high-output volunteer team.
For: Volunteers leading other volunteers
What you’ll learn
- Align your team around shared, measurable goals
- Build the trust and psychological safety high-performing teams rely on
- Match volunteers to roles that play to complementary strengths
- Establish accountability and healthy norms that lift the whole team
Screen your volunteers for $5
VolunteerBadge runs FCRA-compliant background checks for just $5 — with identity verification built in. No monthly fees, no contracts.
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- 1
A group is not yet a team
5 min
- 2
How teams develop: the four stages
6 min
- 3
Psychological safety: the #1 factor
6 min
- 4
Trust and the dysfunctions that block teams
5 min
- 5
Roles & complementary strengths
5 min
- 6
Shared goals, norms & accountability
5 min
- 7
Celebrate, sustain & put it together
4 min
Sources & further reading
- Google re:Work — Guide: Understand team effectiveness (Project Aristotle)
- infed.org — Bruce W. Tuckman — forming, storming, norming and performing in groups
- Harvard Business Review — Katzenbach & Smith — The Discipline of Teams
- The Table Group (Patrick Lencioni) — The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- Belbin — The Nine Belbin Team Roles
This course is educational and provides general information about the Fair Credit Reporting Act and volunteer-screening best practices. It is not legal advice. Laws vary by state and change over time — consult a qualified attorney about your organization’s specific obligations.