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The Leadership Compass for Volunteer Managers (Session 3D)

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Time: 12:55 pm - 2:20 pm
This workshop best fits the experience level and category of: All

Navigate the differences between your work style and others around you by using the leadership compass. Participants will learn what their primary direction is in relation to workplace leadership and the day to day functions of our jobs. How do you react to co-workers around when there is conflict? What is your behavior tendency when you under pressure? Does your work performance change when working on a task individually or collective? Discover how your leadership compass makes a big impact both on the work you process and the work of those around you. 

Learning Objectives

  • Understand your work style when taken to the extreme
  • Understand your work style and how it relates to others around you
  • Understand 4 different types of leadership and how each is represented in your-self

Presented by:
Jonathan Wallace: Volunteer Services Specialist, American Red Cross
Dhriti Pandya: Grant Writer, Volunteer Center of North Texas

Jonathan Wallace: Volunteer Services Specialist, American Red CrossJonathan Wallace
Jonathan Wallace serves as Recruitment Specialist for the American Red Cross - North Texas Region. As a Recruitment Specialist, Jonathan is responsible for recruiting volunteers from a 13 county, including the DFW area, who can help support the mission of the Red Cross, specifically by assisting in preparedness and relief operations during a time of disaster. Jonathan has ten years serving in volunteer leadership capacities & with local and national nonprofit service organizations.

Jonathan Wallace is the Youth Volunteer Corps Manager. As an AmeriCorps member with the American Red Cross – Dallas Area Chapter, Jonathan brought a network of Red Cross Clubs to schools in the Dallas area and educated various communities about disaster preparedness and safety. He managed an after school program and the City Year AmeriCorps members that carried out tutoring activities in Arkansas. Upon returning to Dallas, he has seen YVC of North Texas through its first two years, piloting a successful 2010 Summer of Service, various monthly service-learning projects, and an initial classroom-based service-learning program. Jonathan has built relationships with various colleges and universities and helped make service-learning and youth engagement a larger focus with educators and agencies.

Dhriti Pandya: Grant Writer, Volunteer Center of North TexasDhriti Pandya
Dhriti Pandya served as an AmeriCorps member, Youth Volunteer Corps (YVC) Coordinator, with the YVC of North Texas program in 2010. She managed various operational aspects of the pilot Summer of Service program, including coordinating “Flashback Friday,” a reflection day of program youth volunteers. During Fall 2010, Dhriti served as the YVC facilitator for the pilot SLIC (Service-learning in the Classroom) program. As YVC coordinator, she spoke in various classrooms about service and service-learning and has extensive background interfacing with students. Dhriti is now the Grant Consultant for the Volunteer Center of North Texas. Dhriti graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Austin College.

Thursday Night Networking Event

Please join us for a “Meet & Greet” reception Thursday Evening, March 1st.
There will be a Networking Get-Together Thursday evening 6 – 9pm, for all attendees at Fireside Pies Restaurant, 817-416-1285 (Map - Menu).  Buy your own dinner but share the table with professional Volunteer Managers from around Texas and the surrounding tri-state area.  The committee members and I look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to Dallas/Fort Worth and the 2012 Texas Volunteer Management Conference.
~ Warm Regards, Telesa Walton, CVM, Chair Texas VMC 2012. chair@texasvmc.org

Dallas Association of Directors of Volunteers
The Volunteer Center of North Texas
Tarrant County Directors of Volunteers in Agencies (DOVIA)