ARES District 3 Bulletins 2009

TO: ALL WOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS AMATEURS
ALL NON-WOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS AMATEURS
FROM: KEN HARRIS WA8LLM
WOOD COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS INCORPORATED

WV ARES BULLETIN NR 09.50               DATE: December 13, 2009
SUBJECT: DESIRABLE TRAITS IN A VOLUNTEER

What are the desirable traits for a volunteer?"

A management workshop, based on Harvard business school techniques, divided 110 people into eleven groups of ten people each.  The groups were asked to list all of the attributes that came to mind.

After a period of time they were told to stop writing lists, and vote on their top eight.  Then all eleven groups combined their results into the following top eight attributes:

1. Reliability.
2. Participation.
3. Being a team player.
4. Dedication and commitment.
5. Ability to cooperate.
6. Acceptance of responsibility.
7. Support; speaks well of his/her organization before others.
8. A success in his/her vocation.

Those are the top eight that beat out all others. What others might you add? (Reprinted, with modifications of, Wood County RACES Bulletin 91.15)

Ken Harris WA8LLM
Wood County WV
WV ARES Section Emergency Coordinator
WV ARES District 3 Emergency Coordinator