With winter tournaments in full swing it's a great time to be a hockey player, hockey fan or hockey team parent. But if you are the hockey volunteer coordinator, you may be thinking it's time to start drinking more coffee with the late nights ahead to get all the shot clock times, score keepers and clock operators needed from every team to let the games run smoothly.
"Usually we'll just grab one of the parents in attendance to do a volunteer job, but a lot parents get pulled game after game -- it'd be nice to have an easy way to let all the parents participate, take the burden off the volunteer coordinator -- and in the case of tournaments, have the whole schedule planned before the first puck hits the ice," hockey parent Irene P. explained.
Staffing the ice has just gotten a lot easier with teams turning to VolunteerSpot's simple volunteer scheduling tool. Even for schedules as complex as multi-day tournaments, VolunteerSpot's web-based application is so easy to use that even a huge 80 team schedule over 3 days with hundreds of volunteer jobs can be set up easily by any volunteer with a computer in less than 20 minutes. Then, simply copy in the email addresses of the team parents, hit send, and let them each claim a volunteer spot that fits their family schedule.
And just like Santa Claus, you'll know who's being good and signed up to help, and well, you know about the naughty list. Coordinators can pull up a list of all those who've failed to sign up, send them and only them a followup email to push them into action -- without bothering the rest of the team with a big ole' reply all email. Volunteer schedules can always be printed directly from VolunteerSpot to keep a hard copy on hand at the rink.
And with the volunteer coordination and scheduling made so simple for hockey season and tournaments, we can all relax and just enjoy the action.
