Volunteer Readers Needed!

The Southeastern North Carolina Reading Service is looking for volunteer readers.

This organization now uses The Calendar Planner to schedule their volunteer readers.

Their online calendar is color coded to communicate open slots for volunteers.

BLUE - These slots can be filled on an as needed basis. During these slots, volunteers can read magazines or novels at their own pace. This is not a weekly commitment.

YELLOW - These slots show volunteers who have made a commitment to come on these certain days and times.

GREEN - Thease are available reading times for new or existing volunteers! SIGN UP!

ORANGE - Slots that have been filled. Names may vary as volunteers choose their dates

To sign up, email the director at rrsvolunteers@gmail.com or call the office at 910-672-1600 to sign up for available reading slots.

Online June/July calendar!

Summer Schedule for Kids

ThriftyFun.com offers great resources for families looking for ways to engage and entertain kids for the upcoming summer. No personal calendar for the summer is complete without events that are set up with the children and family in mind.

Here are just some of the articles with summer scheduling information for kids that available at ThriftyFun.com:

Summer Survival
House Cleaning Schedule
Keep Kids Busy With Summer Movies

Find the links for these additional articles at ThriftyFun.com:
-Free Summer Kids Movies At Regal
-Summer Crafts For Bored Kids
-Back To School Breakfast Schedule
-Summer Book Club and Book Swap
-Craft Project: All-American Desk Sitter Kids
-Painting on a Tight Schedule
-Schedule the First Appointment
-Schedule for Vaccinations
-Summer Adventure: A Neighborhood Kids' Yard Sale

How to fairly schedule staff’s summer vacations in advance?

This was the question posed by one HR staffer to the HR Specialist Forum at Business Management Daily. This HR staffer was worried that staff schedules in the summer months could interfere with delivery schedules. Here were some of the suggestions offered by other HR professionals on how to approach scheduling staff for summer vacations:

1. Set a minimum time period for notice. eg. at least 3 days advanced notice.
2. Establish black out dates for the summer period ahead of time.
3. Communicate concerns to staff and ask if possible that they would be willing to collaborate on a schedule that would not have multiple staffers off at the same time.
4. Consider a first come-first served approach and a maximum number of staff who can be off at the same time.

The key was flexibility, with the understanding that staff should be encouraged to take earned vacation time. They will be more productive when they come back and the company will be better off.