{"id":5127,"date":"2020-02-17T10:25:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T10:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teamkinetic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2024-02-28T10:51:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T10:51:27","slug":"cause-of-death-microsoft-excel-spreadsheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamkinetic.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/02\/cause-of-death-microsoft-excel-spreadsheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause of Death: Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Phil and his co-workers wanted to manage their volunteers, however, things took a turn for the worst & now Phil and his co-workers are here… <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Probably the most annoying platform to manage anything – never mind volunteers. My deepest sympathies are with those who have fallen down the bottomless rabbit hole of endless Excel Spreadsheets, which are over-occupied with volunteers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does anyone truly understand Excel?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Few people truly understand all the functionalities of spreadsheets – because there are way too many! Therefore the job is left to one person, who quickly becomes very demotivated and almost consumed by the spreadsheet itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just keep scrolling…  <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Scroll, after scroll. This is often associated with your current method of managing your volunteers. Finding the volunteer Jack Jones who wants to volunteer at the annual 10K run, couldn’t get any more complicated. However, by having a volunteer management system in place, your job could be a lot easier. Volunteer profiles can be easily searched for across the whole system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worry less <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to your volunteers there are a few things that they are guaranteed to ask. Where, when and what. Volunteer management systems worry about all this for you, by giving your volunteers their own profile and portal where they can access all this information and even more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nightmare of event planning <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You may have noticed Excel isn’t exactly the best for building your events, making the process highly laborious. No template on Excel can simplify all of that! But it doesn’t have to be this way. Volunteer management systems provide a simplified solution to what once seemed a strenuous task. Save your own time and leave your explicit language along with Excel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manage volunteers with more confidence <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You may be able to encrypt and password-protect the data stored on your Excel Spreadsheets. However, what happens when someone cracks your spreadsheet’s ‘safe password’? Every piece of data is then stolen, this won’t be just your budgets and accounts, this will be the personal data of your volunteers. But you don’t need to take this kind of risk with your volunteer’s data. Volunteer management systems are fully protected and encrypted with the most up-to-date security encryptions and they follow all new GDPR<\/a> data regulations.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a volunteer management system <\/a>should look like:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n