Add, Edit, or Delete Skills/Talents & Interests
Build and maintain the lists volunteers pick from — add a new entry, rename one, or remove entries you no longer use.
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Only available to administrators and users who have the Manage Skills/Interests permission.
Skills and interests are kept as two lists that you manage the same way. Adding to the default list gives volunteers more to choose from. Deleting an entry removes it from your list and from the volunteers it was recorded against.
- In the top-left corner, click your site name then Realm. Then click .
- Click the Skills or Interests tab, depending on which list you want to work with.
- Choose what you want to do:
- Add— Click + Add a Skill or + Add an Interest, enter a name and description, then click Add.
- Edit— Click
next to the entry and select Edit, then make your changes and click Save.
- Delete one— Click
next to the entry, then select Delete.
- Delete several— Select each entry you want to remove, click the Select an action... drop-down menu, then select Delete.
- If prompted, click Delete to confirm.
Default Skills/Talents & Interests
The skills and interests that come preloaded, which you can add to or remove.
Default Skills
| Building | The ability to construct, make and assemble |
| Cleaning | The ability to renew, enhance or refresh |
| Coaching | The ability to prepare, instruct, train, equip, and develop |
| Communicating | The ability to share, convey and impact |
| Computing | The ability to add, estimate, total and calculate |
| Consulting | The ability to advise, discuss and confer |
| Cooking | The ability to prepare, serve, feed and cater |
| Counseling | The ability to guide, advise, support, listen and care for |
| Decorating | The ability to beautify, enhance and adorn |
| Encouraging | The ability to cheer, inspire and support |
| Engineering | The ability to construct, design and plan |
| Landscaping | The ability to garden, plant and improve |
| Leading | The ability to pave the way, direct, excel and win |
| Mentoring | The ability to advise, guide and teach |
| Nursing | The ability to provide medical care, heal, aid and make comfortable |
| Organizing | The ability to simplify, arrange, fix, classify and coordinate |
| Performing | The ability to sing, speak, dance, play an instrument or act out |
| Planning | The ability to arrange, map out and prepare |
| Repairing | The ability to fix, mend restore and heal |
| Teaching | The ability to interpret, decode, explain and speak |
| Welcoming | The ability to entertain, greet, embrace and make comfortable |
| Writing | The ability to compose, create, edit and record |
Default Interests
| Children's Ministry | Caring for the young members of our church family |
| Hospitality | Making people feel welcome at church functions |
| Music Ministry | Leading and participating with our worship team through musical proficiency |
| Senior Ministry | Serving and caring for our older generations |
| Small Groups Ministry | Leading and participating with our congregant-lead groups |
| Youth Ministry | Serving and caring for the teenagers in our church and community |