Greek Life Leaders: Operating the Supreme Company

[LynnPowers]

Many may only see collegiate Greek life as a social group who hides their partying behind community service hours and charitable donations. However, I wish to challenge that stereotype by focusing on the professional development and self-improvement opportunity that is presented to Greek life members - especially those who hold leadership positions. Currently, I serve my one-hundred member sorority as chapter president and assist other officers to maintain a well-balanced, structured, and involved organization.

Fraternities and sororities must operate as a company first, and a socialite τηλεοραση second to be able to be successful. I would like to point out some key concepts that show the relation between Greek organizations and businesses.

Greek organizations:
• Divide officers into teams to focus on specific regions of the chapter
• Must operate on a strict budget, fueled solely from member's dues
• Must market themselves well to be able to continue to recruit new members
• Have mission statements and values to put up their members to and gear their brand
• Must follow rules from, and are accountable to, their national headquarters
• Have insurance to cover their organization and its members, as well as many policies and procedures in area for holding events

They are just a few points that report how Greek organizations are ran as the greatest business, combining friendship with professionalism and offering members a good opportunity for personal development.

As president, I see all sides of managing a Greek organization and must help every officer no matter what team her position is really a part of. My days are filled with constantly making decisions and weighing the consequences. I have discovered to make fair decisions that benefit the greater good, while remaining unbiased in the process. I also reply to everyone's questions and concerns while problem solving when an unplanned event takes place. Like, we'd a tiny crisis with flyers which were made to market an event we were having. When they came in, we noticed the contact email on the flyers was spelled wrong. After some deliberation, we made a decision to utilize the flyers we'd and made a fresh email with the typo included.

An enormous element of owning a successful organization is effective and professional communication. Our main forum of communication between officers and the advisory board is emailing. I discovered how exactly to properly send and respond to emails in a specialist manner. My communication skills have improved substantially since being truly a leader of my chapter. I have discovered to communicate concisely and format information in the utmost effective way. I are finding providing information in bullet lists is the better way to obtain members to see messages fully. Our officers must hold team meetings and get reports of progress in the different areas on their team. Officers are in charge of organizing their very own meetings and taking minutes to record that which was discussed. Greek organizations teach members to effectively and professionally communicate through emailing, holding meetings, and dealing with others.

One of the very most valuable traits that I am still learning through my presidency, is how to get confident with hard conversations. I work closely with our Director of Standards and Ethics to ensure our members are holding themselves to our high ideals and values. If someone is falling behind, it is our job to own conversations using them about why this is happening and what we could do to be sure it doesn't happen again. These tough conversations become even tougher when remembering that the members of our chapter may also be our friends and sisters. As a leader of a Greek organization, I'm understanding how to have these hard conversations while remaining in control of myself and the conversation.

Greek life has much more to provide compared to social facet of the business, and can truly prepare teenagers to join the professional world. Through developing members personally, and developing officers professionally, Greek organizations can provide life-changing collegiate experiences that can't be found elsewhere.