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Many may only see collegiate Greek life as a cultural group who hides their partying behind community service hours and charitable donations. However, I would like to challenge that stereotype by emphasizing the professional development and self-improvement opportunity that is presented to Greek life members - especially those that hold leadership positions. Currently, I serve my one-hundred member sorority as chapter president and use other officers to maintain a well-balanced, structured, and involved organization.
Fraternities and sororities must operate as a company first, and a socialite second to be able to be successful. I would like to indicate some key concepts that report the relation between Greek organizations and businesses.
Greek organizations:
• Divide officers into teams to work on specific aspects of the chapter
• Must operate on a strict budget, fueled solely from member's dues
• Must market themselves well to be able to continue steadily to recruit new members
• Have mission statements and values to carry their members to and gear their brand
• Must follow rules from, and report to, their national headquarters
• Have insurance to cover their organization and its members, along with many policies and procedures in place for holding events
These are just a few points that report how Greek organizations are ran as the ultimate business, combining friendship with professionalism and offering members a good opportunity for personal development.
As president, I see all sides of running a Greek organization and must help every officer no real matter what team her position is just a part of. My days are full of constantly making decisions and weighing the consequences. I discovered to produce fair decisions that benefit the higher good, while remaining unbiased in the process. I also reply to everyone's questions and concerns while problem solving when an celebrity νεα unplanned event takes place. For example, we'd a small crisis with flyers that 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 chose to use the flyers we'd and made a brand new current email address with the typo included.
A huge section of running a successful organization is effective and professional communication. Our main forum of communication between officers and the advisory board is emailing. I have learned just how to properly send and react to emails in a professional manner. My communication skills have improved substantially since being a leader of my chapter. I have discovered to communicate concisely and format information in the most truly effective way. I have discovered providing information in bullet lists is the greatest way to have members to read messages fully. All of our officers must hold team meetings and get reports of progress in different areas on their team. Officers are responsible for organizing their own meetings and taking minutes to record the thing that was discussed. Greek organizations teach members to effectively and professionally communicate through emailing, holding meetings, and dealing with others.
One of the very valuable traits that I'm still learning through my presidency, is getting comfortable with hard conversations. I work closely with our Director of Standards and Ethics to ensure our members are holding themselves to your high ideals and values. If someone is falling behind, it's our job to have conversations using them about why that is happening and what we could do to ensure it doesn't happen again. These tough conversations become even tougher when remembering that the members of our chapter are also our friends and sisters. As a leader of a Greek organization, I am learning how to have these hard conversations while residing in control of myself and the conversation.
Greek life has much more to offer compared to the social part of the corporation, and can truly prepare young adults to become listed on the professional world. Through developing members personally, and developing officers professionally, Greek organizations will offer life-changing collegiate experiences that can't be found elsewhere.