Currently, I serve my one-hundred member sorority as chapter president and use other officers to keep 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 want to point out some key concepts that show the relation between Greek organizations and businesses.

Greek organizations:
• Divide officers into teams to work with specific areas of the chapter
• Must operate on a strict budget, fueled solely from member's dues
• Must market themselves well in order 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 are accountable to, their national headquarters
• Have insurance to cover their organization and its members, in addition to many policies and procedures in place for holding events

These are just a couple of points that report how Greek organizations are ran as the ultimate business, combining friendship with professionalism and offering members a great opportunity for private 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 a part of. My days are filled up with constantly making decisions and weighing the consequences. I discovered to make fair decisions that benefit the more good, while remaining unbiased in the process. I also response to everyone's questions and concerns while problem solving when an unplanned event takes place. As an example, we'd a small crisis with flyers that were made to advertise an event we were having. If they came in, we noticed the contact email on the flyers was spelled wrong. After some deliberation, we chose to use the flyers we had and made a brand new current email address with the typo included.

A huge part 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 discovered just how to properly send and react to emails in a specialist manner. My communication skills have improved substantially since being fully a leader of my chapter. I discovered to communicate concisely and format information in the very best way. I have found providing information in bullet lists is the better way to get members to learn messages fully. Our officers must hold team meetings and get reports of progress in different areas on their team. Officers are responsible for organizing their particular meetings and taking minutes to record what was discussed. Greek organizations teach members to effectively and professionally communicate through emailing, holding meetings, and working with others.

One of the very valuable traits that I'm still learning through my presidency, is how to get confident with hard conversations. I work closely with this Director of Standards and Ethics to ensure our members are holding themselves to our high ideals and values. When someone is falling behind, it's our job to have conversations using them about why this really is happening and what we can do to make sure it generally does not 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 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 part of the business, 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.