Greek Life Leaders: Working the Supreme Organization


Posted August 20, 2018 by MikePaine

Many may only see collegiate Greek life as a cultural group who hides their partying behind community service hours and charitable donations.

 
Many may only see collegiate Greek life as a cultural group who hides their partying behind community service hours and charitable donations. However, I want to challenge that stereotype by concentrating on 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 work with other officers to maintain a well-balanced, structured, and involved organization.

Fraternities and sororities must operate as a business first, and a socialite second in order to be successful. I want to point out 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 in order to continue to recruit new members
• Have mission statements and values to hold 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're 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 personal development.

As president, I see all sides of running 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 higher 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. For example, we had a small crisis with flyers that were made to promote an event we were having. When they came in, we noticed the contact email on the flyers was spelled wrong. After some deliberation, we decided to utilize the flyers we'd and made a fresh email with the typo included.

A huge part of managing a successful organization works well and professional communication. Our main forum of communication between officers and the advisory board is emailing. I have learned how to properly send and respond to emails in a specialist manner. My communication skills have improved substantially since being a leader of my chapter. I have learned to communicate concisely and format information in the most effective way. I have discovered providing information in bullet lists is the best way to obtain members to see messages fully. Our officers must hold team meetings and get reports of progress in different areas on their team. Officers are accountable for organizing their particular meetings and taking minutes to record that which was discussed. Greek organizations teach members to effectively and professionally communicate through emailing, holding meetings, and working together with others.

One of the very most valuable traits that I am still learning through my presidency, is getting confident with hard conversations. I work closely with your Director of Standards and Ethics to make sure our members are holding themselves to our high ideals and values. If someone is falling behind, it's our job to have conversations using them about why this is happening and what we could do to ensure it does not 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 am learning how to have these hard conversations while staying in control of myself and the conversation.

Greek life has much more to supply compared to the social aspect of the business, and can truly prepare young adults to join the professional world. Through developing members personally, and developing officers professionally, Greek organizations can offer life-changing collegiate experiences that can't be found elsewhere.
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Last Updated August 20, 2018