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 people 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 small business first, and a socialite second in order to be successful. I would like to point out some key concepts that report the relation between Greek organizations and businesses.

Greek organizations:
• Divide officers into teams to work with 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 to recruit new members
• Have mission statements and values to hold 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, in addition to many policies and procedures in area for holding events

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

As president, I see all sides of managing a Greek organization and must help every officer no matter what team her position is just a part of. My days are filled up with constantly making decisions and weighing the consequences. I have discovered to produce 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 have been made to advertise 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 had and made a fresh email with the typo included.

A massive section of owning 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 answer emails in an expert manner. My communication skills have improved substantially since being fully a leader of my chapter. I have discovered to communicate concisely and format information in the top way. I have discovered providing information in bullet lists is the greatest way to have 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 accountable for organizing their particular 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 working together with others.

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

Greek life has so much more to offer compared to the social facet of the organization, 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.