However, I want 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 use other officers to keep up a well-balanced, structured, and involved organization.

Fraternities and sororities must operate as a business first, and a socialite second to be able to be successful. I would really 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 regions 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 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

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

As president, I see all sides of owning a Greek organization and must help every officer no real matter what team her position is a part of. My days are full of constantly making decisions and weighing the consequences. I have learned 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 were made to market an event we were having. Once they came in, we noticed the contact email on the flyers was spelled wrong. After some deliberation, we decided to use the flyers we had and made a new email address with the typo included.

A massive part of running a successful organization is beneficial 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 answer emails in a professional 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 utmost effective way. I have discovered 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 different areas on their team. Officers are accountable for organizing their own meetings and taking minutes to record what was discussed. Greek organizations teach members to effectively and professionally communicate through emailing, holding meetings, and working together with others.

One of the most valuable traits that I'm still learning through my presidency, is getting confident with hard conversations. I work closely with this Director of Standards and Ethics to be sure our members are holding themselves to the high ideals and values. When someone is falling behind, it's our job to possess conversations using them about why this is happening and what we are able to do to make 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 learning how to have these hard conversations while residing in control of myself and the conversation.

Greek life has a lot more to offer compared to the social facet of the organization, and can truly prepare adults to participate 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.