MikePaine - Greek Life Leaders: Working the Supreme Company FLAC

• Performer: MikePaine
• Title: Greek Life Leaders: Working the Supreme Company
• Genre: Hip-Hop & Rap
• Style: Beatbox
• FLAC size 2804 mb
• MP3 size: 1972 mb
• Record From Vinyl, 16"

Mikepaine Beatbox

Many may only see collegiate Greek life as a cultural group who hides their partying behind community service hours and charitable donations. However, I wish to challenge that stereotype by emphasizing 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 assist 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 would like to point out some key concepts that report the relation between Greek organizations and businesses.

Greek organizations:
• Divide officers into teams to focus 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 put up 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, along with many policies and procedures in place for holding events

These are just a few points that show how Greek organizations are ran as the best business, combining friendship with professionalism and offering members a great opportunity for personal 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 discovered to create fair decisions that benefit the more good, τηλεοραση while remaining unbiased in the process. I also answer to everyone's questions and concerns while problem solving when an unplanned event takes place. For instance, we had a tiny 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 chose to use the flyers we had and made a fresh email address with the typo included.

An enormous part of running a successful organization works well 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 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 very best way. I are finding providing information in bullet lists is the greatest way to obtain members to read messages fully. All of our officers must hold team meetings and get reports of progress in the various areas on their team. Officers are in charge of 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 with others.

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

Greek life has much more to supply compared to social facet of the organization, and can truly prepare teenagers to become listed on the professional world. Through developing members personally, and developing officers professionally, Greek organizations could offer life-changing collegiate experiences that can't be found elsewhere.