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

Fraternities and sororities must operate as a business first, and a τίτλους ειδήσεων της ημέρας 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 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 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 show how Greek organizations are ran as the best business, combining friendship with professionalism and offering members a good opportunity for personal development.

As president, I see all sides of owning a Greek organization and must help every officer no matter what team her position is 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 higher good, 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'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 made a decision to utilize the flyers we had and made a fresh email address with the typo included.

A huge element of running a successful organization is beneficial and professional communication. Our main forum of communication between officers and the advisory board is emailing. I discovered how exactly to properly send and answer emails in a professional 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 very best way. I have discovered providing information in bullet lists is the better way to have members to learn 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 what was discussed. Greek organizations teach members to effectively and professionally communicate through emailing, holding meetings, and working with others.

One of the most valuable traits that I'm still learning through my presidency, is ways to get confident with hard conversations. I work closely with your 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 together about why that is happening and what we are able to 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 a lot more to supply compared to the social facet of the corporation, and can truly prepare teenagers 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.