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 people who hold leadership positions. Currently, I serve my one-hundred member sorority as chapter president and use other officers to steadfastly keep up a well-balanced, structured, and involved organization.

Fraternities and sororities must operate as a business first, and a socialite second in τηλεοραση order to be successful. I want to indicate some key concepts that report the relation between Greek organizations and businesses.

Greek organizations:
• Divide officers into teams to focus 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 put on 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 place for holding events

They're 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 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 learned to make fair decisions that benefit the more 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 instance, we had a tiny crisis with flyers that have been made to market 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 use the flyers we'd and made a new email address with the typo included.

An enormous section of running a successful organization works well and professional communication. Our main forum of communication between officers and the advisory board is emailing. I discovered just how to properly send and react to 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 most truly effective way. I are finding providing information in bullet lists is the best way to obtain members to learn messages fully. All of our officers must hold team meetings and get reports of progress in the different areas on the 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 together with others.

One of the very most valuable traits that I'm still learning through my presidency, is ways to get more comfortable with hard conversations. I work closely with this Director of Standards and Ethics to ensure our members are holding themselves to your high ideals and values. When someone is falling behind, it's our job to possess conversations using them about why that is happening and what we can do to be sure it doesn't 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 provide compared to social aspect 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.