Many may only see collegiate Greek life as a cultural group who hides their partying behind community service hours and charitable donations. However, I want to challenge that stereotype by focusing on the professional development and self-improvement opportunity that's presented to Greek life members - especially those that 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 company first, and a socialite ελλαδα ειδησεισ σημερα second in order to be successful. I want to indicate some key concepts that show 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 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, in addition to many policies and procedures in place for holding events

They're just a couple of points that report how Greek organizations are ran as the ultimate business, combining friendship with professionalism and offering members a great 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 just a part of. My days are full of 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 reply to everyone's questions and concerns while problem solving when an unplanned event takes place. As an example, we had a tiny 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 chose to utilize the flyers we'd and made a brand new email with the typo included.

A massive part of managing a successful organization is effective 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 an expert manner. My communication skills have improved substantially since being truly a leader of my chapter. I discovered to communicate concisely and format information in the top way. I have discovered providing information in bullet lists is the best way to get members to see messages fully. All of our officers must hold team meetings and get reports of progress in the different areas on their team. Officers are responsible for organizing their very own meetings and taking minutes to record that which was discussed. Greek organizations teach members to effectively and professionally communicate through emailing, holding meetings, and working with others.

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

Greek life has much more to provide compared to the social aspect 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.