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Thank you for the positive response.
I will say sororities seem to do it so much better when it comes to chapter operations and leadership resources. So even though I have no way of assessing how good their volunteer officers are, at least they have an effective and written process to fall back on when examining a chapter.
Makes me wonder how men have ruled the western world for the last two thousand years, but I imagine that brute strength helped.
The problem with having a sophomore and in many cases even a junior as social chair is that most of the chapters social calendar will be organized on that younger level. We always hear problems of junior and senior retention and that seems to be part of the issue, they don't feel that a lot of social events are relevant to them. They have been there, done that, and got the t-shirt.
You can always get younger members to go to "older" events but the reverse is not always true.
The social chair, should be replaced by an activites officer that should be an exec level position. ITs amazing how many people missed the boat on that one: As is said again and again, we are primarily social organizations and yet we deemphasize the position that determines which events we do as well as the quality of those events.
Its a very underestimated and underappreciated position.
I see no answer to the leadership questions until the National head officers pull their thumbs out of their asses, forget about the rhetoric, and join the 21st century instead of keeping with a 19th century model.
If anyone is reading feel free to email for more information.
And for a fee I'll redesign your leadership manuals.
Disclaimer: I know that a couple nationals are actually taking some steps in this direction. So that should cover for the very few who are actually taking positive action, and for the very many that believe their own rhetoric and think they are rectifying the situation.
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