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For some reason this was a huge problem for my chapter this semester. More than the usual number of officers seemed to have been totally confused about what their exact obligations were. One thing my chapter does is we have manuals for the different offices that lays out what they are supposed to do. Unfortunately, a lot of the manuals are out of date or non-existent, but they are very useful for transferring knowledge when they are up-to-date; if your chapter doesn’t do this, that might be a useful way to make some of the knowledge transferal stick. (Of course, it only works if the people actually read their manuals! But still).
One thing I really hate about this season is seeing certain people continuously shut out of holding offices. In some cases, its really because that person shouldn’t be holding an office, but sometimes great people just get over looked, even in my small chapter. For instance, there is one girl who is FABULOUS – very organized, very committed, and has done a good job at offices in the past. But she’s kind of a quiet, unassuming awesome, and suffers from “always the bridesmaid” syndrome. Basically everyone thinks she would be great as an officer, but for any individual office there is always someone people are more excited about, and everyone assumes this one girl will end up with some other office. But last semester she ended up not getting elected to anything, and I’m afraid it will happen again this semester! It breaks my heart (not to mention, I think she’d do a really great job and could bloom into a real leader of the chapter).
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