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Unfortunately most of the things you would need to do you don't have the power to actually accomplish.
But if you are a real go-getter you could develop the power of influence to do it.
Rule #1. For every chapter you lose, for whatever reason, bring another chapter on campus.
This is vital. Its not only important to improve the numbers of each individual chapter, but when you lose a whole organization you lose more members of the Greek System than you are going to compensate for. Do the math.
Rule #2 Look to bring on at least one other organization of males and females each year. More in a larger system.
The only one real power Greeks have is numbers. When no new chapters come on, numbers will either stagnate or decrease. By constantly bringing on new groups you bring more and fresh people into the system
The truth is that you could start a new fraternity a year and a new sorority a semester until you ran out of students no matter how weak the system is. I have seen it.
Rule #3 Be proffessional.
What kills Greeks time and again is that we don't have a proffessional system, body of knowledge, or proffessional help to call upon to run proffessional type organizations.
So you need to find leadership consultants outside the common Greek World to show you how to perform functions better, recruit better, and just operate at a higher level.
This seems to matter less in a stronger system where the environment itself recruits for you and the activites are almost written in stone.
But I have been horrified at some of the advice and perspective given by senior national officers, greek life personel, and senior alum officers here on GC. The advice isn't generally bad per se, just at a much lower level of knowledge or proffessionalism than is good for us.
But you can tell the people mean well and care about their organizations lol.
Rule #4 Have your umbrella groups come up with resolutions adopting these expansion policies and a 5 year plan to put them in effect.
Rule # 5 Start developing more personal relationships with senior fraternity sorority leadership.
Ask that all delegates to IFC or NPC or whatever are exec board members or that the position be an exec position in the chapter (I know NPC groups already so this a lot).
Have more social informal meetings where you get together for food, ask a different chapter to host is bi-weekly. That way you guys know each other better socially and for business.
Only a fool neglects personal relationships when it comes to power.
Rule #6 Develop closer personal ties with admin.
This means more than visit them. Have each chapter agree to host weekly or whatever meetings with senior admin in Student life. Developing personal even more than proffessional relationships with these guys can make all the difference in your chapters and systems success.
Make sure its senior execs that go to these lunch/dinner meetings.
Rule # 7 Develop a comprehensive media program
It should be part of the overall Greek program to man all the media centers of the college and to make sure there are good press releases.
Rule #8 Do NOT focus on the bad stuff or try and force chapters to fly right
Its not only a waste of your time, it creates a hunted persecuted environment for Greeks.
Also, its pretty much a bad leadership practice to focus on not doing anything wriong versus doing things right.
ITs also an example of bad parenting.
There are dozens more. But the basics are to develop personal relationships and goals among Greek LEaders and Administrators and EXPAND.
A system that isn't constantly expanding is dying.
And I have to say the NPC model has to be one of the worst examples of vodoo type economics ever invented lol. Try applying that theory to the real world and we'll see why it fails on campuses.
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