Working in Teams

[adpiucf]

Collegians,

How often do you meet in your teams (ie: Financial Team, Administrative Team, Membership Education Team)?

What do you think is the value of working in teams? (ie: clarification of deadlines and goals, support for your position, having your Team Leader (like the MEVP) as a Go-To for advice, etc?)

Lastly... if your chapter doesn't utilize teams, why not? Does it make the chapter stronger to have committees and teams helping out, or does it just lessen decision making?

[ADPiSAI]

we don't use teams because with only 21 girls, we're just too small. It would defeat the purpose of assigning positions in the first place because everybody would be involved in everything, and in my chapter, that would just make things a complete mess.

[polarpi]

I believe we had teams (committees, right?) and I felt it did help us get a number of things accomplished. While we were all asked to be on (I think it was) three committees, a number of the committees didn't meet too often, and if you held a position that was a required role on a committee, you were already expecting to be meeting with your team to make sure everything was going all right.

I think this helped us make sure that everything was being taken care of. I know that when I was MEVP I was always trying to meet with my committee at least twice a month to make sure no one had any questions, and it made executive committee meetings a lot smoother because as the exec committee, we'd have reports from the other offices to present to one another without having to require those offices to be present at the exec meeting, which *reduced* the number of meetings members had to attend. We were also a smaller chapter, and with many of us taking on multiple offices, it allowed us to interact with one another in different ways that those of us who didn't hold a position or were only able to help out with a *specific* committee were not able to develop the close relationships with other sisters.