Informal Recruitment

[adpiucf]

I also wanted to suggest that COR is only as good as the members can make it. If you include the members in the planning, ideas and execution, they may be more open to participation because it was "their" idea, too.

Appoint a COR member at large from each pledge class to rally their pledge sisters to get names for you to create a master invite list.

Form a COR committee. Maybe you can break the chapter up into COR "Teams" and incentivize them to bring in new members... maybe a contest to see which team can hold the most small events (ie: going out for ice cream with PNM's, tv night participation, participation at all-chapter COR events), etc.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by adpiucf

Form a COR committee. Maybe you can break the chapter up into COR "Teams" and incentivize them to bring in new members... maybe a contest to see which team can hold the most small events (ie: going out for ice cream with PNM's, tv night participation, participation at all-chapter COR events), etc.

This is a good idea, BUT....

make sure all the teams are working together toward a cohesive goal. Sometimes the different teams have very different ideas of what and who they want, to the point that the people team A is attracting are those that team B doesn't want to talk to, let alone bid.

That brings up another point. If you have a member who keeps asking back their roommate who no one else can stand, take her aside and have a talk with her. There are people who need time to warm up to a group and vice versa...and then there are people who no matter how much you bring them around, will never fit in.