Tips for getting elected recruitment chair for a weak recruiting chapter?

[FSUZeta]

If you feel that the other greek chapters talk badly about your chapter, kill them with kindness. Bake cookies for each chapter to welcome them back to school, "The sisters of ABC welcome the sisters of EF back to campus. Here's to a great year,". Send them a written note of congratulations when appropriate:" Congratulations to the women of GHI on winning Homecoming Sweepstakes. Your float design was so creative and your school spirit was inspiring. Sincerely, the sisters of ABC." Send congratulations on their chapter anniversary and their founders' day.

Support others' philanthropies. Make sure they know you all are supporting them.

If you have sorority houses where meals are served, perhaps you could initiate an exchange dinner program. On a designated night "x" number of ABCs go to the YZ house and the same number of YZs go to the ABC house. You have designated sisters in the foyer to greet the YZs. Treat it as a rush event. (The chapter members can hone their rush skills) Your goal is to show the YZs what a great sisterhood you have and how happy you are to get to know them. This is done once a month. It is a great way for the sororities to get to know one another outside of competitions. If you don't have houses, your sorority could plan a sisterhood event with another chapter. Do one every month with a different chapter.

Make it hard for them to say unkind things about your chapter.

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

If you feel that the other greek chapters talk badly about your chapter, kill them with kindness. Bake cookies for each chapter to welcome them back to school, "The sisters of ABC welcome the sisters of EF back to campus. Here's to a great year,". Send them a written note of congratulations when appropriate:" Congratulations to the women of GHI on winning Homecoming Sweepstakes. Your float design was so creative and your school spirit was inspiring. Sincerely, the sisters of ABC." Send congratulations on their chapter anniversary and their founders' day.

This^^ is excellent advice. Be the chapter that sends positivity out there. One of the chapters in my organization is great with twitter. They routinely congratulate other chapters on awards, wish them a happy founder's day, retweet philanthropy events on campus. They wish everyone good luck on finals. They RT any mentions they get from other chapters.

They also use instagram for promoting the chapter. Look to other chapters in your national organization to see what they do. I am sure there are some excellent examples within your own organization.

[33girl]

If you end up with more PNMs at the first rounds of parties than you have sisters, do NOT assign 2-3 PNMs to talk to one sister. We get complaints about this on GC all the time from women going through rush - there's usually one PNM who dominates the conversation and the other two are left out, so you have 2 bad things happening: PNMs feel left out and sisters don't get to talk to PNMs. Instead, keep sisters in groups of 3 and bring 4-5 PNMs to the conversation. The sisters need to keep on point with making sure all PNMs are included - and it's easier for 3 sisters to do this than just one.

[sisterlylove]

Originally Posted by 33girl

If you end up with more PNMs at the first rounds of parties than you have sisters, do NOT assign 2-3 PNMs to talk to one sister. We get complaints about this on GC all the time from women going through rush - there's usually one PNM who dominates the conversation and the other two are left out, so you have 2 bad things happening: PNMs feel left out and sisters don't get to talk to PNMs. Instead, keep sisters in groups of 3 and bring 4-5 PNMs to the conversation. The sisters need to keep on point with making sure all PNMs are included - and it's easier for 3 sisters to do this than just one.

We usually avoid this! It happened with two sisters during one round this year and that was it- I totally agree, it doesn't work. I like the idea of doing group conversations because we do that during informal and it's more comfortable (although that's only 1 PNM to 3-5 girls, not 2-3 PNMs to 3-5 girls)

[33girl]

Be careful with having too many sisters talking to only one PNM because that can be considered hot boxing and dirty rush.

[sisterlylove]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

If you feel that the other greek chapters talk badly about your chapter, kill them with kindness. Bake cookies for each chapter to welcome them back to school, "The sisters of ABC welcome the sisters of EF back to campus. Here's to a great year,". Send them a written note of congratulations when appropriate:" Congratulations to the women of GHI on winning Homecoming Sweepstakes. Your float design was so creative and your school spirit was inspiring. Sincerely, the sisters of ABC." Send congratulations on their chapter anniversary and their founders' day.

Support others' philanthropies. Make sure they know you all are supporting them.

If you have sorority houses where meals are served, perhaps you could initiate an exchange dinner program. On a designated night "x" number of ABCs go to the YZ house and the same number of YZs go to the ABC house. You have designated sisters in the foyer to greet the YZs. Treat it as a rush event. (The chapter members can hone their rush skills) Your goal is to show the YZs what a great sisterhood you have and how happy you are to get to know them. This is done once a month. It is a great way for the sororities to get to know one another outside of competitions. If you don't have houses, your sorority could plan a sisterhood event with another chapter. Do one every month with a different chapter.

Make it hard for them to say unkind things about your chapter.

I am not sure if things like the cookies happen because that is up to the girls who live in the house (there are 6 of them), but I THINK that happens currently so that's good! I don't know how much it's doing though. As far as I have heard people think we're really nice, but they think that we're weird and give bids to everyone who wants one.

We had an issue with philanthropies this year being on the same day but I am on Panhellenic and our VP of communication is trying to fix that. She wants to make a calendar that will have everyone's events because this semester, three sororities had events on the same day (ours being one of them so none of our girls could attend the other ones)

I am sisterhood chair of panhellenic and I started a thing called chapter-to-chapter bonds. Each semester, every sorority is assigned to another sorority and they must have a social together. I got really good feedback from this so hopefully when we do it again we'll keep creating better relationships with the other sororities! We do have houses but they aren't like in the south where there is a chef and everything- it's only slightly fancier than regular campus housing.

This is definitely great advice- I'll keep working on it