Recruitment Help!!!!

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by ASUADPi

While 6 is great, I see the OP's concern. I came from a chapter that struggled with numbers and eventually closed. (They did recolonize, but the was prearranged with our closing). As much as you want to be excited about the 6, when your charter is up in the air (which when a chapter is struggling and possibly has been struggling for a while that is probably going to be a question from HQ, "should we keep this chapter?"), you can't help but be worried and say things "crap that other chapter got 25". Because you are all competing for the same PNM's.

I understand being concerned, but what does worrying and being all "OMG XYZ got 25 girls and we only got 6" do for you?

Nothing. It just discourages you and makes you not want to even try.

Same with thinking "OMG we're going to lose our charter" all the time. Just makes you sad and makes you want to give up.

The point I was trying to make was not that you should just be cool with getting 6 girls and stop trying, but you have to think positively and take actions toward improvement.

Think "ok, we have 6, and that is 6 more than zero. If we got 6, we can easily get 6 more. What can we take from this that can help us improve and translate into more effective recruitment?"

I've been in the situation of having less than ideal numbers and having to work hard.

Bemoaning the number of girls you get and counting the number of girls everyone else gets doesn't contribute to that.

[LadyLion4Life]

I just wanted to say that we do actually have a Recruitment Committee with 5 women that I head up, but it is hard to get these women to be hardcore recruiters as well. One of the reasons for this is because the PR chair is on my committee and she is slightly negative sometimes. Another is because the old Recruitment chair is on my committee and I think she is just sick of the position. The other three girls are very enthusiastic about recruiting. It is a hard committee to work with sometimes because the other three girls are new and don't know how things are run yet.