Many may only see collegiate Greek life as a social group who hides their partying behind community service hours and charitable donations. However, I want to challenge that stereotype by emphasizing the professional development and self-improvement opportunity that's presented to Greek life members - especially people who hold leadership positions. Currently, I serve my one-hundred member sorority as chapter president and assist other officers to steadfastly keep up a well-balanced, structured, and involved organization.

Fraternities and sororities must ελλαδα ειδησεισ σημερα operate as a small business first, and a socialite second to be able to be successful. I want to point out some key concepts that show the relation between Greek organizations and businesses.

Greek organizations:
• Divide officers into teams to focus on specific regions of the chapter
• Must operate on a strict budget, fueled solely from member's dues
• Must market themselves well to be able to continue steadily to recruit new members
• Have mission statements and values to hold their members to and gear their brand
• Must follow rules from, and are accountable to, their national headquarters
• Have insurance to cover their organization and its members, in addition to many policies and procedures in place for holding events

These are just a couple of points that report how Greek organizations are ran as the ultimate business, combining friendship with professionalism and offering members a great opportunity for personal development.

As president, I see all sides of owning a Greek organization and must help every officer no real matter what team her position is just a part of. My days are filled with constantly making decisions and weighing the consequences. I have learned to make fair decisions that benefit the greater good, while remaining unbiased in the process. I also reply to everyone's questions and concerns while problem solving when an unplanned event takes place. As an example, we'd a tiny crisis with flyers that have been made to promote an event we were having. If they came in, we noticed the contact email on the flyers was spelled wrong. After some deliberation, we made a decision to utilize the flyers we had and made a fresh email with the typo included.

An enormous element of managing a successful organization works well and professional communication. Our main forum of communication between officers and the advisory board is emailing. I discovered how exactly to properly send and react to emails in a professional manner. My communication skills have improved substantially since being a leader of my chapter. I have discovered to communicate concisely and format information in the very best way. I have discovered providing information in bullet lists is the greatest way to get members to see messages fully. All of our officers must hold team meetings and get reports of progress in different areas on their team. Officers are responsible for organizing their own meetings and taking minutes to record the thing that was discussed. Greek organizations teach members to effectively and professionally communicate through emailing, holding meetings, and dealing with others.

One of the very valuable traits that I'm still learning through my presidency, is getting more comfortable with hard conversations. I work closely with our Director of Standards and Ethics to be sure our members are holding themselves to our high ideals and values. If someone is falling behind, it's our job to possess conversations together about why this really is happening and what we are able to do to make sure it generally does not happen again. These tough conversations become even tougher when remembering that the members of our chapter may also be our friends and sisters. As a leader of a Greek organization, I am understanding how to have these hard conversations while residing in control of myself and the conversation.

Greek life has much more to supply compared to social aspect of the organization, and can truly prepare young adults to participate the professional world. Through developing members personally, and developing officers professionally, Greek organizations could offer life-changing collegiate experiences that can't be found elsewhere.