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

Fraternities and sororities must operate as a company first, and a socialite ελλαδα ειδησεισ σημεραsecond to be able to be successful. I want to indicate some key concepts that report the relation between Greek organizations and businesses.

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

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

As president, I see all sides of managing a Greek organization and must help every officer no real matter what team her position is just a part of. My days are full of 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 response to everyone's questions and concerns while problem solving when an unplanned event takes place. For example, we'd a tiny crisis with flyers that were made to promote an event we were having. Once they came in, we noticed the contact email on the flyers was spelled wrong. After some deliberation, we made a decision to use the flyers we'd and made a fresh email with the typo included.

An enormous element of owning a successful organization is effective and professional communication. Our main forum of communication between officers and the advisory board is emailing. I have learned just how to properly send and react to emails in a professional manner. My communication skills have improved substantially since being fully a leader of my chapter. I have discovered to communicate concisely and format information in the utmost effective way. I have discovered providing information in bullet lists is the best way to get members to learn messages fully. All of our officers must hold team meetings and get reports of progress in the different areas on the team. Officers are in charge of 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 most valuable traits that I am still learning through my presidency, is ways to get confident with hard conversations. I work closely with this Director of Standards and Ethics to be sure our members are holding themselves to your high ideals and values. When someone is falling behind, it's our job to have conversations using them about why this is happening and what we can do to make sure it 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 learning to have these hard conversations while residing in control of myself and the conversation.

Greek life has a lot more to provide compared to social facet of the corporation, and can truly prepare adults to join the professional world. Through developing members personally, and developing officers professionally, Greek organizations could possibly offer life-changing collegiate experiences that can't be found elsewhere.