After weeks of preparation, days of interviews, and countless hours talking about your organization, you're finally ready to welcome your new members. Your initiation should be exciting, memorable, and should build a sense of camaraderie. A successful initiation will create a strong buy-in from your new members resulting in future dedication and team spirit.
Hazing is irresponsible and abhorrent. It should be avoided at all costs.
Tryouts are a vital part of the recruiting process that let's you select the candidates who are most qualified for and interested in your organization. Your tryouts should thus test both the skills and cultural fit of your prospective applicants.
The information session is the first opportunity for your organization to introduce itself to prospective members. It should be succinct and persuasive, highlighting your core goals and best features.
In an ideal organization, all members would be intrinsically motivated and would go above and beyond the call of duty. To accomplish this, you must learn how to wield intrinsic and extrinsic motivators.
If emotional intelligence is considered a "soft" skill, then body language is the "hard" data points that you will use to interpret a person's mood. Master the interpretation of body language and you will be better able to understand a person's behavior and motivations.
Teen Institutes that are serious about fighting the opioid epidemic need to adopt major reforms to combat the opioid epidemic. As a leader in the teen institute space with over a decade of experience, I know that this is our fight. We must rise to meet it.
Welcome to Thoughts! This new section will contain editorials related to student leadership and student leadership organizations.
I stood up to the CEO of a Fortune 500 company because I believe in equality of opportunity. In that moment, I shifted the values of the company. We must fight for inclusion and diversity in student organizations, because the values we promote in college may shift the values of America.
Emotional intelligence relies on your understanding of your member's emotional baselines. How you react to deviations in these baselines will influence your results.
The Advanced Toolkit will teach you how to manage your people including topics on emotional intelligence, personalities, and motivations.
The activities fair is your single best opportunity to attract new talent into your organization.
Recruiting is a vital part of your role as leader of your organization as it ensures the continuity and quality of your group. Your first tool for effective recruitment is an active website.
The best fund-raising events are well planned, efficiently executed, and provide value to your donors.
