I had various leadership experiences while in high school and on sports teams growing up, but nothing too extensive. The first real leadership experience I ever had was taking over as the Recruitment Chair (now VP of Recruitment and Outreach) for the Chapter. My Big Sister had the position before me. When she took over, our chapter didn't even have a Recruitment Binder anymore. Needless to say, our Recruitment up until that point had been a joke.
Bri (my Big Sister) did everything she could to reform the Recruitment process, but there is only so much one person can do when basically starting from scratch while in a chapter of eight people. She sort of took me under her wing and trained me on the position and showed me everything she envisioned for the chapter before I completely took over.
It was game on when did I took over though. We started doing get-togethers with other fraternal organizations and engineering related organizations to help get our name out there, we became more involved within PHA, and we completely restructured how we marketed the chapter as a whole. The change didn't happen overnight, but gradually people and organizations started to recognize our presence on campus. The quarter I gave over the reigns as Recruitment Chair and became President was the quarter we were able to say our membership was doubled in a year's time.
I can easily see the Social Change Model working in this example. My chapter had a common purpose (save our chapter and get the Phi Sigma Rho name known), we collaborated with other organizations, we most definitely had commitment, and I wouldn't have been able to facilitate this change within my chapter without consciousness of self.
Bri (my Big Sister) did everything she could to reform the Recruitment process, but there is only so much one person can do when basically starting from scratch while in a chapter of eight people. She sort of took me under her wing and trained me on the position and showed me everything she envisioned for the chapter before I completely took over.
It was game on when did I took over though. We started doing get-togethers with other fraternal organizations and engineering related organizations to help get our name out there, we became more involved within PHA, and we completely restructured how we marketed the chapter as a whole. The change didn't happen overnight, but gradually people and organizations started to recognize our presence on campus. The quarter I gave over the reigns as Recruitment Chair and became President was the quarter we were able to say our membership was doubled in a year's time.
I can easily see the Social Change Model working in this example. My chapter had a common purpose (save our chapter and get the Phi Sigma Rho name known), we collaborated with other organizations, we most definitely had commitment, and I wouldn't have been able to facilitate this change within my chapter without consciousness of self.
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