Last Day of NGLA :(

Today was our last day at NGLA! Over the course of the weekend, there has been so much information packed into the different speakers, educational sessions and even lunch conversations. Just meeting with a few AST sisters today, I learned a lot about the different ways that they do things within their chapter as we compared things such as recruitment tactics, positions, etc. I love talking to sisters from my own organization because there is a huge sense of community present among us all. We all follow the same values, we all wear the same badge and we all live by the missions and purposes of our sorority. Having that all in common made it much more meaningful and significant to talk to fellow sisters. 

On the other hand, some of the sessions I went to today were unbelieveable. I went to two sessions with speaker Sara Lowery. Sara brings so much passion and energy into every room that she enters while still keeping the conversation professional and to the point. One of the sessions I went to was called "Will Work For Leadership" which was all about how to ask our members to do things for us. The thing that stood out to me in that session was when she began explaining how to announce things to your chapter. Sara focused on the "why" behind everything. For example thinking about what is the purpose of going to this event or meeting and relating that back to your mission statement. When we are in Greek life we can forget very easily that the letters we wear hold behind them values from founders that were brothers and sisters hundreds of years ago. As a member of Greek life, we need to stand by these values in everything that we do including supporting each other's events. With this information, I plan to make my announcements in chapter much more passionate and worthwhile so that it's not just a list of dates and times.