Day Two NGLA13

I started out the day Friday with RBC (Recruitment Boot Camp) 10 Push ups; 10 steps to successful recruitment. This was an interesting session because they started out by establishing there are 3 groups of potential markets on every campus. 10-20% are always joiners and will seek out Greek life and try to pledge with little to no effort put forth by the fraternity, there is 10-20% never joiners who despite what you offer or preach to them they will never go Greek, and then there is 60-80% maybe joiners. This maybe joiners is where we need to use our resources. Maybe-people are the average run of the mill person with their struggles and challenges and when they learn the truth about Greek they will warm up to Greek life and potentially become joiners. RBC went on to explain the differences between Rush and Recruitment and they stated that when recruiting you must build a relationship first and your chapter second. They broke it down to 5 easy steps for successful recruitment; 1. Meet them, 2. Make them your friend, 3. Introduce them to your friends, 4. Introduce them to your organization, 5. Ask them to join your organization. This may sound lengthy but my notes went on to another page from this session alone, really informational and helpful with building a better recruitment process. The second session I went to on Friday was put on by Rise Partnerships and was focused on motivation. They started out by having us list our own jobs duties and then think about how different things would be if you were to delegate out all your responsibilities. From there they bridged they gap and reminded us that to motivate people you have to give them tasks to succeed with and that delegation of your duties isn't a bad thing. The Rise Partnership team went on to explain the differences between Theory X(People are heritable lazy and...) and Theory Y(People are inheritable good and seek responsibility and...). They said that the first step of motivating members is to know both their strengths and their struggles. Once you know those you can use them to give responsibilities and motivate individuals based on their unique characteristics. Keeping with the theme of the day of motivation, the session after my tuna fish sandwich lunch(its a Friday in lent) was entitled Motivating the Middle. This session followed the PIKE I theory, where there is 3 groups of individuals in your organization. The top third; always motivated, hardworking, often taking on as many responsibilities as possible, the middle third; these members care about balance and relationships, and dislike drama and negativity and then there is the bottom third; the group who when they show up, do nothing but argue, these members do not like rules or authority. This sessions went on and broke up ways to specifically motivate each group and stated that to cause change you must motivate the middle third. After a long informative day, we headed to Black-Bear-Saloon where we were thoroughly harassed by a washed up radio DJ who was working as a bubble hockey commentator; a prime example of why you should stay in school. Jen and I split some spin-dip then I got a veggie burger(once again Friday in Lent). Dylan picked up the tab and we went outside. The night was cold, so cold that.. Saddie sat on the ground, and I may or may have not suggested that a group cuddle may keep us warm. Came back to the hotel put off my blog, rode a bull, dominated catch phrase and went to bed a proud BEAR.