Leading to achieving
Second semester of my junior year at Texas A&M, I was chosen for the task of Executive Recruitment Chair for my fraternity. This job in itself is probably one of the most stressful that could be assigned. There is much expected of the recruitment committee, it is the single most important aspect of a fraternity’s semester.
The job at hand was to recruit the most, best men that were available, in the fields of scholars, leaders, athletes, and gentlemen. I was assigned that task along with the responsibility of leading a 110-man chapter in the recruitment process. I can imagine that managing 110 people at a service project that were willing to help would be hard, so going into this position I knew that managing 110 fraternity men that are not wanting to do much, because this wasn’t as high on their list of priorities, would be even more difficult.
I created a system. Failure wasn’t an option, so organization would be imperative. The first thing that I realized needed to be in place way in advance would be a schedule, something for the men of the fraternity to be able to look at and get excited about. Once that was out and released I needed positions that would get at least 10 hardworking guys into significant roles to where they felt some responsibility. I created a list of jobs and guys that could do them and sat down with all of the men individually and let them know what it was that would be expected of them. The positions were filled and the men were at work.
Right around January 15th of that semester the national organization for the fraternity has a national recruitment conference in Memphis, Tennessee. I attended the meeting and listened to many lectures about what the national organization expects of its recruitment seasons. The best thing that I learned was that recruitment is all about friendly confidence, which to me means that your guys look professional and proud, but are also the guys you would want to hangout with on the weekend. I knew that was what the fraternity needed, confidence with a friendly smile behind it.
When I got back to Texas I held my own one night recruitment conference with the chapter. The topic of discussion was how to be confident even when you are not, we discussed this heavily because young freshmen would be coming to these events looking to meet examples of who they want to be in 3 years. Nobody wants to see someone who is unconfident and quite as an example of their future. I believe that this was a key factor in the fraternity doing well during this recruitment season.
At the end of recruitment we ended up drawing in 23 new members, which was the most out of every Intra-Fraternal Council Chapter on campus. The achiever inside of me felt great to have come out with the largest pledge class. I learned about how just being confident and on top of your game can pay off. All men need is a reason to believe that they can do something, then they will begin to put their heads together and work with substantial effort to achieve something great. This is a lesson that I have applied to every aspect of my life. As stated in my personal brand statement,"I do every task that is put in front of me with full confidence and open honesty".
The job at hand was to recruit the most, best men that were available, in the fields of scholars, leaders, athletes, and gentlemen. I was assigned that task along with the responsibility of leading a 110-man chapter in the recruitment process. I can imagine that managing 110 people at a service project that were willing to help would be hard, so going into this position I knew that managing 110 fraternity men that are not wanting to do much, because this wasn’t as high on their list of priorities, would be even more difficult.
I created a system. Failure wasn’t an option, so organization would be imperative. The first thing that I realized needed to be in place way in advance would be a schedule, something for the men of the fraternity to be able to look at and get excited about. Once that was out and released I needed positions that would get at least 10 hardworking guys into significant roles to where they felt some responsibility. I created a list of jobs and guys that could do them and sat down with all of the men individually and let them know what it was that would be expected of them. The positions were filled and the men were at work.
Right around January 15th of that semester the national organization for the fraternity has a national recruitment conference in Memphis, Tennessee. I attended the meeting and listened to many lectures about what the national organization expects of its recruitment seasons. The best thing that I learned was that recruitment is all about friendly confidence, which to me means that your guys look professional and proud, but are also the guys you would want to hangout with on the weekend. I knew that was what the fraternity needed, confidence with a friendly smile behind it.
When I got back to Texas I held my own one night recruitment conference with the chapter. The topic of discussion was how to be confident even when you are not, we discussed this heavily because young freshmen would be coming to these events looking to meet examples of who they want to be in 3 years. Nobody wants to see someone who is unconfident and quite as an example of their future. I believe that this was a key factor in the fraternity doing well during this recruitment season.
At the end of recruitment we ended up drawing in 23 new members, which was the most out of every Intra-Fraternal Council Chapter on campus. The achiever inside of me felt great to have come out with the largest pledge class. I learned about how just being confident and on top of your game can pay off. All men need is a reason to believe that they can do something, then they will begin to put their heads together and work with substantial effort to achieve something great. This is a lesson that I have applied to every aspect of my life. As stated in my personal brand statement,"I do every task that is put in front of me with full confidence and open honesty".