Chapter Meetings:

Theta Epsilon Section 50 Conference

Brother Loyalty

How can Theta Epsilon systematically improve for our

active brothers?

Time Management in Chapter:

First Chapter Meeting: Set Universal & Individual Goals

Once a Month: Committee Meetings

& Provide Printed Agenda Closing the Semester:

Create Evaluation to Receive Feedback

Our actives must be engaged

so they can collaborate!

Building an Active Program As an active member of Theta Epsilon, what has changed for you since you have been initiated into the chapter? Maybe you have made close friendships with your fellow brothers, or you have even completed more that one hundred service hours! Now is the time to evaluate your APO experience and ask yourself what else am I looking for within the Theta Epsilon Chapter?

Set Goals Track Progress Ask brothers to contribute ideas for their committees and seek resources to enhance them.

Evaluate Officers shall evaluate the progress of each committee member so they can make improvements.

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All brothers should compose their own goals to initiate skill development within service.

Potential Programs:

-Newly Active Mentor Program

-Educate Actives: Jeopardy

-Write Letter to Brother

-Committee Awards

-Goal Completion Journal

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Leadership Program:

Current Programs:

∗ Section 50 Conference ∗ LEADS Day ∗ CAPS ∗ APO Impact Live ∗ APO Classroom

∗ Ted Talks ∗ Executive Meetings ∗ Pledge Meeting ∗ MIC: Member In Charge

Many Chapters do not have a well- developed Leadership Program, so Theta Epsilon should be proud for

their successful establishment of the first cardinal APO value!

Since Theta Epsilon has created a solid infrastructure to their

Leadership Program that would be beneficial to expand upon!

Potential Programs:

∗ Leadership Value of the Week ∗ Professional Development:

Resume & Interview Seminars ∗ Working Well with Others:

Personality Identification

∗ Guest Speaker on Management vs Leadership

∗ Relationship Capital & Synergy Theory Seminar

Seek out resources from the University and other RSOs to implement programming and

build relationships.

“Do not go where a path may lead, go instead where there is

not path and leave a trail.” Ralph Emerson Poe

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Service Program:

1) Willing to Hustle a. Seek out opportunities and fulfill needs right away

2) Smart Goals a. Specific, Measurable, Action-oriented, Realistic, Timely

3) Be Honest: a. We do service because service needs to be done

4) Be Unconfortable a. It is still do-able regaurdless of how we feel about it

5) Be a Servent a. It is important to change and adapt

Five Factors of Successful Service:

List of Service Projects: -Nursing home performances, game nights, art projects, buddy program, pen pals, cards for holidays, beautification projects -Food drives at local grocery store -Girl Scout & Boy Scout badge buddies -Animal shelter dog training -Letters to soldiers -Alex’s lemonaid stand -Box city -Snow/leaf removal -Chemo-hero buddy system -Adopt a road -Pop tabs for Ronald McDonald -H.O.P.E. helping other people eat -Big Brothers, Big Sisters -Food bank preperatoin -Breadline servers -Zoo/children’s museum help -St. Baldricks Childhood Cancer Research Fund -Blood drive -River cleanup

Ask brothers to list their passions to gage where the

most interest will be for service projects.

Encourage more community members to join Theta Epsilon

in serving the campus, community and country.

How can we do the best service possible?

Train our minds to identify the needs of our

surroundings, and create projects to fulfill those

needs.

Recruitment! Publicity Is Key—Utilize the Quad—Lengthen Rush Week

Membership must create a network

Quality Flyers Professional Pictures Establish Values Meeting Information Information Booths Each building on campus Make active requirement Expand to dorms Rush Week Plan far in advance Incentives for attending events Varity of values

Marketing Strategies:

-Retrieve information from potential members and utilize it

-Give out quality information and be persuasive

Potential Events: -Waffle Night & Card Making

-Service on the Quad -Jeopardy Game Night

-Ice Cream Social -Raffle with Gift Cards

Don’t forget to mention APO is a nationally recognized,

co-ed fraternity!

Each and every brother should talk to as many people as they can about APO during recruitment. Also, we should be prepared to answer any questions that come up in conversation. It is important we tell all the people we are recruiting that they actually have the opportunity to do service with our fraternity even if they do not join, and we can always contact them about our scheduled service projects. Last but not least, utilize potential members’ contact information and share our mission.