[20160] in APO-L
Re: officer transition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sarahlynn Lester)
Wed Feb 10 15:27:12 1999
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:27:53 -0800
Reply-To: Sarahlynn Lester <splester@YAHOO.COM>
From: Sarahlynn Lester <splester@YAHOO.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Amy,
I'm sure that you've already thought of this idea, but one thing I've
seen in several chapters is the "binder system."
Each office has a large three-ring binder containing all the important
"documents" for that office. This might include: the national
guidelines for the office, letters from previous officers, lists of
previous responsibilities, events, etc. relating to that office, and
commentary.
As the semester progresses, each new officer adds to the binder, then
passes it along to the following semester's officer. This way, each
new officer has semesters of wisdom behind her.
Another thing I've seen (at Alpha Phi Chapter - Washington University
in St. Louis) is a formal transition, where members of the outgoing
and incoming exec boards meet together for a leadership retreat led by
someone from the office of student affairs (or similar) and then break
up into smaller groups to transition officer to officer (like outgoing
President to incoming President).
Good Luck!
YiLFS,
--Sarahlynn
Section 49 Communications Chair
---Amy C Masters <acmast01@ATHENA.LOUISVILLE.EDU> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am trying to help one of my chapters implement an officer transition
> program-- they have high turnover, and usually end up reinventing the
> wheel every year. What I am looking for is information that I can
give
> them to put into modules for each officer (or to steal ideas from
;), and
> I'd like to have something to give them besides the usual stuff,
like the
> leadership index, survival guide, etc. Does anyone out there have
> anything I can use, or know of a chapter I can contact for this? Their
> officers include a president, service vp, membership vp/pledge
educator,
> social chair, secretary, historian, fundraising chair, treasurer, and
> parliamentarian. Anything you can send me would be helpful--
> chapter-designed modules, seminar summaries, web references, useful
> literature...
>
> Or if you just have words of wisdom for me on this, that would also be
> appreciated. =) Thanks in advance, and apologies to those who get
this
> twice because of the X-post.
>
> YiLFS, Amy Masters
> Section 67 chair.
>
> PS: If you only have hard copy, please respond to me privately so I
can
> give you my address. I'll even pay postage.
>
==
everyone has a skeleton/
and a closet to keep it in/
and you're mine/
every song has a you/
a you the singer sings to/
and you're it this time/baby, you're it this time
--ani difranco, dilate
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