Advisors Meeting

FALL 2010

Advisors Meeting

AGENDA

I. Welcome and introductions

II. New Vision and tagline for the office

III. Alcohol issues

IV. General business items

V. Wrap-up

AGENDA

I. Welcome and introductions

II. New Vision and tagline for the office

III. Alcohol issues

IV. General business items

V. Wrap-up

New Vision and Tagline

The vision for DFSL: a community that lives by the values upon with fraternities and sororities were founded.

Our new tagline: We’re all about values.

Show Simon Sinek video

The Dilemma …

Should we be focusing our time on helping students understand the big picture or should we be focusing our time on addressing the issues?

The Solution…

Both. We need to help our students understand the importance of vision, strategy and tactics; they need to understand how the Golden Circle applies to the chapter.

The Question…

Why do fraternities & sororities exist?

The Golden Circle

WHY

WHAT

HOW

Take Aways…

WHY: What is your purpose? Your cause? Your belief? Why do you get out of bed in the morning? Why should anyone care? (are we relevant?)

For DFSL: Our PURPOSE is to make men better men and women better

women Our CAUSE is to develop values-based organizations We BELIEVE that fraternities and sororities have the

responsibility to live by their founding values

Driving Questions…

What is your WHY?

The PURPOSE of my organization is to…

The CAUSE of my organization is to…

I BELIEVE my organization will…

Take Aways… (continued)

People don’t buy what you do they buy why you do it

The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have, the goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe

If you don’t know why you do what you do, how will you ever get people to be loyal and want to be a part of what it is that you do?

Take Aways… (continued)

The goal is not just to hire (recruit) people who need a job (to join a student organization), it’s to hire (recruit) people who believe what you believe

If you talk about what you believe than you will attract those who believe what you believe

People don’t buy what you do they buy why you do it and what you do simply serves as the proof of what you believe

Take Aways… (continued)

It is those who start with why who have the ability to inspire those around them.What you do simply serves as the proof of what you

believe!

Review of why DFSL does our work:

Our PURPOSE is to make men better men and women better women

Our CAUSE is to develop values-based organizations

We BELIEVE that fraternities and sororities have the responsibility to live by their founding values

Small Group Discussion

Why does your organization exist? What is its purpose?

What do you believe about your organization? What responsibilities do you have to your members?

What are the core values of your organization? Are they consistent with the things the members value?

Overarching Discussion

Do you understand that if you swore an oath to strive to live by the founding values of your organization, then we will demand that you support the pursuit of a community that lives by their founding values!?!

We’re all about values!

Your role…

Whether you are chapter president or chapter advisor…

You should be prepared to breath life into the Vision

When we say “We’re all about values!” what does that mean?

Which values?

Examples of observed values:

ScholarshipLeadershipCommunity ServiceSocialNetworkingLifetime CommitmentAthletics

LegaciesLoyaltyEnrichmentCommunityExcellenceIntegrityDuty

Honor

Brotherhood & SisterhoodFriendshipPhilanthropyRespectTrust

Examples of founding values:

HazingAlcohol AbuseDrug AbuseSexual Assault

FightingConformity PromiscuityAnti-intellectual

Party-centric

What You Can Do

Take a few minutes and think of examples of personal stories that depict how one of the founding values played out for you.

Why is it important for you to bring the founding values of your chapter to life?

What makes MLK’s speech so powerful?

The Golden Circle

WHY

WHAT

HOW

How

The how for DFSL is based in student development theory

Discuss the book Escaping the Endless Adolescence

What is meant by the term “scaffolding?” Helping students become adults Helping men become better men and women better women

The Zone of Proximal Development

Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development

It is the distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined by through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers

Examples?

Our Guiding Philosophy

Our Guiding Philosophy: Values Congruence Individual Responsibility Peer Accountability Interconnectedness You have a choice/decision Have fun doing it

The Guiding Philosophy informs everything we do in DFSL

Examples

What are examples of how you make men better men and women better women?

Hazing example of developing brotherhood/sisterhood

Do you see the difference between WHY and HOW?

The Golden Circle

WHY

WHAT

HOW

What…

We’ve talked about why our organizations exist and how we make men better men and women better women; now let’s talk about what we do

What is the difference between how and what?

Why is what we do important?

What we do is important because…

What you do serves as proof of what you believe. If we followed the members of your organization around for one week, would their actions support the values upon which fraternities and sororities were founded?

Don’t let the members dictate what you are doing as an advisor

We should be developing global leadersFocusing on the issues and always wanting to talk

about the issues is an example of What you are doing, not Why or How

AGENDA

I. Welcome and introductions

II. New Vision and tagline for the office

III. Alcohol issues

IV. General business items

V. Wrap-up

ALCOHOL ISSUES

Outside the Classroom presentation

Recruitment/intake with alcohol

Student alcohol task force

We need your help!

Alcohol Edu at Maryland

GO THROUGH OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM SLIDES

ALCOHOL ISSUES

Outside the Classroom presentation

Recruitment/intake with alcohol

Student alcohol task force

We need your help!

AGENDA

I. Welcome and introductions

II. New Vision and tagline for the office

III. Alcohol issues

IV. General business items

V. Wrap-up

GENERAL BUSINESS ITEMS

Update on new staff Corin Gioia, Assistant Director President Loh, University President Chief Mitchell, Chief of Police Kevin Anderson, Athletic Director New PHC/UGC Advisor

New Website – thanks to Bob Nichols and Stephen Kushner Spring Grades Hazing

Increase Severity Common types Removed TEP’s recognition

Order of Omega Walkway Compliance with minimum expectations and coming prepared for

Annual Meetings (think Golden Circle)

AGENDA

I. Welcome and introductions

II. New Vision and tagline for the office

III. Alcohol issues

IV. General business items

V. Wrap-up

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