I attended a lot of workshops this afternoon—all of which were designed to help chapter officers and advisors improve recruitment, visibility and members’ experience.

At the work, “Don’t just lead a binder, leave a legacy” Alicia (one of our member experience managers) and Lauren (who is a SA) led an idea- generating workshop about improving member turnout, and setting and implementing goals for individual chapters.

Later in the day, Andrea (the director of outreach) and Stephanie (also an SA) led a workshop on the NSCS class of 2008, and ways to increase membership.

Here are some tips that both workshops had, about increasing recruitment and/ or involvement:

Ideas that people had for various events:

• Doing a social event before the induction ceremony to get inductees excited about the ceremony.
• Giving people stars (gold, silver, bronze for attending meetings).
• Holding raffles for those who attend meetings so that they can win prizes.
  Get involved in Freshman Orientation week—wear your NSCS T-shirts as you work, so that freshmen see NSCS on campus. Decorating the dorm room doors of people who’ve joined:
• –working with advisor, stay in contact with your Registrar.
• End-of-the-year party where members could bring non-member friends.
• Facebook ads.
• Using facebook to promote community service events.
• Invite your academic advisors to NSCS induction—so that they know about NSCS and can answer questions from other students. Also invite representatives from the honors college/ department.
• Help create a homecoming float.
• Work with the student activities office.

Gratuitious workshop images:

Alicia and Lauren.

Stephanie and Andrea are in there, I promise. I just can’t guarantee picture quality, or you know, zoom.

Proof that I was working. I typed everything in word docs, and then did a cut and paste job later.

This is us in the office space we have for the Summit/ Convention

Below: a picture of Lindsay, Senta and Andrea. You may recall that in an earlier post I was leery of posting a picture of Andrea, lest I get in her bad books. Well, I’ve thrown caution to the wind (also: she OKed it). Andrea’s the director of outreach. Senta is the manager of strategic partnerships. Lindsay is the director of partnerships and advisor outreach. I think these pictures look very facebook, don’t you?

Below, the registration desk, in a quieter moment. This is where we hand people the tote bags and other items. Yes, the tote bags in the prior entry.