5 Goals for New Sorority Officers
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Let's see how creating goals for your position and chapter can help set you up for success.
Being an officer in a sorority can be tough. You need to manage sister expectations, deal with your council, work with advisors, and more, all while feeling like you are being watched under a microscope. Many officers get stressed while feeling the weight of the position. But, by following these steps, you can ensure that you meet all your goals as an officer!
Create Specific Goals
When making goals as an officer for your sorority, you need to make sure that your goals are as specific as possible. Stating that you want to improve your chapter is great, but that is too broad of a goal, and it may lead to you feeling burnt out or hopeless. You are better off making multiple, more specific goals to ensure that you know what to focus on.
Make Your Goals Measurable
Similar to the previous example, trying to improve sister happiness is a very notable goal, but very difficult to measure. Sure, you could send out a questionnaire to the sisterhood at the beginning and end of the semester, but it would be hard to equate the results with your actions. Instead, try setting a more measurable goal, such as increasing sisterhood event participation by 25%.
Be Realistic
Similar to your goals needing to be specific and measurable, a goal that is not realistic can lead to burnout or increase sister dissatisfaction. A great goal is realistic, such as increasing average sister volunteer hours by 20-40%.
Example Goals
1. Raise your overall chapter GPA by 0.5 within 1 year
2. Improve member retention by 5% for the new member class
3. Increase average sister volunteer hours by 2 this semester
4. Gain 20% more traction on Instagram this recruitment year
5. Lower honor board meetings by 50% within 2 years
Evaluate & Reflect
Once you have hit the deadline for your goals, you and other chapter officers should get together and reflect on how the chapter as performed. While doing so, make sure to not point fingers at direct incidents or sisters, as most goals are either hit or missed by a collective list of actions or events, not a specific situation or two.
From here, reflecting on the results can help you and other officers decide what can be done in the future to either make your goals more specific, more realistic, easier to measure, or have a better plan for achieving said goals.
Conclusion
Hopefully you have learned some more about how to set solid goals for your chapter. If you need help with your goals, consider using Greek Connect. You can use it to track sister attendance at events, send out questionnaires share files with sisters, or even track philanthropy hours. If you are interested in learning more about Greek Connect or to receive more advice on how to improve your chapter, check out some similar posts below!
