Leadership
All members are encouraged to take a leadership position to help improve the Lodge.
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Self-Governance: As a self-governing fraternity, we are responsible for ensuring consistency in our goals and values within Chi Psi. This teaching-learning relationship is prevalent throughout the Lodge in many ways, and builds incredible leadership training. As a well-established organization, we exist with expectations and a defined structure, but at the same time, we leave it to our members to lead the fraternity in the correct direction. With many officer positions to be held, the Chi Psi experience results in incredible skill training for the future.
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Monday Meetings: Most Greek organizations on campus come together weekly for meetings; Chi Psi prefers to make this a formal affair with coat and tie as well as a formal brotherhood dinner. Run by the president, these Lodge Meetings inform members of weekly events, and offer an avenue for any and all members to address the organization as a whole.
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Campus Leadership: Chi Psi is known for having a strong presence in campus leadership. Clubs and organizations around campus that our brothers are involved in and hold leadership positions within include:
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Leadership Training
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Risk Management Training: In accordance with Chi Psi’s risk management policy, all undergraduate members participate in the Risk Management Education Program, a 5-unit training course that explains our current insurance policy, gives examples of past incidents, and shares strategies for dealing with emergency situations. Most importantly, the course educates our members on risk avoidance. Each unit caters to the specific needs of members as they progress through their undergraduate career and their post-graduate life.
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Program for Leadership Development: The Program for Leadership Development is another offered free to our members through our Central Office. Its purpose is to develop leadership and organizational skills. The day-long program familiarizes our members with different leadership styles and approaches to organizing, motivating, and directing people in a team setting
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Program for Self Development (PSD): The Program for Self Development (PSD) provides the new pledge class an opportunity to look inward and understand the importance of personal development by understanding his own personality and how to use this understanding to reach his full potential. It also teaches the benefits of goal-setting in establishing short- and long-term goals, as well as mutual assistance in being more self-disciplined in relying on one’s own ability in addition to the strengths of others. It is a weekend program meant for the incoming pledge class, conducted off campus by an alumnus facilitator provided by the National Fraternity. While identifying their primary motivational strengths and learning styles, new members learn the importance and use of peer-group feedback. They also learn the consequences of inappropriate goal-setting and ways to recover from those effects. Since the program relies on both individual and group participation, it allows the pledges to achieve a better understanding of one another.
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Conferences and Officer Training: The Rowe West Coast Regional Leadership Conference provides national experience to every attending undergraduate and offers the opportunity to meet and network with peers from other chapters to discuss common challenges and success factors.
Similarly, held annually in conjunction with the National Chi Psi Annual Convention, the Spencer Institute promotes leadership and national camaraderie. The Institute is designed for presidents, treasurers, and recruitment chairmen. The workshops offered by our Central Office, led by professional trainers and alumni volunteers, emphasize leadership development, financial responsibility, and strategic planning. |
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Alcohol Awareness Education: Through the Education, Responsibility, and Action Program (ERA), our men discuss their values and convictions and apply them toward the development of strategies to address alcohol abuse and other harmful activity. It is a values-based alcohol education program that employs a detailed discussion of Chi Psi Fraternity values to stimulate the development of responsible behavior from our men. Referencing the horrible events that took place recently on the Colorado-Boulder campus at one of our chapters, ERA goes beyond the typical ‘thou shalt not’ alcohol program by speaking to values, character, and loyalty to Brothers and peers.
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Alpha Management Retreat: The Alpha Management Retreat (AMR) is a weekend event led by a trained alumnus, and was designed to train present and future officers in effective strategic planning techniques in the fraternity, and consequently, later in life. It is a working forum in which a representative group of Chi Psi leaders discuss and design short- and long-term goals for the fraternity. Our men learn vital leadership concepts as well as how to use them to improve Chi Psi operations
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