It takes less effort to let water run downhill than it does to make it run uphill. -- Will Rogers

There are two types of alumni - those who are already and those who aren't yet. -- Me

Continued Alumni Development Your Objectives for This Session
At the end of this session, you should:

• Know what continued alumni development means
• Believe continued alumni development important
• Understand how to create a program for continued alumni development

• What is continued alumni development?
• What's the point? Why would we want it?

• Like an engineering problem, you must start out by defining the "problem" to be solved.
• Every chapter's situation will be different
• In defining the problem, start by thinking of what you want at the end

• What might a Brother want to know?
  • Knowledge?
  • Skills?
  • Abilities?
  • Attitudes?
• Why would he want this? How do you know?

• Where else can he get what we plan to give?
• What knowledge, skills, abilities do we need to deliver on the objectives?
  • Do we have them?
  • Can we get the ones we don't have?
• Can alumni devote the time program requires?

• How can you deliver on the objectives? (methods)
• Of the options, which ways are best?

• How do we define the "end?"
  • intermediate "end" points
  • final "end" point
• How do you identify if you are a success at the "end?"

• Okay, this stuff is only useful if you can really apply it - so let's give it a shot.
• Split into groups
• Create a one-faceted (I, S, P) program for a one year period

From a presentation by Tim Eiler at Triangle Fraternity's Herbert F. Scobie Leadership School, August 1998.

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