Collegiate chapter advisors play a role in shaping Tri Delta’s organizational culture. Specifically, alumna advisors (AA) role model and mentor the leaders who shape the chapter culture and role model and lead an advisory team who has its own culture – a culture that can also impact the chapter’s culture. This track focuses on exploring the alumna advisor role as a mentor to collegiate officers and committees, defining organizational culture and assessing the current cultures the alumna advisor role impacts. Additionally, alumna advisors will spend time learning about student engagement theory and how it impacts organizational culture, explore proactive versus reactive advisor culture, factors that impact organizational culture and how Tri Delta values can play a role in determining culture. Then alumna advisors will discuss maintaining relationships and strategies for mending relationships. The track wraps up by learning more about empathy and accountability, the philosophy of the member support committees, developmental discipline, factors that might impact outcomes and educational outcomes.

During this track, membership experience advisors (MEA) will explore a variety of topics that contribute to supporting the Tri Delta chapter they advise. The track will begin with an opportunity to take a closer look at the MEA role and structure of the membership experience collegiate officer team. The track continues with a deep dive into recruitment and retention discussions, focusing on the importance of transparency and strategic planning. Additionally, MEAs will discuss the concept of lifetime membership and how it can be found in all parts of collegiate membership. MEAs will also discuss self-governance and assess chapter health factors that inform membership expectations of collegiate members. The track concludes with a conversation about diversity, equity, inclusion, access, and belonging (DEIAB) through the Brave & Bold Dialogues lens.

Recruitment and retention specialists (RS) play an integral role in championing membership growth for the collegiate chapters. During this track, RSs will identify expectations for membership growth and explore the resources available to support them in their role so they can support the collegiate chapters in the areas of recruitment and retention. Through a series of case studies and resource review, the RSs will become familiar with real life scenarios, including primary recruitment, year-round recruitment, and membership retention, they will likely encounter. RSs will also gain an understanding for how to support chapter officers through their membership growth planning efforts and to create and utilize a retention committee. The track concludes with evaluating chapter recruitment trends and identifying the processes to fill membership vacancies.

Financial specialists play an essential role in facilitating the financial health of their collegiate chapters. During this track, attendees will explore how the FS role communicates and collaborates with other audiences, such as collegiate officers, members, advisors, and others. Attendees will then have the opportunity to apply their knowledge to various budgeting scenarios while discussing with peers how they might address certain situations. These topics will culminate in a discussion about ideal chapter financial health and how financial specialists can support their collegiate chapters in these areas. Finally, attendees will use Tri Delta’s financial management system, OmegaFi, and other tools to create a plan for how they intend to communicate with and support their collegiate chapters. NOTE: Attendees are strongly encouraged to bring a laptop/tablet to their training track to access OmegaFi and other online resources.

The CCS provides support as an advisor, mentor and mediator to advisors and chapter leadership. In your role, you ensure the overall success of advisors and chapters while serving as a liaison between the volunteer specialists, chapter advisors and assigned chapters. During the CCS Track, you’ll develop new strategies and best practices to support advisors and chapter leaders through a deep dive of collegiate and volunteer officer structures, research on today’s college student, Tri Delta’s philosophies, chapter operations and more! CCSs will spend time identifying plans and strategies around the recruitment, selection and training of alumna advisors. This includes opportunities to coach and support AAs through day-to-day operations and for some, through crisis. The track provides an overview of the Incident Response Form including recent trends and observations. The final track offers a space for CCSs to debrief Brave & Bold Dialogues and identify ways to integrate diversity, equity, inclusion, access and belonging (DEIAB) into their role as a Tri Delta volunteer.

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Collegiate chapter coordinators and the collegiate volunteer coordinator play an integral role in supporting and championing chapter volunteers within Tri Delta’s collegiate chapter regions. The CVC and CCCo’s team will be provided with the opportunity to brainstorm in identifying a culture of change and impactful influences for building lifetime membership through the recruitment and training of volunteers experiencing variable influences. This track will continue to develop strategic ways in which these coordinators lead, coach, and mentor a team through identification of the current events and trends facing collegiate leaders and advisors today.

Alumnae specialists and alumnae philanthropy specialists play an integral role in supporting alumnae chapters with their operations including membership growth, philanthropy, service, education, social and much more. Specialists will be provided with an opportunity to learn about how to best support alumnae chapters through general operation or specialized experiences, the ability to have more personal conversations with their peers and learn about the resources available to them as a specialist. The track will continue with powerful conversations about alumnae chapter membership growth, creating a meaningful and memorable lifetime experience for alumnae chapter members consider compelling components of an alumnae chapter experience, identify ways to connect with new members and brainstorm membership growth best practices. The track will conclude with the development of personal goals.  

Alumnae chapter coordinators play an integral role in supporting alumnae and alumnae philanthropy specialists and the overall health, structure and experiences of alumnae chapters. Coordinators will be provided with an opportunity for the development of leadership and coaching skills, application of skills, training and more personal conversations with your peers.  The track will continue with powerful conversations about alumnae chapter membership growth, creating a meaningful and memorable lifetime experience for alumnae chapter members consider compelling components of an alumnae chapter experience, identify ways to connect with new members and brainstorm membership growth best practices. The track will conclude with the development of personal goals.  

A Tri Delta home is the first location new members are introduced to Tri Delta sisterhood. From the first impression of the home’s exterior to the warmth and comfort of the home’s interior, our local house corporations play a critical role in creating a sense of membership belonging by securing a competitive, comfortable and safe space where members can bring their authentic Tri Delta selves. The local house corporation literally provides a foundation where members gain a sense of purpose to their chapter which impacts retention.

Participants will first review their role and how it fits into the big picture of Tri Delta. Next, they will explore the role competitive housing plays in chapter membership recruitment and retention. Then, they will learn about the standards outlined in the LHC Annual Reporting Requirements and how to submit their documentation on Tri Delta’s new reporting platform designed especially for them. They will establish their role in creating a sense of belonging within the chapter home or space and work through a project simulation to share best practices for planning, design, décor and branding. Housing volunteers will learn how to conduct a market analysis for an optimal rent setting process. Next, they will discover best practices for capital planning and fundraising. The track will bring it all together for a session on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.