2018 Alpha Chi Omega National Convention Education Sessions
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2018 Alpha Chi Omega National Convention Education Sessions Friday, June 29, 2018 1 -3 p.m. Session Local House Corporation Training Track Join the National Housing Corporation and housing department team for sessions specifically created for local house corporation board members. Session topics to be covered during the LHC track will include budgeting, fundraising tips, update on chapter level employees and roundtable discussions. 8:30 -9:30 p.m. Volunteer Meetings Chapter Advisors Meeting – for advisors from chapters with employees Join the human resources team to discuss chapter-level employees. Province Collegiate Chair Volunteer Meeting Meeting for all province collegiate chairs. Province Alumnae Chair Volunteer Meeting Meeting for all province alumnae chairs. Collegiate Experience Volunteer Meeting Meeting for lead specialists serving in the collegiate experience volunteer structure. Updated 4.18.18 Saturday, June 30, 2018 6:15 -7:15 a.m. Wellness Activity Yoga Madeline Plesac Bring your yoga mat or a towel and spend time with Madeline Plesac, a newly trained yoga teacher and the associate director of advancement for the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation. 7 -8 a.m. Volunteer Meeting PCC and Chapter Advisor Province Meetings PCCs and chapter advisors will spend time meeting with advisors from their province. Grab breakfast from one of the cash concessions or bring your own, find your province sign and join the conversation. 2:30 -3:30 p.m. General Session How The World Sees You Sally Hogshead Attendees were invited to take the Fascination Personality Test® prior to attending convention to identify their personality archetype. Sally Hogshead has incorporated the results into her presentation to share the composition of attendees and the leading archetypes in the large group setting. This session will equip you with the tools and resources to see how the world sees you and will guide you to consider your story and how you amplify yourself and Alpha Chi Omega. Sally will concentrate on developing you as an individual who in turn influences your team. Ultimately, all of our “teams” (chapters, volunteer teams, etc.) impact the greater Alpha Chi Omega. By participating in this experience, you will learn to be a stronger leader, identify how you add value and consider how you can maximize performance. These concepts and lessons not only apply to the Real. Strong. Women. Experience, but also your individual personal growth. Updated 4.18.18 Sally frequently appears in national media, including NBC’s Today show and The New York Times. A dynamic and engaging speaker, she has been inducted into the CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame, the industry’s highest award for professionalism and speaking excellence, and is The New York Times bestselling author of How the World Sees You and Fascinate: How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist. Sally is the creator of the Fascination Personality Test: the world’s first personality assessment that measures what makes someone fascinating. Unlike the Myers-Briggs type indicator or the StrengthsFinder test, this assessment is not about how you see the world– it's how the world sees you. The science of fascination is based on a decade of research with more than a million participants, including dozens of Fortune 500 teams, hundreds of small businesses and more than a thousand C-level executives. 3:45-4:45 p.m. Breakout Sessions iGen: Understanding the Smartphone Generation Dr. Jean Twenge Today’s students are iGen (born after 1995), the first generation to spend their adolescence with smartphones. iGen’ers are growing up more slowly as adolescents, spending more time online and spending less time hanging out with their friends in person. Perhaps as a result, they are more likely to experience unhappiness, anxiety and depression. Dr. Jean M. Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University, is the author of more than 140 scientific publications and books. Two of her books include: iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy– and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood and Generation Me: Why Today’s Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled — and More Miserable Than Ever Before. Her research has been covered in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News and World Report, and The Washington Post, and she has been featured on Today, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Fox and Friends, NBC Nightly News, Dateline NBC, and National Public Radio. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Chicago and a doctorate degree from the University of Michigan. She lives in San Diego with her husband and three daughters. Engaging the New Volunteer Peggy M. Hoffman We are faced with a different volunteer with different demands, and with that comes a need to shift our volunteering practices to adapt. The traditional volunteer model frankly doesn’t Updated 4.18.18 fit. It ignores generational differences, handcuffs decision making and limits involvement. How can we respond to today’s different volunteer with different demands? Research gives us hints, and from some innovative associations we have ideas. Let’s put those together for a conversation that begins with the trends and highlights where we can act. Peggy M. Hoffman is president of Mariner Management & Marketing LLC, where she serves as the resident expert on communication, marketing and building community. In addition to managing organizations, Peggy has provided training and consultation on leadership development, component relations and strategic planning to more than a dozen national associations and many local groups over the past 30 years. Peggy has been very involved in the American Society of Association Executives over the years, serving in a variety of roles including involvement in ASAE’s and The Center’s groundbreaking Decision to Volunteer research project and contributions to the book of the same name published in 2008. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in communications from American University, Peggy is a graduate of the association management curriculum of the Institute for Organization Management at Notre Dame and has worked in the nonprofit arena for more than 30 years. This is the Big Change: The Future of High School Graduates and Implications for Alpha Chi Omega Colleen Falkenstern & members of the Diversity and Inclusion Study Group For 40 years, the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) has produced Knocking at the College Door, projections of high school graduates. The 9th edition provides projections of high school graduates through the class of 2032. WICHE projects that the U.S. is expected to face a period of limited growth in the overall number of high school graduates, fueled by a decline in the number of white graduates and an increase in Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islander graduates. This session will include an overview of how these projected trends will affect higher education and Panhellenic demand, access, and attainment. The session will be led by Colleen Falkenstern, research coordinator at WICHE. Further, members of the Alpha Chi Omega Diversity and Inclusion Study Group will discuss findings from their research related to diversity and inclusion in the sorority experience. Colleen Falkenstern serves as a research coordinator in WICHE’s policy analysis and research unit. In her role, she supports the development of WICHE’s annual data resources – Regional Fact Book for Higher Education in the West, Benchmarks of access and success, and Tuition and Fees in Public Higher Education in the West. She also provides analytical support for WICHE’s quadrennial projections of high school graduates, Knocking at the College Door. She received her bachelor’s degree in marketing and management from the University of South Carolina – Columbia and her master’s degree in higher education from the University of Denver. Updated 4.18.18 Alpha Chi Omega formed a volunteer team, the Diversity and Inclusion Study Group, in 2017 to engage in open dialogue about what it means to provide an inclusive membership experience and what it means to be a sorority member on a campus and/or an alumna in the community. The study group seeks to pursue opportunities for education, policy development and/or programming to address the needs of our collegians and alumnae in this complex area. Members of the study group have vast backgrounds and experiences ranging from higher education, policy development, public relations, STEM education, training and development, and law and project management – and most volunteer for Alpha Chi Omega in other capacities. Our History: Panel Discussion with Past National Presidents Past National Presidents There is no group of women that has amplified the Alpha Chi Omega experience more than our Past National Presidents. During this panel discussion, our Past National Presidents will discuss major accomplishments and changes in the Fraternity during their tenure, favorite memories of their service and most challenging experiences. Learn how our Alpha Chi Omega experience has been amplified by the service of these real strong, women. Past National Presidents will serve as panelists, and the discussion will be moderated by our current National President. 5-6 p.m. Breakout Sessions Becoming Unstoppable Jessica Pettitt Let’s face it; there are people and topics that at some point are just off limits. You just can’t do it right now. Even worse, often it is a difficult topic that you have to bring up with a difficult person. What if you could engage in these conversations with more confidence, humor and ease? No matter the person or topic, you are your best tool for conversations that matter. Understanding yourself and others as differently right gives you the tools to intentionally design teams, groups and partnerships that can bring value to a single project or topic. We are all frustrating to someone, and at times even to ourselves.