Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Taking Small Steps to Make a Big Impact

This week's blog post in contributed by Jessica Marlow a National Consultant Team member from Oklahoma.

As an FCCLA Adviser you hold a very powerful role with your students. You have the opportunity to influence them on a daily basis.  What you chose to do with this influence is completely up to you. If you are an adviser that is enthusiastic about the organization, you will have students and members that follow suit.  Students follow your example.

If you currently have a chapter that is stagnate and needing a little ‘spice,’ take a look in the mirror. Are you an FCCLA Adviser that is contributing to positive changes within your organization?

Work with your officer team to set goals geared toward the changes you would like to see and then create a time line to accomplish those goals. Positive changes could include increasing membership, awareness in the community, or something as small as increasing attendance at meetings. The goals you select need to reflect the positive changes that you want to see.

By selecting a few small goals to achieve, you could see amazing results within your chapter. Start small, changes don’t happen overnight.

1 comment:

Rhett Laubach said...

Great post, Jessica. Thanks for the inspiration. Advisers, here are two resources I provide that will help you with your and your chapter's goals:

http://pliblog.yournextspeaker.com/labels/Goal%20Processing.html

http://www.delicious.com/pliblog/goal%2Bprocessing

Enjoy!

Rhett Laubach
www.YourNextSpeaker.com