Leadership Ideas
Advanced
Program: Officer Transition Retreat
Level: Advanced
Chapter: Rho Tau at Malone College, OH
Materials needed:
• Newly elected officers
• Hotel rooms
• Agenda

How to:
1. Elect officers in late March/early April.
2. Set a transition date for late April before graduation.
3. Secure rooms at a local hotel with a pool and/or recreation center.
4. Provide an agenda to all attendees (incoming and outgoing officers).
5. Conduct the transition (goal-setting, chapter business, individual meetings, etc).
6. Socialize with one another in the pool or recreation center.
7. Sample Agenda:
  a. Introduction of Officers
  b. Officers’ annual reports
  c. Programming
  d. Initiation
  e. Finances
  f. Goals for the outgoing and incoming years
  g. Other business
  h. Thanks to outgoing officers
  i. Individual meetings
  j. Duties
  k. Goals
  l. Adjournment

Add a Twist:
• Conduct the meeting in the summer at a counselor or officer’s home with a pool.
• Meet at a local amusement area near campus.
• Conduct the meeting at a great restaurant.
• Have officers create officer notebooks.


For more information, contact your Chapter Resource Consultant or e-mail Chapter Services at mcs@kdp.org