Being a club leader at Siena is a privilege and an honor, but it also gets super tough sometimes. Here are five struggles all club leaders have at some point or another.
1. Getting people to join your club.
You know your club is great, the problem is convincing others of that. While club fairs are an optimal opportunity to get new members, you know only HALF the people (at best!) will actually join your club. Even if your club is sufficiently large already, you’re always on the lookout for new potential members. After all, the more, the better! As a result, you are constantly making pitches about your club to all your friends and classmates to try to boost your membership.
This is basically a GPOY of you at the club fair.
2. Setting up a meeting time.
Okay, so now that you’ve got recruitment out of the way, it’s time to set up a meeting time! Easier said than done. It seems like the whole e-board is involved with at least 5 other things on campus and a job, and there’s a little thing called classes. Trying to find a time that works for everyone is next to impossible.
This is what trying to figure out a meeting time looks like.
3. Getting people to actually come to meetings.
Once you’ve actually set up your meeting times, you have to deal with getting people to actually come to meetings. Your emails and posters probably make you sound way too chipper than you actually are, but you don’t care because you just want people to come. If you’re having food at the meeting, you highlight, italicize, and bold that important piece of info. You know you’re probably annoying everyone on your email list but you don’t care.
4. Dealing with receipts and purchase orders.
Okay, so it’s the day of one of the events you planned for your club, and you realize you forgot to buy something absolutely essential. So you buy it and think “Oh, I’ll get reimbursed.” Weeks later when you remember you need to submit the reimbursement form, you can’t find the receipt. You hope your club enjoyed that donation of yours…
5. Figuring out Saints Connect.
In concept, Saints Connect is pretty cool…trying to figure out how to actually use it? Not so much. Maybe it’s just me, but trying to figure out some aspects of it is way too puzzling. I’ll stick to plain old emails.
The struggle of being a club leader is real, but at the end of the day, you know you love your club and wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.