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(Excerpt From APO-USA, Pledge Manual)
Alpha Phi Omega teaches us through our principles of Leadership, Friendship and Service that we are the architects of our own ambitions and that each of us has the opportunity to develop ourselves to be whatever we seek to be. In the area of leadership, from within our own fraternity, people are transformed from followers to leaders sometimes without really being aware of the development. It can happen gradually, or it might happen overnight – today a follower, tomorrow a leader.
The Fraternity has several programs to help brothers become better leaders by developing their own personal skills as well as learning more about chapter operations.
APO LEADS: At the completion of the APO LEADS series of courses, you will have a set of transferable skills that are applicable to the work world and to other organizational leadership. APO LEADS is not just for pledges and actives; alumni are welcome to take or retake the courses as well. Following are
descriptions for each component: The APO LEADS program, a personal odyssey of learning, leading and serving, consists of five components of leadership development – LAUNCH, EXPLORE, ACHIEVE, DISCOVER and SERVE. Each of the five components focus on skills that will help you become a successful leader and team member in APO and in life.
The following are descriptions of each component:
LAUNCHING your leadership development is an introductory leadership session.
It is the launching point in your personal odyssey of leadership development and is a prerequisite session for the remaining four APO LEADS components. LAUNCH helps you learn what leadership is, what the differences are between leadership and management skills, how to deal with change and much more.
EXPLORING personal leadership strengths and potential is presented as a full-day session, providing an opportunity to expand your personal odyssey into leadership development by increasing your understanding
of individual leadership skills, values, ethics, morals, qualities, effective problem-solving and conflict management.
ACHIEVING success through teams is a session focusing on the interaction between chapter members,
the leaders, and the factors that lead to team success. This learning process will energize, empower and
recognize the respectful roles people may play on the team, as well as celebrate team success.
DISCOVERING management strengths and skills offers opportunities to learn strategies and skills needed to effectively operate a chapter, which will lead to success in your personal odyssey.
SERVING the Fraternity and the world as a leader is the final phase to utilize your skills of effective leadership. Upon completion, you can make the commitment to seek out opportunities at the chapter, sectional, regional or national levels, which will help lead APO to unlimited success.
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APO IMPACT: This program’s goal is to build a national officer training program that will produce
better and well-run chapters. The IMPACT program is envisioned as a unique hybrid of sorts, as it borrows
from the best of our current programs and resources. Not all chapters operate the same way nor do they have the same officer positions. However, there are certain skills and concepts that are universal.
The APO IMPACT courses are designed to ensure the successful administration and stewardship of Alpha Phi Omega’s chapters. APO IMPACT’s courses are divided into two sections: APO IMPACT Guides and APO IMPACT Live. The APO IMPACT Guides are a series of dynamic documents aimed to lay a foundation for every member of a chapter. Whether a brother holds an appointed, narrowly-focused position of leadership or is an officer with broader responsibilities, he/she can utilize the information contained in the guides. Each APO IMPACT Guide will have assigned skills in order to fulfill the needs of each respective position.They are a set of guides that provide a, “how to,” for the usual duties of the most
common chapter offices. If you don’t see a booklet titled with your office, look through the ones that are there. The information you are seeking may still be included To complement this, APO IMPACT Live is a series of courses for conferences and live webinar sessions. These courses will reinforce the knowledge found in the APO IMPACT officer manuals. APO IMPACT Live provides real-time, interactive workshop-format seminars for the development of solid chapters. These seminars will focus on officer-specific responsibilities and the application of certain skills. Because these are offered in a webinar format all anyone needs to participate is a computer with a good internet connection and speakers. A schedule of upcoming APO IMPACT Live webinars can be found on www.apo.org. The Chapter Assessment and Planning Session (CAPS) is a tool to help chapters identify goals and begin to plan programs for the coming year, based on an assessment of the past year. It is not designed to be a comprehensive, point-by-point analysis of chapter operations. It is also not designed to plan every activity or to set the calendar in stone for the coming year. However, it should identify areas the chapter wants to improve and key events or activities the chapter wants to see happen. The end result of the CAPS is documentation of goals and desires in a form that will help the chapter officers develop and implement plans for the coming year in a manner that represents what the chapter sees as most important. Further, it helps to think of planning as a cycle, not a straight-through process. Approaching planning as a cycle will help the chapter to ensure that plans are fully considered, focused, flexible, practical and effective. It will also provide an opportunity to evaluate and learn from any challenges that occur and then feed this information back into future planning and decision making.
Please visit www.apo.org for more information about APO’s Leadership Development Program. If you have any questions or suggestions about leadership development, please e-mail the Leadership Development Director at leadership.director@apo.org.
Reference: Alpha Phi Omega- Pledge Manual 2009-2010, Retrieved https://www.apo.org/Support, Accessed 23August2013
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