Dear Everyone Who Cares About Fraternities and Sororities, If you’re like me, you’re feeling a weird combination of exhausted and excited. Hopeful and fearful. I’m just happy to have “made it through last year” on one hand, and as I look toward the coming semester I’m already flinching and twitching at what might be coming Read More
by Matt Mattson A few months back we got this wonderful request from an advisor (Seneca Crump) at Ohio State. We want to develop a list of common language that Phired Up utilizes to work with chapters around growth so we can begin normalizing this language into our coaching practices. Do you all already have Read More
by Colleen Coffey-Melchiorre Phired Up and TechniPhi are committed to helping sororities and fraternities attract, select, secure and retain the right members for their organizations. Our team launched a survey of the industry late fall 2020 to assess the impact of COVID-19 on overall fraternity/sorority growth. Two survey tools were put into circulation: one aimed Read More
by Matt Mattson I’m certain that 2020 is the future. I’ve been waiting for the future to arrive ever since I was a kid, and I’m 100% sure it’s now finally here. As we roll into a new decade, allow me to try to predict the future (and consider how some of the most important trends will Read More
[Watch this video and then read this blog!] by Matt Mattson So, I don’t love using this word, but I’ve admitted it before and it’s true… I am an introvert. I know I’m not alone. Somewhere between 16% and 50% of all Americans would identify as an introvert. That said, I’m attending a conference soon that’s Read More
Great teams have great coaches. Who is coaching your team toward achieving your growth goals? Recruitment (not to mention marketing, new member onboarding, and retention) are all highly specialized parts of the fraternity/sorority experience. Most people didn’t join a “recruitment club,” they joined a sisterhood or a brotherhood, and that means that the recruitment part Read More
by Jason Allen In fraternity and sorority, we often fall victim to “the buzzwords”. Our intent gets lost in our word choices, and becomes diluted into random phrases instead of powerful messages. What if we rethink the way we use buzzwords, and use them as they are intended rather than hashtags on Instagram? Here are Read More
by Matt Mattson Today’s fraternity and sorority leaders, that I talk to… they’re inventors, they’re originators. They’re some of the most driven, brilliant, and thoughtful people I know. They’re trying to build modern organizations for modern students. They’re not stuck in “history” or “tradition.” On the contrary… They’re ready to create the future of fraternity Read More
“Get off the stage!” That might be our team’s new mantra. Nobody’s heckling us. Quite the opposite. We’re yelling it at ourselves. Let me explain. This semester our fraternity educators have been engaged in critical discussions with fraternity men around the country. We’re learning a TON from them. These guys are begging for legitimate help, Read More
[Presented at #AFAAM 2017 by Jessica Gendron Williams, Jason Allen, KJ McNamara, and Matt Mattson] Today’s college students might be the most edited, filtered, self-conscious and insecure population of their age range to date. And that’s not their fault. This generation, like those before them, are a product of their times. Social media, the previous Read More