In this episode of Leading with Student Acitivities Bruce interviews Madelyn Giles, the Director of the Freshman Leadership Advisory Council (FLAC) the representative body that oversees the 20 Freshman Leadership Organizations (FLOs). FLOs account for more than 10% of the experience of each freshmen class at Texas A&M by providing membership opportunities to 1,200+ students a year and 400+ student leadership roles. One of many areas of FLAC is the coordinated recruitment process which in 2020 was handled 100% virtual for the first time and led to more than370,000 impressions on instagram and in the end there were 5,600 applications submitted! If you are wanting to learn lessons on how to recruit while remote listen in!

Leadership Lessons:

-Find your hobbies that fill your bucket

-Bring your team together

-Be intentional, make intentional choices

-QR Codes on signs around campus

-Know your audience and design your actions based on it

-Get people to know you, not what everyone else is doing

-Share successes to build confidence and empower

Quote of the Day:

“The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary” - Vidal Sassoon

Show Notes

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Episode Hosted by Bruce Brown, a Student Affairs Coordinator in Student Activities at Texas A&M University

Special Guest(s) - Madelyn Giles - FLAC Director

To learn more about Student Activities:

• Follow Student Activities on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tamustuact)

• Like  Student Activities on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/stuact)

• Visit https://studentactivities.tamu.edu/

To learn more about FLAC:

• Visit the FLAC website - https://flac.tamu.edu/about/

• Like on Social Media - https://www.facebook.com/TAMUFLAC

Audio Transcript (Generated by AI…Coming Soon, thanks for your patience)

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