Leadership and Success at Frostburg

by Joel Watson

The newly formed Frostburg chapter of The National Society of Leadership and Success (Sigma Alpha Pi) held their very first orientation meeting in the Atkins Room on February 29^th in order to introduce an outlet for students to practice their leadership skills. As students began to shuffle through the doors of the Atkins room in the Lane Center, the buzzing chatters of eager voices filled the room. It wasn’t until almost every plastic chair in the room was filled that the double doors finally closed and the audience’s attention was turned to the nervous line up of professionally dressed students standing at the front of the room. Introducing themselves as the executive board of Frostburg’s new Sigma Alpha Pi chapter the orientation commenced.

The National Society of Leadership and Success is an organization that allows students seeking a way of reaching their goals, whatever they may be, to network with other students on campus and execute these goals successfully. Although it is a fairly new society it has already extended its reach to numerous schools through out the country and is still growing at a fast rate.

Some of the ways that the organization guarantees the success of its members is through the events that are exclusively available to the organization. Some of these events include six live speaker broadcasts on the Internet that take place through out each academic school year and introduce students to prestigious leaders that have demonstrated success and leadership. The organization also has leadership training days scheduled for its members in order for students to have some hands on experience with some of the leading practices that they have learned about. On top of these learning experiences that Sigma Alpha Pi offers, the members also have access to an online job bank to help them find jobs and network with people across the nation.

Now that this new organization has been introduced on campus it gives a chance for the students with a leadership minor to uses their knowledge from classes in an extracurricular group while also furthering the influence of Frostburg State University. Whether you are in a managerial position at your job or just stepping up to the plate because no one else would, a membership to the National Society of Leadership and Success is an asset for anybody.

For more information on the organization as well as how to join and what is required you can go to http://societyleadership.org/ . There is also a Facebook page available for those interested in the events taking place in the Frostburg chapter at http://www.facebook.com/FrostburgNSLS?ref=ts&sk=info .