(front row, left to right) Kirby Barrick, Facilitator; Clay Torset, A. Beta Adviser, Jim Hankes, Alpha Adviser; Warren Dean Weatherley, B. Epsilon Alumni President; Ron Paquette, A. Rho Adviser.
(back row, left to right) Ben Davis, NE RVP; Bill Kemp, A. Kappa Alumni President; Mike Borel, NW RVP; John Glover, B. Epsilon Adviser; Mike North, B. Gamma Alumni President; Thad Koenigsfeld, Chapter Consultant.

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by Kirby Barrick, Adviser Forum Facilitator

Each January and June, a several AGRs meet in Kansas City to participate in an AGR Advisers Forum.  A typical list of participants would include several relatively new chapter advisers, a few alumni board presidents, and one or two other fraternity leaders including RVPs and new home office staff.  The purpose of the forum is to instill confidence to implement the techniques of participative leadership, and to set priority goals and objectives for improvement over the next 24 months.

The forum is not a ten-steps-to-success approach.  Instead, participants focus on identifying their leadership skills and style, and then participate in activities to help determine how their skills and style can be used effectively to manage change in working with undergraduate chapters and alumni groups.  Feedback indicates that participants especially appreciate the opportunity to delve into real-life fraternity issues and gain perspectives from others regarding how those issues might be addressed.  Participants also learn more about fraternity programs and how they can make local programming more successful.

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