<p>To anyone out there who has already done this, what did you do at your first meetings? Anything important to do besides brainstorming for fundraising and electing staff? When I asked for my dad's opinion, he said that I should try to get local businessmen to come and talk about what they did in high school, college, etc.</p>
<p>I found this on my state's FBLA website:</p>
<p>National Fall Leadership Conference
Each fall, new leaders and advisers from chapters across the nation gather for one of four conferences designed to guide and motivate their success for the year. This includes workshops, seminars, exhibits, and general sessions, as well as the benefit of networking among their peers from other cities and states.</p>
<p>Maybe plan for that?</p>
<p>How do we prepare for the spring competitions?</p>
<p>You could say I'm a little lost. Thanks y'all.</p>
<p>by FBLA are you talking about future buisness leaders of America? My advice is get girls in there. I thought it’d be fun to try it out at my HS during club week where we can try all clubs we want. I walked out instead of signing up. All Seniors. All Boys. I’m okay with that but its a little intimidating along with the fact it seemed very cliquey. Like walking into a wall street party. Not to mention i found out everyone had to wear suits on meeting days. I listened politely and didn’t return and didn’t sign up. I would have been fine with it but sometimes its nice to have a friend in a class, not upperclassmen, along with a girl to talk to. All i can offer is,
1.) Get all ages involved.**
2.) Self promote your club. Nooo not T shirts or anything. See if your school will let you do posters. ours does.
3.) Try to get girls involved PLEASE. I would like to think I would have stuck around if there was a friend there. The club had big potential.
4.) Stay focused! There wasn’t much at our meeting. No buisness, nothing. Just a leader who kinda joked around the whole time.</p>
<p>Wow, that’s so weird. Most of my school’s FBLA members are girls, and there were a ton of frosh last year. There was only one male officer. Most of the competition participants are guys though.</p>
<p>Our club is far less intense though. Other than the competitions it is mostly an excuse to have a big field trip.</p>
<p>@katica- Lucky! It was ALL boys at mine. Which as a teenage girl, I was perfectly happy with until i realized I didn’t have anyone to talk to since they were all older and I was a freshman!</p>
<p>@Dispatch- Yes only the 1st officially, I also ran errands for the office and had to go in a few other meetings to drop off notes. It was always like I described, but I think my school isn’t too serious about it. (:</p>
<p>Although I have not started an FBLA chapter, I’m a president in one and attended an NLC. Assuming you found a teacher that will serve as the adviser, I suggest that you recruit a wide range of students, but especially younger ones. Younger students will be the future of the club and younger students seem to show more interest than seniors that are just filling their EC’s. I have a small club, so I’m trying to do the same thing in a way. If you have any questions, just ask me. I’m not on here all the time but I’ll try to answer them!</p>
<p>any other ideas? since i’m now assuming taking the exams are optional, i’m trying to find things to hold on to members that don’t want to learn for the exams.</p>