You’ll quickly take away specific ideas and best practices to improve your Student Government.
ASGA’s training is based on decades of knowledge about student governments across the nation. We’ll help you develop plans to tackle both pressing issues and long-term projects, and build a more cohesive team prepared to handle new challenges.
Topics Covered in ASGA Resources
Credibility & Influence
- How to build credibility for your SG
- Gain real power and influence on your campus
- Get a vote on your institution’s board of trustees
- Learn how to get what you want
- Avoid pitfalls that cause problems and embarrassment
- Enhance your SG’s image
Elections & Recruitment
- 50 tips to improve your SG elections
- Improve your voter turnout
- Encourage students to run for office
- Run ethical and effective campus elections
- Recruit new members and retain them
- Get students involved at commuter campuses
- Survey your students so you really know what they want
Working with Administrators
- How to get along with administrators
- Improve relations with your administrators
- Deal with stifling rules at private institutions
- Attract a strong, competent, and committed advisor
- Prevent administrators from side-stepping and delaying on your requests
- Offer compensation to attract committed and competent leaders
Team & Leadership
- Giving constructive feedback and building better teams
- Deal with conflict in your organization
- Deal with the egos of your fellow officers and members
- Deal with stress during your term
- A blueprint for office transitions
- Develop a transition plan with new officers shadowing outgoing ones
- Learn how to represent all types of students
Communications & Outreach
- Publicity & media relations
- Attract publicity for your important projects
- How to get students to care about your SG
- Get along better with the campus press
- Boost turnout at your events
- Develop traditions and awards to spur greater student loyalty
- Build coalitions with different and often-opposing groups
Operations & Management
- 13 steps to improve your SG
- 25 worst mistakes your SG can make
- Parliamentary procedure training
- Improve your meetings
- Find out how to maximize your budget
- Get the most from conferences and conventions you attend
- Organize your office to seamlessly move between administrations
Need help with something not on this list?
Book a private consulting hour with one of ASGA’s Student Government experts.
conferences@asgaonline.com
