The Society is a community of leaders dedicated to creating lasting positive change. The Society is recognized as a worldwide organization for achievement and leadership education. Rather than just providing a one-time event, the Society distinguishes itself from other programs by integrating a year-long speaker series with interactive components, training in goal setting, and team meetings in which students set and hold each other accountable to achieving goals.
The society national office supplies you with everything you need to implement a program that helps create lasting positive change in students' lives and in the greater community.
Though our partnerships with various U.S. Universities, the presentations are delivered to your school via live interactive web broadcast (or streaming video online available after event). Streaming video after the event allows schools to show the presentations at the time of their choice.
The videoconference presentations are open to all students and are usually promoted campus-wide. If students wish, they have the option of becoming members of the national organization as well. These students get to take advantage of numerous additional benefits as a member. In addition to having the opportunity to hear some of the nation's leading presenters, authors, and success coaches, students who become members of the Society become part of a community of likeminded goal-oriented individuals. Students are placed into teams where fellow students share challenges, goals and aspirations, make commitments to each other, and hold each other accountable for their actions.
Members of the Society have the opportunity to use what they learn during the presentations from the speaker series in their personal lives. By surrounding themselves with likeminded individuals, students are exposed to peer mentoring, which often leads to positive change in their lives.
Unlike other honor societies who only enable those on the Dean's list to qualify, you get to customize who qualifies to receive an application for membership, as we realize that often students who can benefit from leadership training aren't always just those on the Dean's list. Similar to other honorary societies, the Society has a one-time only lifetime membership dues of seventy-five dollars. For details on where their dues go, click here.
The membership dues go back to support the members. This fee covers their certificate of leadership training, membership pin, t-shirt, scholarships and awards, online job bank, access to Success Coaches, customized personalized letter of recommendation (upon completing their membership requirements), access to several years of past videoconferences, Success Talk (15 additional minutes of video content of each presenter), Interview Series (audio interviews with experts on various topics), use of a resource collection of leadership books and CD's, Motivational Mondays (weekly e-mails with five-minutes of motivational audio recordings), and participation in Success Networking Teams (a proven process where students help one another achieve goals). Click to view a full listing of membership benefits.
"92% of Society members transitioning into careers, landed the job of their choice upon graduating and 86% of them credit the Society with helping them achieve this."
* National Survey
"Leadership training is ranked as the second most important factor in hiring decisions, trumped only by employee honesty."
* Source: National Underwriter
To be inducted as a member, one must attend an orientation, three videoconferences, three consecutive Success Networking Team meetings, and participate in the three-hour interactive video based Leadership Training Day. The Leadership Training Day is held twice a year and focuses on exploring one's challenges, recognizing one's strength, identifying one's passions, and setting up a personal plan to initiate the changes needed to move forward. After completion of the requirements, members are issued their certificate of leadership training by the National Society of Leadership and Success. Their certificate, membership pin and other items are mailed to the advisor to present at an induction ceremony at the end of the semester.
Similar to other honor societies, students receive an invitation from you in the mail informing them the program exists on campus and inviting them to participate. The Society's National Office manages the process of generating interest for you by helping you send your invitations and covering all postage expenses.
The Success Networking Team concept is used by many of the most successful people nationwide, and in many ways Success Networking Teams are the most important part of the Society. Success Networking Teams are what gets individuals to take action. They are what empower people to make positive changes in their lives, as well as feel connected to a group that believes in them.
SNT meetings are designed to encourage participants to work together and provide peer coaching around achieving personal and professional goals. During their SNT meetings, participants are encouraged to follow up on the initial Leadership Training by discussing personal desires, setting goals and objectives, creating timelines, and holding each other accountable. Success Networking Teams meet twice a month. Sometimes groups like to meet right before broadcasts and others like to meet over dinner.
We know that in order to empower people to follow through with positive actions, they need consistent motivation as well as accountability rather than a one-time lecture. The continuity of the program was designed to keep participants motivated long-term and help them take continued action towards improving their personal growth and well-being.
The more people feel ownership, the more likely they are to have a vested interest in attending and promoting the events. We have tools and resources that make it easier to target motivated individuals who would want to take on the responsibility of leading your Society Chapter. We work along side you and this individual to help run an effective program. We supply a constitution if you decide you would like to make your chapter a formal organization on campus.
All members receive access to an online collection of written and audio-visual materials by leading presenters from around the world.
* Funding is available for a limited number of new chapters. Contact the National Office for requirements.