What is Achieve?
Continued self-improvement is part of who we are as Phi Kaps. Achieve is Phi Kappa Theta's multi-step strategic planning tool that allows chapter leadership and individual members to reflect and set the tone for the academic year. As a result of continued pause and reflection, you’ll be able to improve your chapter's developmental culture from year to year.
A Culture of Reflection
Our organizational approach to chapter- and self-improvement includes four steps:
Assess First, reflect on your experiences
Plan Next, identify and set realistic goals
Execution Take action to fulfill your goal(s)
Evaluate Debrief and discuss strategies for further growth.
This portion of phikaps.org is where chapters come to complete the Achieve Assessment each year.
Achieve has been reimagined and ORGANIZed for 2019-2020!
Starting in fall of 2019, we’ll focus on two main administrative tasks that simplify the Four-Step process outlined above:
These two parts will act as book-ends for the academic year
SEPTEMBER:
ASSESS their performance,
PLAN out goals for the year
EXECUTE AN ACTION PLAN
JUNE
EVALUATE their progress,
REPORT events and programs
ACHIEVE GUIDE: areas of focus
To make the best of your experience with Achieve throughout the year, we’ve come up with a list of items and areas that typically yield the best results in chapter development.
Chapters that perform the best in any given year focus on…
LEADERSHIP
Leadership transitions for new exec teams
Tightening up governing documents (constitutions, by-laws, etc)
Training on parliamentary procedures
Encouraged participation in outside clubs & orgs
FRATERNAL
Quo Vadis facilitation / improvement
Associate Member Education refinement and improvement
Recruitment alignment and/or workshops
Brotherhood events / retreat(s)
Increased accountability efforts within the chapter
spiritual
Enhanced ritual exemplification (Initiation, Associate Member, etc
Faith and Spiritual Development events
Increased access to inter-faith understanding and outreach
Modeling positive values on- and off-campus
INTELLECTUAL
Chapter GPA average
GPA placement in all-greek, all-mens, or IFC rankings
Academic preparedness
Career readiness and life skills
SOCIAL
Increasing recorded service hours
Hosting philanthropic events
Increased community impact (on- or off-campus)
Campus recognition efforts