Serving as an officer or liaison in Omega Leo Medical Explorers is a leadership role with real responsibility. This is not a typical student organization. It is a volunteer medical organization, and your work helps shape how the program functions, how members are trained, and how the organization is represented to the community.
You are helping sustain a program with a long history, strong partnerships, and real expectations. That means your role matters, and the work should be taken seriously.
As a leader, your responsibility is not only to participate, but also to help the program run well. Officers and liaisons help maintain the organization, support members, and keep communication clear. Liaisons usually focus on specific volunteer areas or partnerships, while officers take on broader responsibilities that help coordinate the program overall.
Both roles require initiative, reliability, and good judgment. They also require an understanding that the program’s reputation depends on how well its leaders carry out their responsibilities.
All our leaders are expected to participate in our Leadership Academy. Watch for this class. It's usually scheduled early in the semester, maybe around week 4 or 5, both fall and spring. You can never have too much training in leadership. Your first leadership course will focus on a leadership style known as Servant Leadership - a particularly useful leadership style for volunteer organizations, but a strong leadership style for any situation.
We expect all our leaders to be Servant Leaders. Our sucess depands on our officers and liaisons being real leaders. Remember, we are a volunteer medical organization, and “poor” leadership will be a safety concern.
You are not expected to do this alone. Student advisors have already served in leadership roles and can help you understand your position and how to handle the work that comes with it. Senior advisors provide continuity from year to year and are often the best source for long-term guidance.
If something is unclear, please ask early. Most problems are easier to solve when you do not wait too long to ask for help or clarification..
Being a member of our Omega Leo Medical Explorer Post 4077 is much more than just volunteering. We extend the opportunity to any student who would like to be part of something bigger than all of us. Tell your friends and anyone about who and what we do. Take advantage of all we offer yourself. There's training in medical skills, but there's also training in service and leadership. Wouldn't it be great if our university had an Omega Leo club in areas other than health! Maybe with our leadership and guidance, we can help make that happen.
Here are five tips to help make us grow. These five points should be reviewed by each of our leaders. How can you help? We have a Membership Committee that needs your contribution.
Find ways to do meaningful service while bringing people together and having fun. Tie most of our volunteer activities to the future careers of our members, but don't ignore activities that contribute to our university and community.
Share your achievements proudly. Your success stories can inspire others to join us. Public Relations Officer, this is your primary responsibility, but everyone has a part to play. Every member has a responsibility when serving as a Crew Chief.
Help the university and our community see that being a member of our Omega Leo Medical Explorer Post 4077 is so much more than volunteering.
Create an inclusive environment where everyone feels heard and valued. Remember the 12 words of the Scout Law.
A personal invitation is often all it takes to bring in a new member.
Written Standard Operating Procedures are how we manage our organization. The following list of SOPs are useful for all our leaders. More will be added upon request.
These documents should be viewed as working drafts. They are not meant to be perfect or final. Instead, they are guides to the general management procedures that drive how we operate. Any member can suggest a change to any of our SOPs. Our Vice-President of Systems is in charge of our SOP system and is your first place to suggest changes and revisions.
If something is unclear, missing, or outdated, it is everyone's responsibility to help improve the SOP. Advisors are available to support you, and updates should be shared with others so they can be maintained and guide future leaders.
Yes, we know the list below is not exhaustive and you may need to help us write another SOP usedful for all our leaders. Reach out to our advisors. They are all eager to get our SOP system more complete and useful to everyone needing clear explanations of how we do what we do. Others are asking how we do all we do. It's simple - we carefully write all the steps helping new leaders hit the ground running as effective officers and liaisons.
We aim to operate like an important and reliable part of the university. That level of professionalism begins with clearly defined responsibilities.
Understand the groups we work with and where your role connects to the bigger picture.
