Gpc Student Leadership Conference

Tom Krieglstein: How many students walk onto your campus every single day, and no one says, “Hello,” to them? No one says, “Hi,” to them. Their email address is some number attached to ---gpc.edu. Right? (audience murmuring - “yeah”) Think about that for a moment. We have an amazing opportunity as student leaders to change the entire dynamic of every single campus here, to make it a dance floor. So when someone walks in, they look around they see all these faces they know, and these relationships they built up. And when the DJ - you all - put on whatever song you want, whatever activity you want, they are going to be like “I love that song!” Not because the song was great, because, of course, you put on great activities, but because the relationships were there. That's an amazing opportunity we have. If your campus looks like this, If your organization looks like this where each one of these dots represents an activity, Where you are asking people to show up at that event. And what you want to do is to fill up the rest of the space with Wonder Events. So we are going around and doing all sorts of Wonder Events so that we can increase the average level of engagement. So that when we do hand out a flier to someone they will be like, ''Oh yeah, totally!” “I'll come to that event”. But unless we do that, if we don't do these in between and then we host an event where we ask people to show up, they are not going to show up. They are not going to show up because they are all neutral. They're not going to care. It's like going up to a person you never met . and the answer is negative.