What Will I Learn?

When your delegation leaves the ASGA National Student Government Summit, you’ll be taking away specific ideas and “best practices” which will quickly and dramatically 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. You’ll head home knowing how to build a more cohesive team that’s prepared to handle new challenges head-on and more efficiently.

1. How to build credibility for your SG
2. 13 steps to improve your SG
3. 50 tips to improve your SG elections
4. 25 worst mistakes your SG can make
5. How to get along with administrators
6. Publicity & media relations
7. How to get students to care about your SG
8. Parliamentary procedure training
9. A blueprint for office transitions
10. Giving constructive feedback and building better teams
11. Encourage students to run for office
12. Learn how to get what you want
13. Learn how to represent all types of students
14. Improve your meetings
15. Improve your voter turnout
16. Enhance your SG’s image
17. Boost turnout at your events
18. Find out how to maximize your budget
19. Recruit new members and retain them
20. Improve relations with your administrators
21. Attract publicity for your important projects
22. Run ethical and effective campus elections
23. Get students involved at commuter campuses
24. Gain real power and influence on your campus
25. Get a vote on your institution’s board of trustees
26. Attract a strong, competent, and committed advisor
27. Develop traditions and awards to spur greater student loyalty
28. Get the most from conferences and conventions you attend
29. Deal with conflict in your organization
30. Deal with stifling rules at private institutions
31. Offer compensation to attract committed and competent leaders
32. Develop a transition plan with new officers shadowing outgoing ones
33. Survey your students so you really know what they want
34. Build coalitions with different and often-opposing groups
35. Get along better with the campus press and get them to cover you
36. Avoid pitfalls that cause problems and embarrassment
37. Organize your office to seamlessly move between administrations
38. Deal with stress during your term and the feelings of let-down when it’s over
39. Deal with the egos of your fellow officers and members
40. Prevent administrators from side-stepping and delaying on your requests