Welcome To The TNT Family

Buying into our organization and starting or taking over a chapter is a huge step, and we're glad to have you on this journey with us. TNT exists because of people like you who are willing to help our organization grow, but also those that understand the impact our groups have on, not only your business, but everyone else's that become a member in your chapter. So thank you for believing in our mission.

As an affiliate, your job is to oversee the chapter and its operations, ensure the other leadership positions are doing their jobs in a timely manner, and directly communicating with corporate when needed. At first, being a chapter affiliate might seem intimidating, but corporate is here to make sure you have everything you need to do your role effectively. We look forward to having your help!

What Do Affiliates Do

• The Affiliate is primarily responsible for overseeing the chapter and it's assigned leadership. You will be a main point of contact for corporate regarding matters relating to your chapter, and you will be responsible for ensuring your chapter is following all TNT policies.
• Assign a chapter leadership team that can run your chapter effectively. Communicate leadership issues to corporate if they arise.
• Ensure your chapter submits the monthly President's Report online no later than the 5th of the following month.
• Ensure your chapter maintains a Leadership Binder with information for each leadership position for your chapter.
• Pay attention to emails from corporate and communicate directly with corporate when needed.
• Submit chapter supply requests when your chapter needs things like outside meeting slips.
• Ensure your chapter follows all TNT guidelines and procedures. Meetings are 1.5hrs with NO breaks.
• Regularly plan leadership and feedback meetings to promote chapter growth.
• If leadership changes, complete the Website Change Request.

Run The Meeting

The president is responsible for running the chapter meeting each week and ensuring each meeting sticks to the TNT structure outlined in your President's Agenda. Meetings are to follow this agenda to ensure each meeting has the same flow and we have enough time for all chapter business during our allotted meeting time. Weekly meetings are to be 1.5hrs with NO breaks. In the event a president is absent, the vice president should step up and cover their role during the meeting; however, occasionally there will be times when both president and vice presidents are unavailable and the affiliate must step in to run the meeting. You will find the agenda in your Affiliate Resources page.

Coordinate Leadership Meetings Regularly

The president is responsible for conducting a leadership meeting a minimum every 8 weeks. The goals of these leadership meetings are to discuss all current chapter reports and discuss chapter business goals. These meetings can be directly after your chapter meeting if all leadership agrees to stay over or they can be an entirely separate meeting, whichever works for everyone. To do these meetings effectively, keep notes of what key points your leadership brings to your attention and what can be done to address them. All leadership meetings need to be reported in your President's Report. As an Affiliate, you're responsible for either attending these meetings, or at least following up with Leadership to see what all was discussed during the meeting and if anything needs escalated to corporate.

Conduct Open Forum Meeting for Membership Feedback

As affiliate of your chapter, it's important to listen to your members. This not only makes them feel heard, which helps them feel like part of the chapter, but an outside perspective on some of the challenges the chapter may be facing is a great way to overcome them. Coordinate an Open Forum meeting in place of the normal 10 minute presentation every 8 – 10 weeks.

Encourage Member Participation

As Affiliate, you're responsible for making sure members of your chapter feel like they're getting a good value out of their membership. That means making sure people are utilizing the tools we provide including the TNT website, member dashboard, discord, and Facebook pages. You can also encourage participation in weekly meetings with different activities to make members talk to each other (speed networking, question games, etc) just to help the quiet members or newer members get out of their shell more.