Legacy Clubs…

Each time a new university year starts, new students decide to pursue the creation of different clubs. They usually follow their main interest, meet with alike minded  people and decide on starting the adventure of club leading.

Some clubs are a ‘hot topic’ and get repeated year after year and this are called the legacy clubs. This year at Hult San Francisco it was the case for clubs such as Marketing and Venture.

In some other cases, the current club is a legacy club, however they are following a completely different path and strategy towards the topic, such as for example the Toast Almost Masters club. 

And there are other clubs, such as the Design Thinking, Digital Marketing, Dance Basics which are not legacy clubs but which offer good opportunities for students, and for which the leaders hope the club becomes a legacy club for the upcoming year.

Legacy clubs are a great opportunity to connect current leaders with previous year club leaders in order for them to share the experience and best-practices as leading the club. It’s a very good advantage for the current legacy clubs have, which they should make the most of….

Getting started…

Finding what your passion is and wanting to share this with other fellow students is an easy task! However, getting a club or student organization together is not as easy as it seems.

When I got to Hult San Francisco, I decided to start a club about Digital Marketing. I really love this field, and thought we could get together a good group of people who have experience in the online world, to share experiences, thoughts and learnings with every member of the club. And this is how the club was born, with the main objective of creating a new generation of digital marketing experts in Hult San Francisco.

As I decided to start this project, I have contacted all the club leaders at Hult SF in order to have their feedback. One of the main things I asked was if they had previous experience in running a club before coming to Hult and how was the process of getting the club up & running and putting a leadership team together for it.

As far as experience running a student organization or club, most of them mentioned they didn’t have any previous experience in this role. And this is something really outstanding since every club leader is doing a great job in their clubs and members are really appreciative of this! Some of the club leaders mentioned though they had some experience running sports organizations or non-profits associations and some others mentioned it’s not a common practice in their home country (just as in my case).

Putting a club together and getting a leadership team in place, is not a piece-of-cake task, and it’s different in each club. In some clubs, the person who proposed the initial idea for the club then became the president since the rest of the club members requested it to be that way. In other clubs, every member could nominate themselves via email and then everyone could vote in the final election via an online survey. In some other clubs, everyone who is willing to provide extra help becomes part of the leadership teams. And, some others, embraced the idea of a board instead of having the regular positions (president, vice-president), and instead recruited different people to take on different aspects of the club leadership and make them their own.

Hope this post helps getting a glance of what a club formation looks like from the club leaders perspective.

Keep tuned for more insights!