The SOS program helps chapters improve through sharing and finding easy-to-use ideas, resources, and practices.
What is Sharing Our Success (SOS)? The SOS program helps chapters improve through sharing and finding easy-to-use ideas, resources, and practices. For more information, review our FAQs. Your chapter can submit your best practice via the online form.
Why participate?
Earn national recognition for the great work your chapter is already doing.
Make your job as a chapter leader easier by learning from other chapter leaders' experiences.
Share your knowledge and organizational learning with other chapters.
Connect with other leaders year-round - benefit from an ongoing virtual roundtable.
Measure your accomplishments against established criteria, not against other chapters.
Chapter is in the running for Chapter of the Month if the chapter is CARE achieved.
Share your success stories with other chapters and borrow others' successful ideas - it makes us all better! SHARE - Submitting Helps Achieve Recognition and Excellence.
Looking for more information about SOS? The SOS program is managed by the Chapter Recognition Committee (CRC). Visit the CRC webpage for more information about SOS and committee contact information.
If you have questions, please contact your chapter relations manager. We look forward to working with you!
Submit a Sharing Our Success Today!
Share your chapter's best practice and a member of the Chapter Recognition Committee (CRC) will contact you shortly.
The mission of the SOS program is to foster strong, healthy chapters and promote synergy through rewarding and recognizing chapters that share their best practices with other chapters.
The SOS submission form is available online here. Chapters can submit their best practices at anytime, ideally while the information is current and relevant.
To submit an SOS, chapters must complete the online form located here. If there are supporting documents that accompany the submission they can be attached using the online form. Additional supporting documents should be emailed to your Chapter Relations Manager.
Once received, your submission will be assigned to a member of the Chapter Recognition Committee (CRC). A committee member will review the submission and contact you if they have questions or need additional information.
The SOS submission approval process can take up to four to six weeks for review and approval; each submission will vary.
Submitting your chapter’s best practices through the SOS program allows the chapter to share its knowledge and organizational learning with other chapters and helps raise the number of successful ideas available to other chapter leaders. You also earn national recognition for the great work your chapter is doing. Approved submissions receive the following:
A description of submission will be featured on the SOS webpage
A listing in the Leader Connection Newsletter (LCN)
Recognition at the ATD Chapter Leaders Conference (ALC) in Arlington, Virginia
An SOS logo for your chapter’s website
A press release template for use with local news sources
There are five categories in which chapters can submit an SOS. They include board of directors, governance, finance, communication, membership, and professional development. These categories are modeled after the Chapter Affiliation Requirements (CARE) to assist chapters with finding CARE-related best practices.
Once an SOS submission is approved, it is placed on the SOS webpage for other chapters to view. The submissions can be viewed by category with the most recent best practices listed first.
Visit the CRC webpage for additional information or email your Chapter Relations Manager.
