Fraternal

Our industry-leading learning management system (LMS), PlaidLMS, is here to help you seamlessly manage your organization’s learning experiences. Designed with learners and educators in mind, PlaidLMS provides an end-to-end learning environment that supports content hosting, progress tracking, and systems integration. Want to provide a customized experience for your learners featuring your brand imagery? PlaidLMS can do that too. 

PlaidLMS is also integrated with a number of customer relationship management (CRM) platforms, including OmegaFi and ChapterSpot. If assessment and research are a part of your learning goals, PlaidLMS is integrated with Qualtrics to assist with data collection.

High-quality and engaging curriculum is central to creating meaningful learning experiences. Whether you are looking to build a curriculum for a new learning experience or need assistance with reviewing and revising existing program content, our team of instructional designers can help you to fulfill learning outcomes and learning goals. Our curriculum design and review services are applicable to learning experiences deployed in-person, online, or in hybrid settings.

Plaid has been conducting research for the fraternal industry since its founding. We assist fraternal partners and campuses in collecting and/or drawing insights from their data to make informed decisions about operations and programming to fulfill their organization’s mission, vision, and goals of their strategic plan.

Many of the Plaid team members previously worked for headquarters staff or in a campus-based role and are aware of the unique day-to-day undertakings of professionals who support fraternal organizations.   Plaid provides engaging and insightful training experiences delivered through in-person, online, or hybrid facilitation to help onboard new employees, foster team dynamics, or navigate organizational changes.  Our staff training is tailored to meet the needs and interests of each organization we work with.

We know that personal development plays an essential role in the fraternal industry.  From undergraduates to alumni, fraternal organizations strive to provide lifelong personal development opportunities.  Plaid partners with Birkman to provide the most comprehensive personal development tool to our clients.  Plaid utilizes the Birkman to facilitate conversations on how individuals can better understand their needs, interests, and stress behaviors while also understanding those characteristics in others.  In addition, Plaid offers custom workshops and programs over a variety of personal development topics that can be customized to meet the learning outcomes of our clients.

We know there are many internal and external factors that impact a chapter’s health and development.  Plaid offers programs that focus on improving the culture within a chapter community and aids in developing and elevating the organization.  These programs provide fraternal based organizations the opportunity to overcome group dysfunction and negative behavior while going through a culture shifting curriculum.

Creating a strategic plan is no easy feat. Plaid can assist in  creating, monitoring, marketing a strategic plan.  We help  to facilitate a strategic planning process tailored to the mission and vision of each fraternal organization  in order to set goals, determine actions to achieve the goals, and mobilize resources to execute the actions.  Plaid provides clear timelines and expectations to ensure a strategic plan is ready for timely implementation. Our strategic planning process is data-informed and aims to generate a comprehensive plan to market a new strategic plan to generate excitement and buy-in from internal and external constituents.