Follow through on your commitments to each other, to the fraternity and to your projects. The responsibility for building the relationship must be shared between the adviser and the student. Share your needs, responsibilities, and expectations with each other. Be prepared to negotiate roles and responsibilities. Accept the responsibility of providing continuity to the chapter.
Advisers can help new members and leaders remember how things have been done in the past.
Everyone is a learner and everyone is a teacher. Remind students that they are alumni members a lot longer than they are undergraduate members. Meet the students where they are at developmentally and intervene in ways which will help them progress to more advanced stages. Listen more than you talk. Distinguish between tangible observations and intangible inferences about what you have heard or seen.