Head Counselor Certification

CourseBerean Council

Sept. 11, 2013

Brian Kempervinelandcadets@live.ca

Introductions: Your name, your club, what you are looking forward to the most in the upcoming Cadet season.

Being a Head Counselor means understanding some

important tools.

LET’S SEE IF WE CAN DISCOVER THESE TOOLS.

You have just arrived at a new job and the boss greets you and takes you to your office. He tells you he has a meeting to attend and so he leaves you to get settled in and start working on your own.

Scenario

Please think about why it is important to understand what is expected of you

in your job.

Write down three reasons

on the hand out

What is my job?

Welcome to your new job. Time to get to work.

So here we have discovered one important tool.

CLEAR EXPECTATIONS

The boss returns and explains that one of the problems they have discovered is that no one is being held accountable for the work they do.

Scenario – Part 2

He states that your job is to explain to the employees why it is important that they be held accountable for doing their jobs.

Please write down

three reasons

you would give

for the need for

accountability

So here we have discovered the second

important tool.

ACCOUNTABILITY

For counselors of a club

To perform effectively, we need two things ...

1. Clear expectations.

2. Accountability for meeting those expectations.

So we have discovered

*Two Paths

Path #1

*Answer the questions in your head counselor manual tonight.

Path #2

*Discuss/share five major parts of leadership*Organizing

*Planning

*Leading

*Communicating

*Controlling

*Answer questions in the manual on your own.

*Organizing

*Cadres

*Club

*Recruiting Counselors and Cadets

*Planning

*Goals

*Developing a Program

*Activities

*Budgeting

*Delegating

*Leading

*Providing vision

*Motivating counselors

*Motivating boys

*Spiritual guidance

*Communicating

*…with Corps

*…with Cadet Council

*…with Church Council

*…with Parents

*…With Counselors

*…With boys

*Go to slide 34

Please open yourHead Counselor Certification

Course booklet.

Read the Introduction on the top of

page 2

Notice that the on the left side of the booklet are the page references

to the location of the answers in Head Counselors Handbook

What is Cadeting?

n The Goal of Cadeting

n Program Levels

Questions 1 & 2

The Head Counselor

n The Head Counselor’s Job Description

n The Head Counselor’s Code

Questions 3 - 4

Counselors

Recruiting Counselors

Preparing Counselors

n Junior Counselors

Questions 5 - 9

n Club Registration

n Church Offerings

Club memberships

Questions 10 - 11

n Cadres

nCadre Officers

Structure

Questions 12 - 14

n Cadres

n Cadre Officers

n Uniform Supplies

n Cadet Supplies

Supplies

Questions 15 - 16

n Annual Planning Calender

n Club Activities

n Make a Plan

Planning

Questions 17 - 19

n Leadership Profile

n Delegating

Leading

Question 20 - 22

n HC & his Church

n HC & Corps

Communicating

Questions 23 - 24

n Meeting Evaluation

n Season Evaluation

Controlling

Questions 25 - 26

Dynamic Youth Ministries

Questions 27

n Council Level

n Corps Level

Counselor Education

Questions 28 - 29

n Church Offerings

Start-up costs

Questions 30

This completesthe course

* Collect your booklets

* Return your booklets and distribute the head counselor stripes

* Send the list of names and addresses to the Corps office so certificates can be mailed to you

Please make sure you fill in the back of your booklet

The DCE Team will …

Thanks for attending. Please fill out an evaluation form or send your comments to vinelandcadets@live.ca.