1. Head Counselor Certification Course Berean Council Sept. 11, 2013 Brian Kemper vinelandcadets@live.ca

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

3. Being a Head Counselor means understanding some important tools. LET’S SEE IF WE CAN DISCOVER THESE TOOLS.

4. 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

5. Welcome to your new job. Time to get to work. What is my job? As you sit there, you realize that you have no idea what is expected of you in this job!

6. 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.

7. So here we have discovered one important tool. CLEAR EXPECTATIONS

8. 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.

9. Please write down three reasons you would give for the need for accountability

10. So here we have discovered the second important tool.ACCOUNTABILITY

11. 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

12. 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.

13. * Cadres * Club * Recruiting Counselors and Cadets

14. * Goals * Developing a Program * Activities * Budgeting * Delegating

15. * Providing vision * Motivating counselors * Motivating boys * Spiritual guidance

17. * … with Corps * …with Cadet Council * …with Church Council * …with Parents * …With Counselors * …With boys

18. * Go to slide 34

19. Please open your Head Counselor Certification Course booklet. Read the Introduction on the top of page 2

20. Notice that the on the left side of the booklet are the page references to the location of the answers in Head Counselors Handbook

21. What is Cadeting?  The Goal of Cadeting  Program Levels Questions 1 & 2

22. The Head Counselor  The Head Counselor’s Job Description  The Head Counselor’s Code Questions 3 - 4

23. Counselors Recruiting Counselors Preparing Counselors Junior Counselors Questions 5 - 9

24. Club Registration Church Offerings Club memberships Questions 10 - 11

25. nCadres n Cadre Officers Structure Questions 12 - 14 Cadres Cadre Officers

26. Uniform Supplies Cadet Supplies Supplies Questions 15 - 16

27. Annual Planning Calender Club Activities Make a Plan Planning Questions 17 - 19

28. Leadership Profile Delegating Leading Question 20 - 22

29. HC & his Church HC & Corps Communicating Questions 23 - 24

30. Meeting Evaluation Season Evaluation Controlling Questions 25 - 26

31. Dynamic Youth Ministries Questions 27

32. Council Level Corps Level Counselor Education Questions 28 - 29

33. Church Offerings Start-up costs Questions 30

34. This completes the course

35. * 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 …

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