Welcome to Florida DECA!
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Florida DECA
    • Helping Hands >
      • Helping Hands History
      • Helping Hands Achievement Award
      • Helping Hands Collections
      • Nominate Your Charity for Helping Hands
    • Chartered Association Leadership Team
    • Leadership >
      • Board of Advisors
      • Florida DECA, Inc.
      • Who's Who at DECA, Inc.
      • Contact
    • Awards & Honors >
      • Honorary Life Membership
      • Outstanding Service
      • Hall of Fame
      • Awards of Merit
      • Eagles Dare to Achieve Award
      • "100 Club" Chapters
      • Officer Coordinators' Award
      • Diamond Chapters: Annual Business Plan
      • Annual Business Plan Chapters
    • Start a New Chapter
  • Competitions
    • DECA Guidelines
  • Conferences
    • 2019-2020 Conferences
    • Emerging Leaders Summit
    • DECA STATES!
    • Travel Ventures
    • FL CDC Results
  • Officers
    • TEAM 63 2020-2021
    • TEAM 64 2021-2022
    • Team 65 Candidate Information
    • Past Teams >
      • Team 62 >
        • Team 62 Blog
        • Team 62 ABP for Chapters
      • Team 61 >
        • Team 61 Blog
        • Team 61 Annual Business Plan
    • Chapter Chatter Guide
    • International Officers from Florida DECA
    • International DECA Officers
  • Members
    • Florida DECA Leadership Council
    • FL DLC Nomination
    • Chapter Chatter Blog
    • Alumni
    • DECA DIRECT
    • Global Entrepreneurship Week
    • DECA Scholarships
    • Dollars for Diamonds Scholarships
    • DECA in College
    • Shop DECA Images
  • Advisors
    • Advisor News
    • Advisor Resources
    • Global Entrepreneurship Week
    • Logos-Chapter
  • Judges/Partners

Connection is the KEY to Greatness!

9/6/2013

0 Comments

 
Many of you reading this post are officers for your school’s DECA chapter.  But are you great officers?  That is a question that you should be asking yourself. 

Am I doing the best that I can? 

Am I doing my job? 

Am I getting chapter members involved? 

Am I a great leader? 

Being a great officer isn’t easy.  Promoting DECA activities and competition to students, who honestly sometimes don’t care, can be really difficult.  Through my experiences as a DECA officer at both the chapter and the state level, I can tell you that by getting chapter members involved at meetings and in decision making, helps to make them interested about those activities.

By putting a poll on your Facebook page (favorite T-Shirt design or what food to have at the next meeting) for members to give their input can help them feel more involved and accepted by your group. 

By personally texting members saying that you would love to have them come to the next meeting, you are creating a connection between that person and DECA, a connection that they will continuously think about.  In life and in DECA, a little personal contact can go a long way.

Making members feel welcomed and accepted in DECA is the most important thing about being a great officer!  If you do that, all of the other things will fall into place, and now you will have friends to help you with the work required to do those things!

As always, if you have any questions on being a great DECA officer or anything else, please feel free to email me at zack@fldeca.org or send me a message on Facebook.  I challenge all of you to be the best DECA officer that you can!  

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Zack Schaja
    Team 54 President

    Archives

    March 2014
    January 2014
    September 2013
    August 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Thank You for Visiting Florida DECA. Contact Website Manager: web@fldeca.org, Entire Site © 2021
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Florida DECA
    • Helping Hands >
      • Helping Hands History
      • Helping Hands Achievement Award
      • Helping Hands Collections
      • Nominate Your Charity for Helping Hands
    • Chartered Association Leadership Team
    • Leadership >
      • Board of Advisors
      • Florida DECA, Inc.
      • Who's Who at DECA, Inc.
      • Contact
    • Awards & Honors >
      • Honorary Life Membership
      • Outstanding Service
      • Hall of Fame
      • Awards of Merit
      • Eagles Dare to Achieve Award
      • "100 Club" Chapters
      • Officer Coordinators' Award
      • Diamond Chapters: Annual Business Plan
      • Annual Business Plan Chapters
    • Start a New Chapter
  • Competitions
    • DECA Guidelines
  • Conferences
    • 2019-2020 Conferences
    • Emerging Leaders Summit
    • DECA STATES!
    • Travel Ventures
    • FL CDC Results
  • Officers
    • TEAM 63 2020-2021
    • TEAM 64 2021-2022
    • Team 65 Candidate Information
    • Past Teams >
      • Team 62 >
        • Team 62 Blog
        • Team 62 ABP for Chapters
      • Team 61 >
        • Team 61 Blog
        • Team 61 Annual Business Plan
    • Chapter Chatter Guide
    • International Officers from Florida DECA
    • International DECA Officers
  • Members
    • Florida DECA Leadership Council
    • FL DLC Nomination
    • Chapter Chatter Blog
    • Alumni
    • DECA DIRECT
    • Global Entrepreneurship Week
    • DECA Scholarships
    • Dollars for Diamonds Scholarships
    • DECA in College
    • Shop DECA Images
  • Advisors
    • Advisor News
    • Advisor Resources
    • Global Entrepreneurship Week
    • Logos-Chapter
  • Judges/Partners