Advisor Resources

Your newsletter, the DECA Advisor presents advice and tips from your fellow chapter advisors. Those "Advisor/Professional Corner" articles are archived here under their appropriate topics.

The roadmap graphic on this page outlines the functions you as a chapter advisor perform. It also places those activities at the times of the year when you are most likely to be involved with each concern.

Although advisors may be doing these things at different times of the year, the graphic is an overview of a typical year. You may check these and other topics in the listing below. We continually add new material, so come to this area to get a look at what others do.

You will find more articles at the Roadmap Calendar are of this Web site.

Academic Integration
A challenge we can and must meet

Advisors
Internships
Scholarships

Benefits of DECA
For Students

Business Advisory Committee
Selecting, Using and Rewarding Members
Why have one?

Competitive Events
E-commerce events
Event Prep combined with leadership
General Advice (1)
General Advice (2)
Marketing Research Events
Mock Competition Motivates
Motivation (1)
Motivation (2)
Preparation (1)
Preparation (2)
Presentation
R Andersen
Series Role-plays
Team Decision Making Events (MDM)
Written Events (1)
Written Events (2)

DECA Diamond
Point System for the Classroom

DECA Week
Ideas

Dress
Dress Code for ICDC 2006
Professional Dress for Travel

Entrepreneurship
Organizations, Ideas, Resources, Relation to Career Clusters

Fund-raising
Ideas (1)
Ideas (2) Calendar Raffle
Ideas (3)
Learning through Fund-raising
Sales, Golf Tournament, Selling Advertising
Through Community Projects
Through Your Sales Curriculum

General Advice
Lucinda Mason
Shirlee Kyle
Kathleen Lower
Recruitment and Competitive Event Advice

Green Marketing
Let's Talk Green Marketing

International Career Development Conference
Paths to ICDC

Leadership
Event Prep combined with leadership

Membership Processing
Online, 2006

Mentoring
Kay Walters; Executive Mentor Program

Motivation
Lisa Siano

Officers
Committees
Wendy Lamb's Officer Board
Sonja Weiler
Lisa Siano

Program of Work
Bill Lind
Elk River POW
Hendersonville POW
Klamath Union POW
Klamath Union template
Minot POW

Recruitment
Bill Lind

School-based Enterprises
Certification
Handling Finances
Healthy Food Choices
Upscale SBE

Scholarships
Lind (student)
Advisor

Soft Skills
What are soft skills?
Teaching the Soft Skills

Travel Tips
Nathan McCormick
Travel

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