Missouri School Counselor
Association
and
MSCA Region Emerging
Leaders
We are looking for
Level 5 Leaders
Do you exhibit these skills?
Disciplined
Good to Great Leadership…
“We believe that greatness is not
primarily a function of
circumstance; it is first
and foremost a function of
conscious choice – and discipline.
It is up to us.”
Jim Collins
Are you interested in being an
MSCA leader?
Great Emerging Leaders
• Disciplined People
– Level 5 Leadership
– First Who, Then What
• Disciplined Thought
– Confront the Brutal Facts
• Disciplined Action
– Culture of Discipline
Disciplined People
Level 5 Leadership:
Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away
from themselves and into the larger goal of
building a great organization. It’s not that Level 5
leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they
are incredibly ambitious-but their ambition is
first and foremost for the association, not
themselves.
Get the “RIGHT people on the bus.”
First Who, Then What:
1. Get the RIGHT people on the bus.
2. Put the RIGHT people in the right seats on the bus.
3. Then figure out where to drive.
Old adage… “People are your most important Asset” turns out to be
wrong. People are not your most important asset. The RIGHT
people are.
That’s why it’s important for MSCA and MSCA Districts to have the right
people in the right places.
Some thoughts…
The organization or group is
bigger than any one
individual. No one person is
more important than the
organization. It’s never about
you.
Disciplined Thought
Confront the Brutal Facts:
1. Maintain faith
2. Attitude… you will prevail in the end regardless
of the difficulties
3. Discipline to face the BRUTAL FACTS of your
current reality… whatever they might be.
Disciplined Action
Culture of Discipline
Some groups have Culture and some have Discipline, but
few groups have Culture of Discipline.
– When you have disciplined people you don’t need
hierarchy, don’t need bureaucracy, or excessive control,
– When you combine a culture of discipline you get
great performance.
– That’s why we need “Great Emerging Leaders.”
Good to Great Leadership…
Clarifies roles by…
– Finding and allowing people to do what
they do best
– Finding and allowing people to do what
only they can do
MSCA Goverance Leadership
• Goverance Structure
• Goverance Training for:
Director, Management Company, Leadership
Team, Governing Board and Committees
• Goals and Progress determined by Ends
Policies
The Purpose…
…Is to achieve what we should
•What good to accomplish
•For whom
•At what cost or relative worth
Good To Great…
•ENDS describe the changes to be made
for persons outside the organization or
group.
•100% of the budget and goals should
benefit the membership.
•MSCA and MSCA Regions need leaders
who can assist in the END results.
Ends…
What are we
passionate about?
What we can be
best in the world at?
What drives our
economic
and resource
engine?
Development of State and Region
Emerging Leaders
•
MSCA Governing Board
•
MSCA Program Committee (Management Co.)
•
MSCA Committees
•
Region Officers and Leaders (12 MSCA Regions)
•
Developing Emerging Leadership Skills
WHAT SHOULD YOU EXPECT?
Think…
• What are your opportunities to be a part of
MSCA or your MSCA Region Leadership
Team?
• What can you do in this association or your
own school better than anyone else?
Emerging Leadership
The MSCA Emerging Leader Program…
• Are you a potential leader in the school
counseling profession?
• Do you want to get involved and improve
your leadership skills?
Then consider this NEW leadership
program for MSCA (2 year pilot)
Our professional association journey…
ASCA, MSCA and Region Leadership Stories…
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Region Committee Chairperson
Region President and Leader
MSCA Committee Chairperson
MSCA Leadership Team/Officer (MSCA President, President-Elect,
Level VP, Treasurer, Program Committee Sec.)
• MSCA Past President/ASCA Officer
Again…
The organization is bigger
than any one individual. No
one person is more important
than the organization. It’s
never about you.
Where do I sign up?
1. Join your professional associations.
2. Volunteer to be a committee chairperson
3. Run for office (Region) if you feel comfortable doing that
(President-Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, Level VP)
4. If you run for President-Elect you will serve on the MSCA
Program Committee
5. The next year as President you will serve on the MSCA
Governing Board.
6. Volunteer to stay involved with the MSCA Program
Committee or a committee chairperson
7. Run for a state or national office.
“Leadership is the art
of accomplishing more than the science
of management says is possible.”
Colin Powell