Leadership Boot Camp: Effective Leadership

For any business to not only survive, but also grow and remain profitable, its team must master crucial skills in management and leadership: skills that will differentiate an organization when economic and inter-personal crises occur, and create the most innovative and effective leaders within.

Florida Atlantic University’s Management and Leadership programs guide students to develop advanced practices in management and leadership and become the next generation of leaders.

Format:
Tues./Wed./Thurs.
On Campus

Date/Hours:
August 12 - 14, 2025
8:00am - 4:30pm
22.5 Hours - PDUs
2.25 CEUs

Sessions:
3

Price:
$1350

Don't miss your chance — sign up now! Limited seats available!

COURSE BENEFITS

In today’s business world, leaders are faced with having to take on more responsibility with fewer resources: people, money and time. Your ability to manage and influence up, down and across an organization is the key to your success at every level – and now it is more challenging than ever.

Florida Atlantic University’s Leadership Boot Camp: Effective Leadership program will educate managers on how to harness the abilities of employees to increase productivity with fewer resources, communicate effectively, and manage in an ever-changing environment. Managers will gain insight and skills which can be immediately applied in the workplace.

The program is filled with practical tools that will help managers create a passionate and vibrant group of dedicated employees who will propel your organization to excellence. The Leadership Boot Camp is a hands-on, real world dynamic program designed to make you a better leader.

"The knowledge and amount of information covered in three days is invaluable. Class was a great pace. Instructors entertaining - Must Attend!"

Allison Mengel, Recruiting Manager, Aleut Federal

"The knowledge learned from this course will help me with being a more effective and successful leader driving our program to success and my team to excellence."

Sandra Samamé, Executive Director, St. Thomas University Office of Public Guardian

"The instructors are excellent and a wealth of knowledge who I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to learn from. Every minute of this boot camp is worth it."

Megan Rutter, PIO, State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection

CURRICULUM DESCRIPTION

Florida Atlantic University’s Leadership Boot Camp: Effective Leadership is an intensive Management & Leadership Development Certificate Program, designed for Supervisors, Managers and Senior Leaders, and which combines proven-in-action techniques with peer interaction and insights from the latest research to help you master the competencies of effective leadership. It will benefit anyone with managerial responsibility that requires strong decision-making skills and the ability to lead and motivate others.

This program is divided into 3-days, and includes core topics which address key subject areas necessary for management success:

Part I: Understanding Your Challenges as a Manager

Not all Managers are Leaders! We discuss what it takes to be a leader and have people follow you WILLINGLY. All leaders have goals and failing to plan is the same as planning to fail. Therefore managers need to be able to think and plan strategically and inspire their people to achieve their goals. This section discusses both strategic and tactical planning and shows the importance of group involvement in the process.

Key topics include:

Leadership Principles & Best Practices
Leading vs. Managing
The Leader’s World View
Values Based on Leadership for the Digital Era

Part II: Managing for Maximum Performance and Results

The attitudes and habits of a leader are the propellant to their success. The focus of the session is to help managers at all levels think and act like those leaders for whom people WANT to work. We discuss the principles of "people first" leadership by creating thinkers - not doers. This section discusses how to motivate others to want to do what you need done and develop techniques for managing generational differences and effecting positive change. You will learn key techniques of productive communication and how to implement those tools for maximum team performance.

Key topics include:

Building Success Attitudes and Productive Habits
Keys to Motivating Your Team
Effectively Managing Time and Change
Handling Generational Differences
Communicating for Performance Excellence

Part II also includes an individual DiSC^® assessment per participant.

DiSC^® is the leading personal assessment tool used to improve work productivity, teamwork and communication. DiSC is non-judgmental and helps associates within organizations discuss behavioral differences as they relate to performance.

Part III: Communication Skills for Leaders:

When you become responsible for managing people, it is paramount to communicate effectively with yourself and others. In this session, you will learn the effect of both verbal and non-verbal communication, become aware of language/ cultural patterns, the importance of rapport, and how to mediate conflict.

Key topics include:

How to Maximize Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
Self-Awareness / Awareness of Others and Cultural Differences
Perceptual Filters
Language Patterns
Exploring Conflict

Participants are encouraged to bring their own management questions and get answers from executive leadership experts - experts who have improved the performance of executives and their teams around the world using proven and powerful listening and empowerment techniques.

IDEAL CANDIDATE

Ideal candidates include:

Supervisors, Managers and Senior Leaders
Individuals who excel in their specialty but who would like to learn additional management techniques
Individuals with managerial responsibility that requires strong decision-making skills and the ability to lead and motivate others

BOOKS AND MATERIALS

Materials and individual DiSC^® assessment are included in program fee.

PHR^®/SPHR^® Credits!

This program has been pre-approved for 22.5 HR (General) credit hours toward aPHR^®, aPHRi^™, PHR^®, PHRca^®, SPHR^®, GPHR^®, PHRi^™ and SPHRi^™ recertification through HR Certification Institute^® (HRCI^®).

For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org.

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FACULTY

NANCY PROFFITT

Nancy Proffitt is a certified Executive Coach dedicated to enhancing the management and leadership capabilities of managers, individuals and

KAREN PFEFFER

At age 15, Karen Pfeffer came to the U.S. from Venezuela. With a father from Kansas and a mother from Puerto Rico, Karen has a unique cultural

mix that has inspired her to challenge stereotypes and “push the envelope” at every opportunity.

Karen began her career by entering the male-dominated field of banking, and became the first woman president of the Florida Bank Marketing Association. In 1991 she founded a full-service marketing and advertising agency, What a Concept! As the agency grew, it expanded the range of services offered and market segments served to encompass a wide range of industries. In 2002 the agency changed its name to Pfeffer Marketing Group, providing strategic and creative marketing for local, national and international clients such as Sprint and Bausch & Lomb. Karen also became a certified practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) – an approach to communication and personal development, through the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

In 2006 Karen co-founded Fire Power Seminars, providing powerful programs for communication, empowerment, team building and transformation. Through embodied cognition – engaging both the mind and the body in a safe environment – behaviors can shift with experiential activities. Fire Power Seminars’ bold approach to creating customized programs such as “Overcoming Obstacles”, “Step Into Your Power”, “The Power of Team” and “Building Bikes, Empowering Children” is based on understanding individuals’ and organizations’ unique challenges.

As a certified NLP practitioner, Karen offers Breakthrough Coaching for breaking through limiting beliefs and unproductive patterns, assisting individuals, executives and companies to increase their effectiveness.

Karen is a Certified Firewalk Instructor, Facilitator and Keynote Presenter. Her guiding philosophy: “Expectancy determines outcome”. In her spare time, Karen loves to travel, ride her motorcycle and entertain musically with her guitar. And, she has devoted countless hours to counseling individuals in need.

WILHELMENA MACK

Dr. Wilhelmena Mack has over 35 years of experience in organizational and management consulting, human resources, training and development, community outreach and collegiate instruction.

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