ONLINE BOOTCAMP

5 Principles of Effective Leadership: A Bootcamp for Leaders at All Levels

April 5 – May 3, 2023
Individual Dates: April 5, 12, 19, 26, and May 3, 2023

Ground your leadership in your personal and professional values, and take your management skills to the next level.

Overview

Authentic leadership is not granted by positional authority but is instead earned over time, and through specific behaviors. In higher education, where responsibility and authority do not always go hand in hand, we must cultivate a model of leadership that prizes building trust, collaborating with others, and leading with purpose.

Join us online for a five-week leadership bootcamp that draws upon "The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership." This model is proposed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner in their book The Leadership Challenge, which posits that good leaders display certain core behaviors at their peak no matter their culture, gender, age, or other identities. It is a simple but powerful model for elevating and expressing your leadership, regardless of your role at your institution. The five practices are:

Modeling the Way: Clarify and strengthen your leadership values, explore the values of your team, and set examples to align actions with shared values.
Inspiring a Shared Vision: Develop and communicate a shared common purpose in order to build trust and cohesion in your team.
Enabling Others to Act: Build and motivate your team by developing high levels of trust.
Challenging the Process: Navigate team and institutional changes with the intent of uniting and leading your team effectively through change.
Encouraging the Heart: Explore different types of empathy, and learn critical listening skills as a means for building stronger communication within your team.

This bootcamp is comprised of expert instruction, group discussion, personal reflection, and small-group activities. A cornerstone of the bootcamp will be your leadership workbook, which will guide you through understanding and mastering the concepts of the model and, more importantly, how to integrate them into your daily leadership practice. You will also have the opportunity to receive feedback from peers within your cohort as well as from your expert instructor, which will help you to define and inform your leadership goals. Our expert instructor will anchor the concepts in the higher education landscape so that you’ll walk away with a tailored action plan that identifies areas in which to focus your efforts going forward.

A Highly Personalized Experience

Your registration for this bootcamp includes a 30-minute individual consultation with the presenter, Therese Lask. A hallmark of the Academic Impressions bootcamp experience, the personalized attention you’ll receive through this individual consultation will help you to apply best practices from the bootcamp to your own leadership development. To preserve the intimate and interactive nature of this training, the bootcamp is limited to 30 participants. Register early to reserve your spot!

What to Expect

In this Academic Impressions bootcamp, you will get:

Five weekly 3-hour live online sessions. Our expert instructor facilitates each session and includes time for small-group discussions and self-reflection to help you explore your leadership values and give you key strategies for implementation.
A customized workbook to help you reflect and apply the learning to your own context. The workbook is designed by Academic Impressions coaches and instructional designers with the intent to support your individualized learning. The workbook will be used within each of the live sessions.
An individual 30-minute consultation with Therese Lask to help you to prioritize and implement your leadership plan and apply it to your individual context.
Group work and discussion time to develop a supportive network of leaders, spark ideas, and receive feedback.

Who Should Attend

This program is ideal for both current and aspiring higher education leaders. Whether you have zero years of leadership experience or many, this bootcamp will help you to reflect on your purpose and vision for the future. We encourage you to attend if you are aspiring to your first formal leadership role or if you are at a Manager or Director level, including Academic Chair, Program Director, or Assistant or Associate Dean.

Follow Through With Success Coaching

Have you ever gone to a training only to find that you came back with great ideas but don’t have the time, support, or skills needed to make the changes?

Academic Impressions has produced thousands of trainings and we have learned that utilizing a coach after attending a program helps provide accountability and bridges the training with the on-the-ground work of getting the job done.

As a result, we are now offering success coaching on select programs.

Purchase this training + 3 one hour follow up success coaching calls
Work with an assigned coach who has extensive experience in higher ed.
Get individualized support to help you follow through on what you’ve learned.
Workshop your plans, run your ideas by someone and get additional help/practice.

To get success coaching, simply purchase the Bootcamp + Success Coaching product below.

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Hear About the Bootcamp Experience

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The Academic Impressions Bootcamp Experience: Dr. Jeffrey Malanson

Dr. Jeffrey Malanson: The way the experience was structured, it provided a tremendous amount of flexibility to self-pace a lot of the material in a way that made the most sense for your schedule. But then you had the weekly structure of the Thursday and Friday face-to-face, in-person sessions, which were much better and more effective than I was expecting given everyone's Zoom fatigue these days.

I generally think of myself as being a pretty reflective person, a self-reflective person, but was really impressed with the degree to which some of the activities we did made me confirm things I'd already thought about myself. But a lot of the activities really opened my eyes to the strategies I use in crisis situations and the way I communicate with other people, and the way maybe I need to do a better job of communicating with other people. A better understanding of the different buttons leaders can push to get better results out of their teams and to get better buy-in from the people that are working with.

One of the hard parts about a conference is you want to pack as much learning and as much experience as you can into the time you're there. So by halfway through the second day or after lunch or whatever, you're feeling pretty tired, maybe not as engaged with the material. So the online workshop really allowed you to engage with material on a timeline when you were prepared to do that when you're prepared to learn the most, and really engage in, and then, you can ramp up for those weekly sessions each week and make sure you were fully prepared.

One of the nice parts is that the way they structured our bootcamp is that whenever we did little breakout sessions, they tended to put us with the same smaller group of people. So you had an opportunity, even if it was just in 10 or 15 minutes increments, to start building a longer-term relationship and to learn more from each other, rather than needing to essentially do new icebreaker events or get to know each other for the first time each week. You really got to build some relationships over time, which was really nice.

The focus on leadership philosophy that came from the bootcamp has really been eye-opening in terms of really thinking carefully about each experience I pursue, each opportunity I pursue, each interaction I have, "How is this confirming who I am, or how is this deviating from who I want to be? How is this getting me to that next step in my career?"

The two pieces of advice are one, make sure you really have the time to engage with the material each week. Then two would be to make sure you come to the participatory sessions ready, able, and willing to engage. It's not the kind of experience where you can passively sit back and just absorb what others are saying and really fully benefit from it. You need to be willing to do the work, engage with the material, talk to your peers because that's when you will fully be able to benefit from the experience.

The Academic Impressions Bootcamp Experience: Dr. Marilyn Odom

Dr. Marilyn Odom: Well, I have been department chair for a little over four years, and with many academicians, we move into these leadership positions without having any formal training in leadership, so I try to seek out opportunities where I can. I had attended a conference by AI and I was really impressed with it. So when I saw this opportunity, I thought it would a good experience for me. I approached my Dean, he said yes and we did it.

I thought it was probably one of the best experiences of my academic career. I'd learned so much, I reflected a lot, I pulled things out that I had not thought about in a while. I had not really thought about my leadership philosophy in eons. It gave me an opportunity to think about that, reflect on it, to really pull out my core values.

Now I have my new leadership philosophy printed out and it stays right here in front of me, between my two monitors and at my keyboard, and I look at it. Especially when I'm about to have a meeting with my faculty, I will look at it and I will read it and I will remind myself what my philosophy is, and remind myself to stick to that philosophy. Whether that means I'm about to have a good conversation where I'm going to build them up even more, more, more, or if it's going to be a not so good conversation where I have to hold them accountable. But I have that, and that is probably the most significant impact that I took away from the bootcamp.

Other than the leadership philosophy, one thing that I know that I probably had not been as attentive to is really telling my faculty how great they are. Because I chair a department, and I probably had not just applauded them enough. I did do some, I will not say that I did not do any, but to recognize that.

Just do it. Go in open-minded. Be prepared to work, be prepared to think, be prepared to reflect, but just do it. I told my Dean that this money was well worth it, it was a good investment.

“An excellent conference bridging the big picture to the hands-on. Therese Lask is extremely knowledgeable and experienced, and she skillfully facilitated wisdom-packed conversations with colleagues from all over. It was well worth the time and money used for this.”

- Peter Martin

Virginia Commonwealth University (Qatar campus)

“This workshop is an excellent opportunity for new managers or managers shifting roles to ground themselves in their values and gain valuable skills to lead through change. The facilitator approaches difficult conversations with care and provides thoughtful critiques that will take your management skills to the next level. In the weeks after I began the course, I already started seeing a shift in my team's dynamics.”

- Roxie Patton

Director, Office of Social Justice, Inclusion, and Conflict Resolution, Rowan University

OUTLINE

April 5 – May 3, 2023
Individual Dates: April 5, 12, 19, 26, and May 3, 2023

Module 1

April 5, 2023 — 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
Principle 1: Modeling the Way
This welcome/kick-off provides an important time for us to get to know each other in the cohort. We will learn about each person’s priorities in order to align everyone’s work and focus to their specific context.

Drawing on the principle of Modeling the Way, we will focus on ways to clarify your values, find and strengthen your voice, explore the shared values of your team on campus, and set examples to align actions with those shared values.

Module 2

April 12, 2023 — 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
Principle 2: Inspiring a Shared Vision and Principle 3: Enabling Others to Act
As leaders often work in silos, all leaders need to learn how to build a common purpose. In this session, we will first imagine and explore new and exciting opportunities for finding a common purpose to embody the principle of Inspiring a Shared Vision.

Central to leadership is building trust to inspire and motivate others. Focusing on the principle of Enabling Others to Act, in this step we shift our attention to the propensity to trust, and what it takes to facilitate relationships by increasing self-determination and developing competence.

Module 3

April 19, 2023 — 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
Principle 4: Challenging the Process
Even with a common purpose, all leaders need to explore ways to navigate the extensive changes faced in higher ed. Drawing on the principle of Challenging the Process, here we will explore change leadership, gain understanding of how people experience change, and look at the foundations of effective team change.

Module 4

April 26, 2023 — 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
Principle 5: Encouraging the Heart and a Reflective Workshop
To foster the clear and transparent communication central for all successful leaders, we draw upon the principle of Encouraging the Heart, in which we will examine ways to recognize contributions by showing appreciation for individual excellence and the importance of celebrating values and victories. We will also explore empathy in the workplace today, as well as different types of compassion, and practice level-six listening as a means to build empathy in your team.

This open-house-style module is a chance for everyone to workshop their ideas, focus on their workbook, reflect on their learning, and find ways to integrate and implement ideas. Between Modules 4 and 5, you will also have the opportunity to meet with Therese Lask for consultation sessions in order to discuss your leadership plan's priorities and implement that plan to your individual context.

Module 5

May 3 2023 — 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET
Bringing It All Together and Next Steps
In our final session together, you will have an opportunity to present and receive feedback on your leadership plan from the cohort. We will close the bootcamp by sharing ideas for maintaining your momentum after this powerful learning experience.

INSTRUCTOR

Therese Lask

Head of Practice for Leadership, Academic Impressions

Dr. Therese Lask has held a variety of leadership positions in higher education throughout her 27-year career. Her experience ranges from working in private, public and community college with roles in Student Affairs, Academic Affairs, Development, and Operations. From a variety of roles and experiences, Therese has followed her purpose of helping individuals to grow and develop.

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Get individualized support to help you follow through on what you've learned
Workshop your plans, run your ideas by someone and get additional help/practice

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Workshop your plans, run your ideas by someone and get additional help/practice

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Therese Lask
Head of Practice for Leadership,
Academic Impressions