News

Date:               3 September 2008

Contact:         Len Brzozowski                                   Laurel Bauer

513-745-3444                             513-745-3240

 

The Marines are coming. Xavier University’s Leadership Center is offering a Leadership Boot Camp from October 8-10 at Camp Friedlander for those individuals and companies who want to strengthen their leadership capabilities.

 

Modeled after the Marine Leadership program at Quantico and led by Marines, the camp is a combination of forced teamwork, true grit and physical and mental challenges. The biggest issue facing today’s leaders is speed. Many leaders spend too much time analyzing and lose key opportunities. Those who want to be successful must master the ability to move quickly and stay focused, gathering needed facts as quickly as possible. The Marine Corps teaches loyalty both upward and downward and recognizes that many within a team can lead. Commanders rely on front line officers to make the best decisions in critical situations. CEOs, in turn, must adopt a sense of solidarity and be willing to delegate and trust team members.

 

In the Boot Camp, individual goals are not achieved until everybody on the team survives every station on the Boot Camp course. Participants push themselves to their physical limits and together meet every obstacle thrown at them. They leave secure that their own personal determination and team camaraderie made the difference between success and failure.

 

“Companies realize the importance that leadership plays in achieving long term success. This course is unique in that it teaches mangers the concepts of leadership through experience, not just the classroom, enabling them to immediately implement the concepts within their organizations” says David Keszei, Director of Business Development at Xavier Leadership Center.

 

Keszei has more than 20 years experience as a Marine officer and F/A- 18 fighter pilot. He is a graduate of the Marine Corps’ coveted Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course, (aka Top Gun) and has completed 2 tours in Iraq.  He is a graduate of the Executive MBA program of Xavier’s Williams College of Business and specializes in leadership development and coaching

 

The cost of the three-day course is $1,500. There is an enrollment maximum of 25. Organizations can send teams or individuals can attend on their own. Participants will benefit from learning to form a solid team from a group of people who do not know one another. For information and reservations, please call 513-745-3396.

 

“We talk a lot about the importance of culture in driving organizational performance,” says Len Brzozowski, Executive Director of the Xavier Leadership Center. “But many companies struggle with how to build a deliberate culture that consistently encourages the right employee behaviors. In this boot camp, participants are thrust into the middle of a very thick culture, and experience first-hand how the Marines create it.”

 

The Xavier Leadership Center helps organizations creatively manage and lead their people, through the use of high-impact facilitated learning experiences. Programs draw upon faculty from across the Xavier campus, together with many experienced industry practitioners who can expose executives and their managers to both theory and practice.

 

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