Next Step → Leading™ is designed to help emerging and new leaders move from understanding leadership concepts to applying them effectively in real-world daily situations.
What You Will Develop
Leadership in Real Situations
Strong leadership is not built through knowledge alone.
It develops through communication, decision-making, delegation, accountability, and navigating complex team dynamics in real time.
This program helps participants lead with greater clarity, confidence, and effectiveness through practical application, guided discussion, and real-world leadership scenarios.
Practical Frameworks & Tools
Participants gain leadership tools they can apply immediately within their teams and organizations.
Topics include:
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Understanding your management style and that of others
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Situational Leadership
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Communication tools and strategies
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Delegation frameworks
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Systems and their power
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Feedback, accountability, and culture
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Managing conflict costructively
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Navigating Change
Every module focuses on how to use these tools in your day to day situations, not just on learning leadership theory.
Coaching, Application, & Support
Leadership development is not passive learning.
Each module combines discussion of proven tools and frameworks, practical application, peer learning, and coaching around the most relevant leadership challenges participants are actively facing.
Participants leave with practical next steps they can implement in real time.
FOR INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANTS
Ready to Lead with Greater Confidence and Impact?
Next Step → Leading™ is built for professionals preparing for and stepping into formal leadership roles for the first time, including:
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Emerging leaders preparing to lead others
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Supervisors
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Program leads
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Department managers
Course Launch: August 10, 2026
FOR ORGANIZATIONS AND HR LEADERS
Invest in the Leaders Driving Your Organization Forward
Every organization promotes talented professionals into leadership. Without structured development, that transition carries real risk — for the leader and for the people they lead.
Next Step → Leading™ provides a structured, course-based development pathway for your emerging supervisors, managers, and program leads. Participants gain frameworks, tools, and coaching they can apply immediately, so the investment translates directly into stronger teams and better outcomes.
This program supports:
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CHROs and HR directors building leadership pipelines
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Department heads preparing direct reports for expanded roles
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Organizations onboarding new managers or planning succession
Connect directly with Dr. Julie Staggs to discuss organizational enrollment.
What Participants Are Saying
"If you’re looking to become a more intentional, confident, and effective leader, I would absolutely recommend Next Step → Leading™. The experience challenges you to think differently about leadership while giving you practical tools and a strong network of support along the way."
Bana Asgedom
Systems Analyst
"This experience has helped me to consider different approaches to a situation before responding. It has also helped me to understand the difference between reacting and responding when a conflict arises. I feel better equipped to handle day-to-day leadership responsibilities as I reflect on my own DiSC style and the DiSC styles of my colleagues."
Amy Vaught
Assistant Director of Student and Academic Affairs
"The aspect of the leadership program I found most valuable was learning the different styles (DISC) and how to interact and be a leader by managing with other colleagues styles. I learned how to handle conflict, navigate uncomfortable conversations and how to lean on my strengths as well as identify areas where I can improve."
Paul Agboli
IT Application Administrator