What happens when you become the leader - but you're still figuring out what that really means?
Learn how to step into leadership with:
Clarity.
Confidence.
Intention.
Own Your Role as a Leader helps leaders navigate the shift from being a peer to leading others, build clarity around what their role requires, and become more intentional about how they show up.
What You'll Explore
- What changes when you move from peer to leader - including responsibilities, relationships, boundaries, and trust.
- What leadership requires of you from four perspectives: yourself, your direct reports, your manager, and your organization.
- The difference between leading yourself and leading others - and why both matter.
- How clarity, confidence, communication, trust, and influence shape your leadership presence.
- How to focus your time and energy on what you can control and influence, rather than what is outside your control.
What You'll Gain
- You will leave with greater clarity about your leadership role, greater awareness of how you show up, and practical strategies for leading with greater confidence and intention.
- You'll have explored the expectations placed on you from different directions, identified opportunities to strengthen your leadership presence, and used the Circle of Control, Influence and Concern to consider where to focus your energy.
- The goal is not to become a different kind of leader. It's to own your role, lead with intention, and make an impact - by becoming more deliberate about how you show up and the choices you make every day.
Step Into Leadership → Clarify Your Role → Lead Self & Others → Strengthen Your Presence → Focus Your Impact.
The learning journey moves from understanding what changes when you become a leader, to clarifying what is expected of you, exploring how you need to lead yourself and others, strengthening how others experience you, and ultimately focusing your energy where you can make the greatest difference.
The MCE Learning Experience
This is a highly interactive, reflection-based course. Throughout the day, you will move between short learning segments, individual reflection, partner conversations, group activities, workplace scenarios, and practical application.
You'll have opportunities to examine your own leadership experiences, including situations involving boundaries, trust, expectations, difficult conversations, conflict, resistance, feedback, and decision-making.
Your workbook is an important part of the experience. It brings together the key concepts, models, tools, and reflection activities from the course, giving you a place to capture your own insights and examples. Use it throughout training and reflect on it afterwards to apply the tools in your day-to-day leadership.
Ready to Own Your Role as a Leader?
Own Your Role as a Leader is a CORE course in the DEVELOP pathway. Take it on its own to build a specific skill, or as part of a pathway to turn that skill into lasting change.
Cohorts are available for this course. Or ask us how it fits into a pathway.
Ready to take it to your team? See Building and Leading Exceptional Teams in the BUILD pathway.