Leadership Course

Navigating Your Leadership Journey

Chart your values-driven leadership path.

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Course Overview

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What Is Values-Driven Leadership?

Values-driven leadership is an approach to leading others based on clearly defined personal and organizational values. Leaders use these values to guide decisions, shape behavior, and build trust with their teams. This approach helps ensure consistency, accountability, and alignment between actions and long-term goals.

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U.S. Military Active duty personnel, reservists, retired or disabled veterans. 10%
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Instruction Time Completion Time CEUs
Navigating Your Leadership Journey 10-15 hours 60 days to complete 1

Leadership is not about titles. It is a journey shaped by values, decisions, and the impact you leave on others. Navigating Your Leadership Journey equips learners with a practical blueprint to lead with clarity, integrity, and purpose in today’s complex environments.

Led by retired U.S. Naval Officer Steve Lapid, this course draws on more than 25 years of experience leading high-performing teams in dynamic, high-pressure environments. Steve’s background includes service on surface warships, joint commands, and Naval Special Warfare units. He brings a disciplined, real-world perspective to leadership development shaped by both operational and strategic roles.

At the heart of this course is self-awareness. You will identify and anchor in your core values. You will also chart your natural leadership style through practical tools and application. Rather than promoting a one-size-fits-all model, the course helps you understand who you are as a leader, how you can navigate leadership in teams, and how to adapt to different organizational cultures without compromising integrity. You will leave with a personalized leadership blueprint to guide your decisions and shape the legacy you want to build.

Learning Objectives

  • Define and articulate core leadership values.
  • Develop a personal leadership blueprint grounded in integrity and alignment.
  • Identify natural strengths and anticipate potential blind spots.
  • Understand key leadership tensions and how to navigate them effectively.
  • Align teams around shared purpose and common goals.
  • Build team trust through transparency, accountability, and consistent standards.
  • Make strategic decisions in complex or high-pressure environments.
  • Map out the legacy they want to leave as leaders.

Course Overview

  • Foundations of Leadership: Values & Alignment
  • Mapping Your Leadership Blueprint
  • Trust, Discipline, & Accountability
  • Leading in Complex & High-Pressure Environments
  • Legacy & Long-Term Impact
  • Why people react the way they do under stress
  • The emotional brain versus the logical brain
  • Conflict as a psychological construct
  • What mindfulness is and why it matters in conflict
  • The four components of emotional intelligence
  • Emotional accountability and self-regulation
  • Communication filters: culture, identity, experience, and perception
  • Interpersonal communication across formats (in-person, voice, digital)
  • How miscommunication creates conflict
  • The Communication Compass assessment
  • Assertive, logical, supportive, inspiring, and collaborative communication styles
  • Adapting communication without losing authenticity
  • Reframing conflict management as conflict navigation
  • Identifying personal triggers and hot-zone reactions
  • Where conflict shows up in the body
  • Preparing for high-impact conversations
  • Practicing healthy feedback, assertive dialogue, and productive disagreement.
  • Using empathy to support productive, two-way conversations
  • The P.O.I.S.E.D. Method (Purpose, Objectivity, Integrity, Sincerity, Empathy, and Dialogue)
  • Applying course concepts to real-world workplace scenarios and challenges
  • Building a personalized roadmap for navigating future conflict
  • Leading humans rather than managing behavior

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for professionals who want to lead with greater clarity and purpose, including:

  • Military-affiliated professionals and defense leaders
  • Emerging leaders preparing for increased responsibility
  • Mid-level managers seeking stronger alignment and team performance
  • Senior leaders enhancing their leadership philosophy and legacy
  • High-performing individual contributors transitioning into leadership roles
  • Anyone seeking a structured, values-based approach to leadership development


Whether you are early in your leadership journey or refining decades of experience, this course provides a practical framework to help you lead with confidence, alignment, and integrity.

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Instructional Team

Steven-Paul Lapid, USN (Ret.)

  • Retired U.S. Naval Officer
  • Leadership Author, Helm & Horizon: Daily Leadership Principles for the Motivated Sailor
  • Editor-in-Chief of DODReads
  • University of Michigan Alum

Additional Information

How Values-Driven Leadership Is Used in Industry?

Values-Driven Leadership skills are applied by engineers and technical professionals to improve real-world systems and organizational performance. Companies use these methods to solve technical problems, optimize processes, guide innovation, and support better engineering decisions across teams.

Skills

Leadership self-assessment; career growth planning; influence skills; decision making; leadership identity.

Audience

Emerging and developing leaders reflecting on growth, direction, and leadership practice.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What does Navigating Your Leadership Journey cover? Navigating Your Leadership Journey helps professionals reflect on how they lead, where they want to grow, and how to move into bigger responsibilities. The course emphasizes self-awareness, leadership habits, and intentional career development.

Who should take Navigating Your Leadership Journey? Emerging and developing leaders reflecting on growth, direction, and leadership practice.

How is Navigating Your Leadership Journey used in practice? Participants use the course to reflect on their growth path and make more intentional leadership choices over time.

Questions Professionals Also Ask

How do emerging leaders grow? What leadership habits matter most? How do you lead with intention?

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