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How to become a high performance leader
Are you ready to focus on you, your leadership potential, your vision, and the bigger impact you can make on your team, organization, and customers?
At High Performance Leadership (HPL), you experience the training that successful business leaders and world-class athletes use to consistently achieve great results.
Created by former hostage negotiator, George Kohlrieser, you discover the principles of hostage negotiation so that you never become a psychological hostage to anyone again.
Discover your leadership patterns and foundations, diagnose your leadership tasks
Develop your own leadership style, learn effective dialogue, revitalize your vision and build on your strengths
Boost your capacity to change and move to a higher level of your leadership performance
Develop a personal leadership path that ensures you remain inspired and resilient for the future
You and your class
You are an experienced executive who wants to achieve the next level of effectiveness in leading individuals, teams and large groups to their highest level of sustained performance. This training program is also designed for teams looking to align around a common approach and language.
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The class you join is individually brought together through a careful selection process to ensure that you experience the most impactful executive education learning with a truly diverse group of global peers. Your class will become a trusted resource, encourage your learning journey and surprise you in many unanticipated beneficial ways both during and beyond your classroom experience.
Positive impact on your career
Joining an IMD business school program can make a big impact on you and your team, and greatly improve your career success. Find out how this training program is changing lives for the better.
After doing HPL I dared more. It just changes the mindset you have and frees you up to discover new things.
Sabine Fercher
Chief Compliance Officer, Allianz AG
Switzerland
This program won’t just teach you what leaders do, it shows you how to develop your inner world, your inner strength, your inner confidence, your inner personal power to be a truly authoritative, high-performing leader.
George Kohlrieser
Program Director
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