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    Your Leadership Essentials online learning journey

    Designed to jumpstart your journey to top leadership.

    Your Leadership Essentials online learning journey

    Designed to jumpstart your journey to top leadership.

    Program overview
    Unit 1: Leadership, self-awareness, and personality
    • Discover your personality traits.
    • Understand how they influence your behavior and impact your leadership effectiveness.
    • Learn how to build on your strengths and compensate for your weaknesses.
    • Connect with your personal coach to identify actions to build your leadership effectiveness.
    Unit 2: Understanding, harnessing, and sustaining power
    • Understand and identify the various bases of power.
    • Understand your own dominant power bases and their relevance in your organization.
    • Explore how to use power effectively to gain status and respect, and most importantly, to lead others.
    Unit 3: Influencing without formal power
    • Know the core principles of psychological influence and the importance of inquiry, listening, and storytelling.
    • Understand when and how to use them most effectively.
    • Practice how to use the principles of psychological influence in your own challenges at work.
    Unit 4: Having difficult conversations and giving feedback
    • Learn a framework for having difficult conversations.
    • Practice the skill of bringing up uncomfortable issues and giving critical feedback to foster the growth and development of those you lead.
    Unit 5: Making a good team great
    • Discover the five essential ingredients of star teams, not teams of stars.
    • Assess your own team on those components and identify what is missing.
    • Discuss your personal leadership case for which you are facing a challenge.

    One-on-one coaching

    Throughout your online learning, an experienced IMD executive coach provides personalized support tailored to your goals and context. Your coach challenges your thinking, helps you navigate implementation barriers, and ensures you extract maximum value from the program. Interactions take place via video, in writing, and over the phone—flexible to fit your schedule.

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    Your expert coach helps you:

    Navigate your specific challenges

    Address the real obstacles you’re facing in your organization.

    Translate concepts into action

    Move from theory to practical application in your work.

    Maximize your impact

    Stay focused on outcomes that matter to your role and goals.

    Maintain momentum

    Keep progressing even when priorities compete for your attention.

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    Power your learning with IMD’s AI Advisor

    Personalized AI support integrated into your learning experience — guiding you as you set objectives, complete assignments, journal insights, and apply concepts to your work.

    Smart support, available 24/7

    Real-time feedback, reflection prompts, and guidance— tailored to your role and work situation.
    100% aligned with your program

    Prompts tied directly to your curriculum and connected through all modules, helping you create an integrated outcome by the end.
    Two adaptive support modes

    Step-by-step for structured support, Adaptive for high-level guidance.
    Real outcomes, real impact

    Guidance to develop actionable plans grounded in your reality and ready to implement immediately.