Your Leadership Essentials online learning journey

Designed to jumpstart your journey to top leadership.

Program overview

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, you’ll be accompanied by an experienced IMD executive coach who will challenge you, encourage you, and provide valuable feedback on your weekly assignments. Together, you’ll dive deeper into the program content and make it meaningful to your own professional context. Your interactions will take place via video, in writing, and over the phone.

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Achieve your goals

Your expert coach helps you:

Define

Define your learning objectives and stay on track.

Review

Review your progress on a weekly basis.

Overcome

Overcome your challenges.

Apply

Apply what you learn to your own context.

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Get a personal recommendation

Schedule a call with a Program Advisor to discuss your professional development and see if this is the program for you.

Join a free information session

Join online and experience a walkthrough of the Online programs, how they work, what you can expect and how it will impact your career.

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Earn an IMD Online Executive Certificate

Reinforce and consolidate your expertise in leadership, strategy, or digital acceleration through an immersive, fully online experience incorporating executive coaching.