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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 impact your leadership role and effectiveness as a leader.
    • Learn how to build on your strengths and compensate for your weaknesses.
    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.
    • Practice how to translate power into status and leadership.
    Unit 3: Influencing without formal power
    • Know the core principles of psychological influence and the importance of inquiry, listening, and storytelling.
    • Understand and practice how to use these principles in your own influence 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.
    Unit 5: Making a great team work 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.

    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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    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.

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