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Your Inspirational Leadership learning journey

Designed to ensure you accelerate your leadership impact.

Your Inspirational Leadership learning journey

Designed to ensure you accelerate your leadership impact.

Program overview
Unit 1: Why am I here?
  • Meet other participants and enhance your understanding of who you are, how you are perceived, and how you operate as a leader.
  • Review your 360 feedback report and reflect on your successes and challenges as a leader.
  • Learn the behaviors of high-performing leaders.
Unit 2: Leading myself
  • Consider how you as a leader and your relationship with team members relate to engagement.
  • Discuss your 360 feedback with your coach. Explore how leaders manage their internal state and how this impacts leadership and “playing to win”.
  • Learn about leading from your mind’s eye and training your brain.
Unit 3: Leading others
  • Discover practical ideas and tools that can help with leadership.
  • Examine the importance of building bonds to successful leadership and look at how to engage and influence others.
  • Learn how to have difficult conversations and prepare for a challenging interaction you are facing at work.
Unit 4: Leading teams
  • Reflect on the way leadership styles affect teams and on the leadership impact you want to have.
  • Learn about blocks to dialogue that can reduce effective teamwork.
  • Analyze a team meeting and your own team’s dynamics as they relate to a culture of high performance.
Unit 5: Managing conflicts
  • Learn to manage conflict and challenge the idea that conflict is fundamentally negative.
  • Observe and discuss conflict situations and identify constructive strategies for handling them.
  • Reflect on sources of conflict in your current professional context.
Unit 6: Leader as coach
  • Consider the idea that leaders must be able to coach others to develop their potential.
  • Demonstrate coaching techniques, including the GROW model, and get feedback from your buddy.
  • Demonstrate your understanding of coaching tools and techniques through coaching one member of your team.
Unit 7: Developing resilience
  • Learn how to build resilience, overcome setbacks, and weather storms.
  • Think about sources of stress and discover strategies for coping with them.
  • Identify personal stressors and learn to manage your own stress and work-life integration with your group.
Unit 8: The road ahead
  • Review lessons from the whole program, decide how to keep learning and build your own action plan for the road ahead.
  • Check that you have submitted all assignments, including your weekly learning journals, to show how you’ve applied your learning to your professional context.

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.

An online program participant having a coaching session via video

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.