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    Your blended learning journey

    Your blended learning journey

    High-impact learning

    Your journey provides you with a powerful variety of learning experiences to upskill as a general manager for a rapidly changing world. You will develop your strategic thinking and decision making and accelerate your leadership with business and leadership coaching. You will also benefit from an integrative consulting project with an external organization to maximize exposure to different real-world contexts and perspectives.

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    Virtual module 1 – Build your foundations

    5 weeks online

    • Strategic thinking: 20 hours of workload (watch videos, submit assignments, peer review discussions, attend 4 x 120’ liVe sessions)
    • Accounting: 12 hours of workload (preparatory work, attend 4 x 120’ liVe sessions)
    • Negotiation: 12 hours of workload (preparatory work, attend 4 x 120’ liVe sessions)
    Virtual module 2 – Shift into higher gear

    5 weeks online

    • Managerial economics/navigating a dynamic world: 6 x 120’ liVe sessions
    • Strategy and digital transformation: 2 x 120’ liVe sessions
    • Marketing/customer centricity: 4 x 120’ liVe sessions
    On-campus module 3 – Achieve real impact

    9 days on campus

    • Leadership
      – Leading self and others
      – Team contracting
      – Experiential exercise (VR)
      – Feedback and action planning
      – Moving forward
    • ESG foundations
    • Executive presence – with professional actors
    • LiVe consulting integrative project
    Have a look at the detailed schedule for the upcoming sessions

    Discover the live case consulting projects

    As part of the Live Consulting Project, Global Management Foundations participants create business case studies to solve problems that are happening in the real world. IMD has partnered with the following companies for consulting projects: Agathon, Gavi, Medair, ICRC, and iamtheCODE.

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    ICRC Live project 2022.
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    Medair Live project 2021.

    Comparing Global Management Foundations with Foundations for Business Leadership

    As you transition from functional expertise to general management responsibility, IMD offers you different development options. Global Management Foundations and Foundations for Business Leadership programs represent two approaches to talent progression, each supporting your move toward broader leadership impact You can compare both programs here.

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

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    Discover our Executive MBA

    Thinking of a degree in the long-term? Discover IMD’s Executive MBA program.

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