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    Your online learning journey

    Designed to ensure you lead your strategic initiatives to successful implementation.

    Your online learning journey

    Designed to ensure you lead your strategic initiatives to successful implementation.

    Program overview
    Unit 1: Seven insights of execution and focus first
    • Start with an introduction to the program and the community.
    • Delve into the seven insights of smarter execution and focus first.
    • Formulate your execution challenge.
    • Understand the importance of alignment with overall strategy and strategic priorities.
    Unit 2: Pick the best
    • Define team members’ roles and responsibilities.
    • Get sponsorship for your initiative.
    • Formulate team members’ performance objectives.
    • Understand team dynamics.
    Unit 3: Set the course
    • Scope your initiative.
    • Create a compelling vision.
    • Communicate a sense of urgency.
    • Build the roadmap.
    Unit 4: Think it through and follow through
    • Create a high-level plan for your initiative.
    • Assess the impacts of your initiative.
    • Launch a pilot for your initiative.
    • Monitor the progress of your initiative.
    Unit 5: All aboard
    • Conduct a stakeholder assessment.
    • Learn to overcome resistance to change.
    • Communicate with different audiences.
    • Set up high-impact events.
    • Participate in an interactive simulation.
    Unit 6: Play to win
    • Reflect on your personal leadership style and mindset.
    • Develop your mental energy and engage with your team.
    • Understand how team motivators help you manage team dynamics.
    Unit 7: Manage strategic initiatives portfolio
    • Assess initiative overload.
    • Manage a portfolio of initiatives.
    • Define the governance and processes needed for successful strategy execution.
    Unit 8: Design the operating model
    • Understand the link between strategy and execution through the six dimensions of an operating model.
    • Learn how to facilitate the execution by aligning structure, processes, people, incentives, and behaviors.
    • Get a personalized refresher of the seven insights.

    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.

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    IMD Executive Certificate
    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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