Your Leadership Essentials online learning journey

Designed to jumpstart your journey to top leadership.

Discover your personality traits and values.
Understand how they impact your leadership role and effectiveness as a leader.
Learn how to build on your strengths and compensate for your weaknesses.

Understand and identify the various bases of power.
Understand your own dominant power bases and how best to use them.
Practice how to translate power into status and leadership.

Know the core principles of psychological influence.
Understand and practice how to use these principles in your own influence challenges at work.

Understand the main components of delivering negative feedback (including trust-building).
Know when to use and distinguish formal versus ongoing performance feedback.
Learn how to deliver a formal performance review.

Discover what makes a high-performing team and how you can develop your own team into becoming one.
Understand how you can support your team’s creativity.
Discover how errors and extrinsic motivators (besides money!) can foster creativity.

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.

Explore FAQs for online programs

Find quick answers to your online program queries in our comprehensive FAQ section.

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.

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.