IMD Business School

Leading High-Performance Teams

IMD Business School

Leadership

About Programme

What does your team look like today? Do your team members excel at collaborating in a constructive, positive way? Can they maximize their creative and innovation potential? What can you do to improve engagement, initiative, and the seizing of learning opportunities?

IMD’s Leading High-Performance Teams is a highly interactive and immersive on-campus experience. It enables you as a leader to build and sustain a high-performing team by maximizing your team’s talent and innovation potential through trust-building, inclusive leadership, and growth mindset.

Discover how, by focusing on inclusive leadership, interaction, creativity, and imagination, you can empower your team and enhance dynamics, ensuring that each person contributes his or her unique talents and surpasses expectations.

Develop your self-awareness

Develop awareness – in a trusting, supportive environment – of how you formally and informally lead teams.

Embrace inclusive leadership

Explore inclusive leadership, growth mindset, team dynamics, and communication.

Build your team toolbox

Gain tools and behaviors that positively impact team dynamics for higher performance and business growth.

Drive success in a hybrid team culture

Strengthen your ability to bond with your team and drive organizational success in physical, virtual, and hybrid contexts.

This program is part of our broader portfolio of leadership programs for executives , designed to strengthen how you lead people, teams, and yourself, and build the kind of leadership that makes organizations perform.

Programme Content

Self-paced preparation

Preparatory readings

Before the program begins, you will briefly explore topics such as what defines a real team, what is unique in high-performance teams, and psychological safety. This tool-driven learning is designed to help you reflect on your team’s needs so you can explore how to accommodate them once on campus.

On campus

Face-to-face – 3.5 days of experiential learning

IMD faculty and coaches will lead you through the four stages of transforming a group of individuals into a dream team, namely:

Establish agreement: align on how to work together.
Build trust: sharing and opening up to build psychological safety.
Share feedback: building on individual and team awareness.
Drive performance: turn your reflection and learning into action.
Real-world application

One-hour coaching call Videos & readings

After the program, you will receive tools focusing on the four steps to creating high-performance teams to help you apply your learning. They are designed for you to share with your team to stimulate reflection and lively discussions on the way forward together.

Testimonials

"An immersive and highly valuable experience combining experiential learning and reflection. It reinforced how essential trust, shared accountability, and collective growth are to team performance, while providing concrete tools to put these principles into practice."

Emad Oveisi

Senior Staff Scientist, EPFL, Switzerland

"The program opened my eyes to new perspectives and approaches to teamwork. The discussions were not just theoretical, they were deeply practical, offering tools and insights. The experience was nothing short of transformative, and hugely impactful."

Alexandra Le Van

General Manager – Closure Advisory, Rio Tinto, UK

"My experience in the program was amazing. It is a tool, a way to be better as a team, to be better ourselves and, therefore, perform better. A better team leads to more success, better results and better production."

Filippo Negri

Managing Director, Head of Wealth Management, Union Bancaire Privée, Luxembourg

"It’s a great program. From the first moment, you start practicing, you start learning, you share experiences. You put the theory into practice."

Janine Neuhaus

Finance Director WWDP, Japan Tobacco International, Switzerland

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