IMD Annual Report 2019

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IMD also asks participants to share their state of mind at the end of the program. This word cloud captures the very positive nature of their responses.

IMD started systematically collecting “four months later” feedback from September 2019 onward. Unsurprisingly, the data collected so far confirms that this kind of feedback is generally less positive than immediate feedback. But the gap between immediate and “four-month-later” feedback is neither systematic nor constant, which suggests that there are indeed conditions under which participants do manage to stay more focused on their intentions and be more effective in their implementation.

IMD does not yet have enough paired data across different editions of the same program and across programs to make strong inferences. This kind of insight will become more available from 2020.