IMD Annual Report 2021

97 Learning

The IMD Voyager journey.

The Voyager team is now focused on strengthening the product offering, greater automation so it can reach scale faster, greater integration with existing executive education offerings, as well as growing the customer base. The 5s2 Executive Performance Model IMD Voyager is powered by IMD’s proprietary 5s2 Model, which assesses leaders on five leadership scales. Each of these scales has two opposing behaviours. Effective leaders need to skillfully lead strategy, lead execution, lead stakeholders, lead people and lead themselves. The underlying leadership behaviors that drive effectiveness across these five scales, however, need to be radically different and non-linear to align to ambidextrous behaviors. Leading strategy as a transformer and an operator Leading execution as an experimenter and an implementer Leading stakeholders as a networker and an administrator Leading people as a galvanizer and a conductor Leading self as an explorer and a regenerator

“5s2 asks leaders to embrace a paradoxical mindset, confront discomforts and pivot between contradictory behaviors to overcome challenges effectively. Thus, leaders become ambidextrous, resilient and agile, fully capable of leading organizations through tomorrow’s world successfully.”

RIC ROI PROFESSOR OF LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION