Interested in reaching your full potential and elevating your leadership skills? EDHEC’s Online MBA is designed to guide you on a transformative journey of personal and professional development. This new curriculum goes beyond the traditional classroom experience, offering coaching and immersive learning experiences that empower participants to become tomorrow’s impactful leaders and changemakers.
As part of the 24-month learning experience, participants benefit from Boost360, a personalised leadership development program tailored to support personal, professional, and career growth. This core component of the Online MBA curriculum blends theoretical insights with individual coaching under the supervision of a full-time EDHEC faculty member, unlocking each participant’s leadership potential.
When pursuing an MBA, participants often envision a career transition, greater professional development, and developing their leadership expertise. To meet these aspirations, Boost360 gives each participant the unique opportunity to reach their career objectives. It encourages them to question, challenge, and explore every aspect of their career and leadership development.
Boost360 Overview and Importance
Committed to supporting our MBAs in their careers and leadership development, Boost360 is a cornerstone of the program offering several components. Inge De Clippeleer, Associate Professor, Head of Faculty, Management & Humanities, and Coordinator of the Boost360 program, highlights its importance in helping participants gain greater self-awareness, one of the first foundational competences leaders need in order to manage themselves – and others. She explains the program’s, structure, which starts with self-awareness to build self-management skills.
The MBA offers a transformative journey, equipping participants with fundamental skills at this level of education, fostering high-performance teams, leading people in complex environment and organisation.
Additionally, it has a coaching component, where participants look at 25 different competences with the aim of developing each one through regular interventions during the learning journey. According to research, these competences are key to becoming a successful professional or leader. These four competences focus on key leadership aspects including:
- Self-management: balance, agility, resilience
- Functional competences: problem-solving, decision-making, expertise
- Relational skills: active listening, communication, negotiation, connecting, showing empathy
- Strategic skills: visioning and implementing how an organisation should be led, embracing diversity, steering a company ethically, sourcing the right resources
Coaching and Competence Development
The journey begins with a session focused on self-management, laying the foundation for progress. Participants then undergo a 360-degree evaluation of 25 key competences, gathering feedback from their manager, peers, and team members. This feedback serves as a basis for a personalised coaching session, where participants create an action plan to guide their development and set goals for future advancement.
The aim is to help participants understand how their competences are currently perceived and provide the tools and support needed to strengthen these skills. This process equips them to pursue lateral career moves and achieve their goals through a combination of coaching and targeted courses.
Boost360 integrates interactive teaching sessions, reflective exercises, group coaching, and one-on-one guidance to enhance abilities in self-management, strategic thinking, functional expertise, and relational skills.
How Is Boost360 Integrated in the Online MBA Program?
Boost360 is an integral part of the Online MBA journey. Participants have time in-between sessions to reflect on and apply their learning in their respective work environments. To support continuous growth, the program includes reflection exercises where participants review and identify what worked, what didn’t, and how they can improve.
Reaching Greater Heights and Potential
Boost360 is designed to help participants achieve a profound personal and professional transformation, empowering them to step into leadership roles with confidence and embrace the next stage of their journey as impactful leaders.
