Leadership and communication can be used interchangeably. Poor leadershipcommunication can be a source of low morale, conflict, substandard performance, low job satisfaction, missed goal, and inferior results. High-impact leadershipcommunication is vital to engaging, inspiring, and motivating the workforce and developing high-performance teams and organizations. This course focuses on developing interpersonal skills, clarifying communication purpose, analyzing the audience, devising targeted influencing strategies to develop presentation skills, persuasive messaging, and crisis communication. This class helps students enhance their leadership communication skills through readings, reflective writing, assessments, research projects, case analysis, group work, and final presentations.
This course meets weekly on Thursday evenings online.