MIT Sloan School of Management: Interpersonal Communication: Strategies for Executives

Gain the ability to effectively communicate with diverse teams, and across a dispersed workforce, to manage and motivate in the modern business environment.

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MIT Sloan School of Management: Interpersonal Communication: Strategies for Executives

Strong communication skills and interpersonal relationships are essential in an increasingly complex, dynamic, and technical world.

Communicating persuasively is crucial to inspiring and motivating others, and a requirement when leading a diverse — and often dispersed — workforce. This skill is also valuable when working with external stakeholders such as clients or business partners from abroad.

The MIT Sloan Interpersonal Communication: Strategies for Executives online short course combines research and practice-based methods to help you craft communication deliverables using the RELATE Framework — a scalable professional communication strategy created by the MIT Sloan School of Management. Throughout the course, you’ll also learn how to engage with various audiences and apply a strategic communication lens to understand machines in the corporate context.

This course is designed to support you in adopting effective personal and online communication techniques that meet the needs of an increasingly complex, digitalized world. Managers, entrepreneurs, and business leaders who need to communicate with a wide range of stakeholders will find value in developing their skill set and updating their communication approaches to meet modern business needs.

Similarly, if you’re a consultant, you can enhance service delivery by improving your ability to communicate with diverse audiences or via virtual or social media tools, as required by most multinational companies. If you’re looking to improve your interpersonal skills to match your practical expertise, for example, as a technical or HR professional who wants to better communicate with a team, you’ll find value in the strategic approaches covered in this course.

Course curriculum

Develop a strong communication strategy for use in business contexts as you work through the weekly modules of this online course.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Sharpening your communication capabilities through the RELATE Framework

Module 2: Navigating interpersonal dynamics

Module 3: Managing difficult conversations

Module 4: Communicating across cultures

Module 5: Maximizing your persuasive potential

Module 6: Addressing a new audience: Machines

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The percentage of survey respondents who agree that their companies have leaders with the skills needed to thrive in the digital economy.

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The ability to communicate across remote or distributed teams is one of the top three skills learning and development professionals consider essential for success.

LinkedIn (2021).

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