Course Description
In this course on Communicating as a Productive Leader, you’ll explore key communication strategies that can make you a more effective leader. We’ll cover techniques for active reading and clear, purposeful writing, ensuring your team understands and embraces your ideas. You'll also learn how to deliver engaging presentations that effectively communicate your vision and help engage your team. You’ll also develop impromptu speaking skills to handle on-the-spot discussions with confidence and authority.
The course also focuses on how to lead productive meetings that build collaboration and drive decision-making. Time is one of the most valuable resources available to an organization. Productive meetings keep your team aligned with organizational goals, positively impacting the business. Through these practical approaches to communication, you’ll learn how to cultivate stronger relationships, instill trust in your team, and communicate more effectively in both formal and informal settings. By mastering these communication skills, you’ll be ready to lead your organization with clarity, confidence, and efficiency.
What You'll Learn
- Master active reading and clear, purposeful writing techniques
- Deliver constructive, engaging presentations that communicate your vision
- Improve impromptu speaking skills to handle on-the-spot discussions with confidence
- Lead productive, time-efficient meetings that build collaboration and drive decision-making
- Apply communication strategies that cultivate stronger relationships and instill trust in your team
Key Takeaways
- Effective leadership communication spans active reading, purposeful writing, presentations, impromptu speaking, and meetings.
- Engaging presentations help communicate your vision and engage your team.
- Impromptu speaking skills allow you to handle on-the-spot discussions with confidence and authority.
- Productive meetings keep the team aligned with organizational goals and positively impact the business.
- Mastering these communication skills helps you lead with clarity, confidence, and efficiency in both formal and informal settings.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
It is for leaders who want to communicate more effectively, build stronger relationships, instill trust in their team, and lead with clarity, confidence, and efficiency.
What communication skills does this course cover?
It covers active reading, clear and purposeful writing, delivering constructive presentations, impromptu speaking, and leading productive meetings. The skills addressed include communications, public speaking, and reading comprehension.
What topics are included in the lessons?
The lessons cover an introduction, reading effectively, writing effectively, delivering constructive presentations, speaking on the spot, leading productive meetings, and a knowledge test.
Why does the course emphasize productive meetings?
Because time is one of the most valuable resources available to an organization, and productive meetings keep your team aligned with organizational goals, positively impacting the business.
Professional Certifications and Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Professional Development Units (PDUs): 0.5
KnowledgeCity has been reviewed and approved by the PMI® Authorized Training Partner Program. Users can maintain your PMI credentials by earning PDUs from KnowledgeCity qualified courses in Project Management, Business Management, Leadership and many others.
Professional Development Credits (PDCs): 0.5
KnowledgeCity is approved by SHRM as a Recertification General Provider to offer SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP professional development credits (PDCs). By taking the courses approved by SHRM, KnowledgeCity can award SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for HR knowledge and competency programs related to the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge™ (the SHRM BASK™).
