MIT Sloan School of Management

Interpersonal Communication: Strategies for Executives

Develop the proficiency to efficiently communicate with multifarious teams and geographically dispersed employees, in order to effectively manage and inspire in today's contemporary corporate setting.

Start date

05 March 2025

Price

$2,950 USD

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Course duration

6 weeks

Excluding orientation

Language

English

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Effort

6–8 hours per week

Self-paced learning online

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Course overview

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

Cognizant (Jan, 2020).

Top 3

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).

Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)

In today's fast-paced and highly technical world, effective communication skills and building strong interpersonal relationships have become increasingly crucial.

Communicating effectively is essential for inspiring and motivating others, especially when leading a diverse and geographically dispersed team. It is also a valuable skill when working with external stakeholders, such as clients or business partners from different cultural backgrounds.

If you want to enhance your communication skills, the MIT Sloan Interpersonal Communication: Strategies for Executives online short course can help. This course combines research and practical methods to help you create effective communication strategies using the RELATE Framework, a professional communication strategy developed by the MIT Sloan School of Management. Throughout the course, you'll also learn how to engage with different audiences and apply a strategic communication lens to understand how machines operate in the corporate environment.

Is this course for you?

This course provides you with effective personal and online communication techniques suitable for the current complex digital world. Business leaders, entrepreneurs, and managers interacting with diverse stakeholders will benefit from enhancing their communication skills and adopting modern approaches.

In the same way, if you're a consultant, improving your ability to communicate with diverse audiences or through virtual or social media platforms will aid in providing better service delivery, as most multinational companies require. If you're a technical or HR professional seeking to improve your interpersonal skills to match your practical expertise and better communicate with a team, this course's strategic approaches will be valuable.

Course overview

Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)

In today's fast-paced and highly technical world, effective communication skills and building strong interpersonal relationships have become increasingly crucial.

What will set you apart

On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with:

Effective communication skills and strategies to help you manage remote teams in any business context or industry.

Skills in active listening and humble inquiry, and an improved ability to give and receive feedback.

A personal leadership narrative, and a range of tactics to effectively manage and participate in difficult conversations.

Strategies to persuade external and internal audiences.

An understanding of the significant impact of technology in the workplace, and the practices needed to communicate that impact in productive conversations with, through, and about machines.

Course curriculum

As you progress through the weekly modules of this online course, create a robust communication strategy to be utilized in business contexts.

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

Faculty Directors

The design of this online program is guided by MIT Sloan faculty, as well as industry experts, who will share their experience and in-depth knowledge with you throughout the program.

Ben Shields

Senior Lecturer in Managerial Communication, MIT Sloan

Kara Blackburn

Senior Lecturer in Managerial Communication, MIT Sloan

About the certificate

Refine your professional communication abilities to enhance outcomes in the corporate world and earn an official digital certificate of completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

This program also counts toward an MIT Sloan Executive Certificate, which you can earn upon completion of four programs where at least three of the four come from your chosen certificate track and at least one is completed in person. Find full details here.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

MIT Sloan Interpersonal Communication: Strategies for Executives online program certificate

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