Advanced communication for leaders

Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session

15.279 Management Communication for Undergraduates, 15.280 Communication for Leaders, or permission of instructor.

Advanced Communication for Leaders helps you:

We will look at a range of successful practices and guidelines that have been derived from both research and experience, give you the opportunity to develop and practice your skills, and provide you with feedback to help you strengthen them.

The readings for this course are listed in the Readings section. You may also want to refer to the following book used in 15.280:

Munter, Mary, and Lynn Hamilton. Guide to Managerial Communication. 10th ed. Pearson, 2013. ISBN: 9780132971331

Motivational Speech and Self-assessment

The first assignment of the semester requires you to create, rehearse, and execute a 5-minute motivational or visioning speech to a business audience and assess your presentation in writing.

Students prepare and deliver a 10-minute interactive persuasive presentation.

The class will be divided up into 5 teams; each team will be responsible for teaching one 80-minute class session on a specified leadership communication topic.

You will interview a business executive of your choice about leadership communication and write—up to three pages in length—your findings in a report.

See the Assignments section for more details about these deliverables.

15.281 Advanced Communication for Leaders is designed to be a highly interactive class. The ability to contribute to an open discussion of ideas and to defend your position on a subject is an important leadership skill that you can work in this class. You can excel in class participation if you are on time, stay to the end, and contribute in these ways:

Attendance is critical to learning in 15.281 and as such unexcused absences result in a "zero" participation grade for the missed sessions. Late assignments will be penalized.

Some of your oral presentations will take place outside class time in an extra session with other students and your professor or TA—slots are available on different days and times to accommodate schedules.

If you miss a scheduled oral presentation without advance consultation, you will receive a score of zero for that assignment.

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