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Executive Business Communication: Enhancing Your Competencies

Conveying confidence and credibility is necessary to clear communication in business today. Learning the skills to deliver a polished and persuasive presentation can ensure that the ideas you have are successfully conveyed. 

The overall course is designed to take the basics of communication and move it up a notch into an Executive focus and strategy for communication in a variety of settings. The course is designed to focus on 5 major competencies of communication and stretch the learner into working with each of these significant competencies to enhance them in a six-session course.  The last session is meant as a capstone to take the lessons learned and create an “actionable-future-plan” for development and success.

This course has a strong developmental focus and as such requires of you a significant amount of introspection and willingness to learn.  Each person comes to Fisher College of Business with solid skills in many/most of these areas; our goal is to help you improve further.  The most successful business leaders recognize that they can always improve in these areas. 

Program Information

Who Should Attend:

This course is intended for senior management whose success depends on their ability guide both internal and external stakeholders.  Individuals who wish to improve their presentation skills through learning important techniques and by practicing and receiving immediate feedback.  Past participants come from a broad range of industries; companies are encouraged to send teams who will not only learn a common vocabulary, but will have the opportunity to work on current organization communication challenges.

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Date:

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Tuesday, January 7, 2013
Tuesday, January 28, 2013

Location:

Fisher College of Business, Pfahl Hall

Cost:

$3,350

Faculty:

Marc Ankerman

Continuing Education Credits:

2.4 CEU (Continuing Education Unit)
24 CPE (Ohio CPA)

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Program Participants Will Learn

  • To understand the process of content development and organization
  • Work with a variety of listening techniques for shared purpose and meaning in presenting and work life situations.
  • Techniques of facilitation versus presentation and begin to plan strategies for increasing productivity and effectiveness in business meeting communication.
  • Examine a variety of techniques related to “emotional intelligence” and how it affects the executive control and influence in executive communication.
  • To effectively work on strategies and techniques in relation to difficult content, difficult audiences and difficult presentations.
  • To apply the above mentioned skills in a team setting where the interaction at an executive level is often challenged and difficult to maintain.

Contact

Stefanie Freeman
Program Manager

Phone: 614.247.8088
Fax: 614.292.6644
fisherexeced@fisher.osu.edu
Fisher College of Business
Executive Education
110 Pfahl Hall
280 W. Woodruff Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210-1144
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