Former Edward J. Frey Dean, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Leadership Communication for Emerging Managers
4-Course Series
52 hours
13 hours per course (approx.)
About Leadership Communication for Emerging Managers
In this Specialization, you'll build practical communication skills for leading, motivating, influencing, and presenting with confidence. Learn to create and communicate a shared vision, set clear goals and expectations, and understand what drives team performance across cultures. You'll also explore influence tactics, relationship building, and ways to distinguish influence from manipulation.
Strengthen your speaking by organizing messages clearly, holding audience attention, and using rhetorical techniques that support confident delivery. You'll also learn to tailor messages with tact, empathy, and professionalism for high-stakes conversations, including apologies and difficult workplace discussions.
This Specialization is designed for emerging managers and professionals who want to communicate more effectively with teammates, peers, stakeholders, and leaders. No prior experience is required.
Applied Learning Project
The available course metadata does not identify named hands-on projects. Instead, applied learning focuses on leadership and communication situations covered across the courses. You'll explore how to shape a shared vision, set goals and expectations, and diagnose motivation challenges. You'll examine influence tactics for working with supervisors, peers, and direct reports while distinguishing influence from manipulation. You'll also develop approaches for structuring memorable presentations, holding audience attention, and adapting messages with poise. Tact-focused scenarios address sincere apologies, respectful difficult conversations, and framing communication around the audience's needs.
Skills You'll Gain
- Employee Motivation
- Communication Strategies
- Leadership
- Social Skills
- Leadership Development
- Goal Setting
- Develop Networks
- Advanced Negotiation
- Empathy
- Storytelling
- Public Speaking Preparation
- Employee Engagement Strategy
- Team Motivation
Jack D Sparks-Whirlpool Corporation Research Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Management and Organizations, Stephen M Ross School of Business
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4 Courses in this series
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Free U-M Access CourseInspiring and Motivating Individuals
Master goal-setting, team motivation, and performance strategies to improve engagement across cultures and work environments.
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Free U-M Access CourseInfluencing People
Develop skills to build influence without authority by using effective power dynamics, relationship strategies, and ethical persuasion techniques.
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Free U-M Access CourseSpeaking and Presenting: Poise
Discover how to build poise in presentations by making deliberate choices that improve clarity and connection.
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Free U-M Access CourseSpeaking and Presenting: Tact
Learn to craft personalized messages with tact to connect meaningfully with your audience in any speaking setting.
