Special Event: Experience EMBA-Saturday - Virtual Class Visit

Experience what it is like to be a student in our EMBA program by attending a virtual class visit of The Leader's Voice, an elective course co-taught by Professor Bradley Aspel and Professor Angela Lee. The livestream will begin at 12:30 p.m. and conclude at 3:30 p.m. There will be a short break about halfway through the class. We will provide the link for the livestream to all registrants on the morning of the event.

The Leader's Voice: Communication Skills for Leading Organizations

Leadership roles can involve a wide range of communication challenges—mentoring a struggling colleague, persuading investors to invest in your company, rallying an auditorium of new employees, aligning a team on a new hire, working the room at an industry event, handling tough questions from the media, managing the challenges of cross-functional team projects, convincing your boss to re-prioritize a list of projects, running team meetings in ways that elicit candid conversation and learning.

The goal of this class is to broaden your repertoire, to make you a more versatile communicator who can adapt your way of communicating to meet many different challenges. This involves verbal, written, and non-verbal skills. This course involves both self-reflection as well as outward awareness. Self-reflection includes understanding our motivators, our current communication habits, and our leadership aspirations as to how we wish to be perceived. Outward awareness includes one-on-one as well as group/team communications: how to fully understand one’s audience, how to listen with all our senses, how to influence and manage both an individual and a team.We aim to develop two kinds of knowledge—conceptual understanding and procedural skill. Each session will involve some class discussion about frameworks and cases and some active participation in exercises. We employ role-play simulations and personalized feedback (from peers and through video) to practice and polish the behavioral skills. This class will draw on your own past work experience to draw examples of management challenges and best practices.