15.281
Advanced Leadership Communication
Introduces interactive oral and interpersonal communication skills critical to leaders, including strategies for presenting to a hostile audience, running effective and productive meetings, active listening, and contributing to group decision-making. Includes team-run classes on chosen communication topics, and an individual analysis of leadership qualities and characteristics. Students deliver an oral presentation and an executive summary, both aimed at a business audience.
Spring 2016 · Advanced Communication for Leaders
Topics
- Leadership Communication: Understanding Your Communication Style
- Leadership Communication: Crafting Your Vision of Leadership
- Leadership Communication: Speaking to Motivate and Inspire
- Leadership Communication: Motivational Speeches
- Leadership Communication: Listening and The Power of Inquiry
- Leadership Communication: Maximizing Feedback Conversations
- Leadership Communication: Handling Hostility
- Leadership communication: Working in teams: Part I
- Leadership Communication: Presenting to a Hostile Audience
- Leadership Communication: Presenting to a Hostile Audience (cont.)
- Leadership Communication: Working With Teams: Part II
- Leadership Communication: Making Group Decisions
- Leadership Communication: Communicating with Diverse Audiences
- Leadership Communication: Managing a Crisis
- Leadership Communication: Teaching 15.281 Team-led Class on Data Visualization
- Leadership Communication: Teaching 15.281 Team-led Class on Social Media Within Organizations
- Leadership Communication: Teaching 15.281 Team-led Class on Intercultural Communication
- Leadership Communication: Teaching 15.281 Team-led Class on Dispersed or Virtual Teams
- Leadership Communication: Teaching 15.281 Team-led Class on Emerging Communication Technologies
- Giving and Receiving Intra-team Feedback
- Presenting Lessons from Leadership Interview
- Presenting Lessons from Leadership Interview (cont.)
- Class Finale: Review and Reflection
Readings
- Kinni, Theodore. “Is One-dimensional Communication Limiting Your Leadership?” Harvard Business Review , May 2003.
- SES #: 5 · TOPICS: Leadership Communication: Motivational Speeches · READINGS AND VIDEOS: No readings
- SES #: 10 · TOPICS: Leadership Communication: Presenting to a Hostile Audience · READINGS AND VIDEOS: No readings
- SES #: 11 · TOPICS: Leadership Communication: Presenting to a Hostile Audience · READINGS AND VIDEOS: No readings
- SES #: 12 · TOPICS: Leadership Communication: Working With Teams: Part II · READINGS AND VIDEOS: Schein, Edgar Henry. Process Consultation: Its Role in Organization Development . Vol. 1. FT Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780201067361.
- SES #: 21 · TOPICS: Giving and Receiving Intra-team Feedback · READINGS AND VIDEOS: No readings
- SES #: 22 · TOPICS: Presenting Lessons from Leadership Interview · READINGS AND VIDEOS: No readings
- SES #: 23 · TOPICS: Presenting Lessons from Leadership Interview · READINGS AND VIDEOS: No readings
- SES #: 24 · TOPICS: Class Finale: Review and Reflection · READINGS AND VIDEOS: No readings
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: 15.279 , 15.280 , 15.284 , or permission of instructor G (Spring) 3-0-6 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2016
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.