Communications Excellence
Communications Excellence
Overview
2-day in-person or 3-day online program
Speaking with confidence and effective business communication skills can dramatically change an executive’s impact as a leader. Whether it be in meetings, town halls, or presentations, a confident leader needs compelling interpersonal relationships and professional communication skills to bring their work to the next level.
The Communications Excellence program is a communication skills training where you will discover the importance of leadership and communication and its relationship to productive business approaches. You will be empowered to ditch your public speaking anxiety and develop your effective presentation abilities that will inspire the audience.
Develop personal strategies to advance good communication skills uniquely suited to you and your business.
Understand why communication is important in business and learn how to tailor your verbal, nonverbal, or communications tools, such as presentations and PowerPoint.
Leverage your breath, body, and voice to maximize your impact and presence while public speaking. Through intentional practice, you will master how to seamlessly integrate each element of effective communication.
Learn how to create a memorable pitch that demonstrates your communications skills and connects your audience with a message that is authentic, clear, and powerful.
Recognize when something is not working and know how to confidently adjust by applying high-level presentation skills.
Features, Dates, & Cost
In-Person
- Two-day in-person, communication-intensive at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business campus
- Executive communication skills training
- World-renowned Berkeley Haas and Executive Education Faculty
- Exercises to identify and develop your personal communication success strategies - suited to you and your business
- Blend of group exercises and one-on-one coaching
- Guided practice and rehearsal components built into the program structure
- Exclusive networking opportunities
- Access to the program alumni community
- Communications Excellence Certificate of Completion
Thursday - Friday 8:00 am-5:00 pm PT
Online
- Three-day virtual, communication-intensive online program utilizing the flexible Lab platform
- Program sessions held from 9:00 am-3:30 pm PT
- Executive communication skills training
- World-renowned Berkeley Haas and Executive Education Faculty
- Exercises to identify and develop your personal communication success strategies - suited to you and your business
- Blend of group exercises and one-on-one coaching
- Guided practice and rehearsal components built into the program structure
- Exclusive networking opportunities
- Access to the program alumni community
- Communications Excellence Certificate of Completion
Online Program Orientation: 1:00-2:00 pm PT
Wednesday-Friday 9:00 am-3:30 pm PT
*These programs are run as live sessions and require active participation in breakouts with peer discussions. Your engagement in these sessions are critical to the program experience for you and your fellow classmates
We are currently in the process of scheduling future dates. Please join our contact list to be informed when we schedule new program dates.
Who It's For
- Senior leadership executives and high-potential professionals in Business Development, Sales, and Marketing Teams
- Professionals in leadership roles at Nonprofit and Service Organizations
- Web Developers and Engineers
- Entrepreneurs seeking to develop profound leadership communications skills
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Faculty
Group Programs
Certificates
Certificate of Completion
Signal your professional achievement to your network and get recognized for your completion! Upon successful completion of the program, UC Berkeley Executive Education grants a verified digital certificate of completion to participants that you are encouraged to add to your profiles.
Note: This program results in a digital certificate of completion and is not eligible for degree credit/CEUs. After successful completion of the program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you directly. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of UC Berkeley Executive Education.
Participants in the Certificate of Business Excellence (COBE) program will earn a mark of distinction from a world-class university, gain access to a powerful global network, and enjoy the flexibility of completing the program in up to three years. A UC Berkeley Certificate of Business Excellence allows individuals to create a personal learning journey structured by our four academic pillars to gain management essentials in Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, and Finance to drive both personal and organizational development.
Testimonials
"The world of work is changing: the future of work is now hybrid, so it is very important to improve your communication skills in person and virtually. This Communication's Excellence training will guide you to communicate your ideas, projects, goals or any topic with your clients, suppliers, managers or even with the people you love in a better way. I started using the things I learned the same week and I know that I will continue to use them because I am seeing how my communication has improved."
- Large Enterprise Account Leader, Slack"Opened up new doors for me that I didn’t know existed."
- Senior Executive, Salesforce"I've done a fair amount of public speaking over the years but I felt as though it's something that you always need to work at to improve, so for me, the content of this course and the focusing on storytelling resonated. The content of the course goes beyond the basics of public speaking or using PowerPoint and really into how to captivate your audience, how to enchant them, and that's something we all want to achieve. One of the highlights is the breathing exercises and really understanding that when you are in front of an audience, you can benefit from techniques to collect your thoughts, remain calm, and have your whole body helping you rather than hindering you."
- Chief Investment Officer, Winton Capital Management"I have taken other communication presentation-style courses. The aspect that I think made this course different is first of all, the peer group. There were a lot of helpful insights from my peers and secondly, an area that I need to work on, is in developing my presence and controlling-my-breath techniques prior to a presentation. In that area, this course really helped me to think about those aspects beyond just the content of my presentation."
- Business Development Executive, FM Global"This program absolutely exceeded my expectation. This so far is the only program that I've researched that covers the holistic communication skills from your content structure, from focusing on you as the media to deliver the message, to make sure that your audience gives you that, "Yes, I agree to your pitch." It moves you out of your comfort zone and it broadens the zone that you're used to. That will give you some profound thinking about how you're going to go about your leadership development."
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