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COMMUNICATION
Communication is the foundation for all relationships. It is a make-or-break skill that is the key to all management, operational, and employee functions in any company. Effective communication at all levels will lead to a company’s success. These career-changing seminars are designed to open the ears and minds of experienced and non-experienced communicators to achieve greater impact on an organization.
Featured Courses
Redtag Workshop: The Future of Digital Advertising
Join Louisville's very own Redtag, a full-service branding and advertising agency, for this half-day workshop to learn about the future of digital advertising! Topics include social media and short-form advertising, AI tools, best practices and so much more!
Inquire about upcoming sessions at ExecEd@louisville.edu.
Inquire about upcoming sessions at ExecEd@louisville.edu.
Strategic Communication Certificate
This 2-day certificate will prepare you to lead your team through complicated challenges with sophisticated communication skills. Current and aspiring leaders will benefit from this competency-based strategic communication course.
Inquire about upcoming sessions at ExecEd@louisville.edu.
Inquire about upcoming sessions at ExecEd@louisville.edu.
Certificate Programs
Strategic Communication Certificate
Executive Education at the the University of Louisville's College of Business introduces a new competency-based approach to solving real communication challenges in the workplace. Through a holistic methodology to communication across the spectrum of workplace challenges, attendees will earn a Strategic Communication Certificate by first completing an online self-paced elearning module developed by UofL faculty, and subsequently attending four half-day problem-based seminars to apply proven strategies to real organizational problems while receiving personalized feedback from highly-trained facilitators. Individuals who earn a Strategic Communication Certificate will be prepared to lead their teams through complicated challenges with sophisticated communication skills.
Who should seek this certificate? Executives, managers and aspiring leaders at all levels in their career and company will benefit from earning this certificate. With up to 85% of professional work requiring collaboration, sophisticated communication skills that can be directly applied to solve dynamic and complicated problems is extremely important for leaders or those seeking leadership opportunities. Therefore, this certificate is designed for current and future managers who seek to lead others through modern organizational challenges via strategic communication.
What makes this certificate unique? This certificate builds on the foundations of the University of Louisville's internationally-recognized business communication program. It is developed and facilitated by UofL faculty who have extensive backgrounds, research, and experience with the subject. Moreover, the certificate is designed to be oriented toward real-world problem-solving and practical application, with real time feedback to evaluate effectiveness. Courses were designed from research and interviews with executives to identify and address complicated challenges facing modern organizations.
How and when will courses be delivered? This program includes both face-to-face and self-paced online content. Attendees will first gain access to the self-paced online Strategic Managerial Communication Bootcamp. This bootcamp will introduce attendees to critical competencies and the foundational principles underscoring the numerous communication strategies embedded throughout the certificate. Pre-work submissions will be required in this module prior to participating in the challenges/courses that are listed below. Portions of the pre-work will be used to construct and enrich the challenges that each attendee will address during his/her time in class. This online bootcamp will take approximately four hours to complete.
Upon conclusion of the bootcamp, participants will attend a two-day classroom workshop. This workshop will cover four workplace challenges and the ways that excellent communicators can navigate through them. Upon conclusion of the bootcamp and the challenge-based courses, you will be awarded a certificate in Strategic Communication from the University of Louisville!
Program Outline
Who should seek this certificate? Executives, managers and aspiring leaders at all levels in their career and company will benefit from earning this certificate. With up to 85% of professional work requiring collaboration, sophisticated communication skills that can be directly applied to solve dynamic and complicated problems is extremely important for leaders or those seeking leadership opportunities. Therefore, this certificate is designed for current and future managers who seek to lead others through modern organizational challenges via strategic communication.
What makes this certificate unique? This certificate builds on the foundations of the University of Louisville's internationally-recognized business communication program. It is developed and facilitated by UofL faculty who have extensive backgrounds, research, and experience with the subject. Moreover, the certificate is designed to be oriented toward real-world problem-solving and practical application, with real time feedback to evaluate effectiveness. Courses were designed from research and interviews with executives to identify and address complicated challenges facing modern organizations.
How and when will courses be delivered? This program includes both face-to-face and self-paced online content. Attendees will first gain access to the self-paced online Strategic Managerial Communication Bootcamp. This bootcamp will introduce attendees to critical competencies and the foundational principles underscoring the numerous communication strategies embedded throughout the certificate. Pre-work submissions will be required in this module prior to participating in the challenges/courses that are listed below. Portions of the pre-work will be used to construct and enrich the challenges that each attendee will address during his/her time in class. This online bootcamp will take approximately four hours to complete.
Upon conclusion of the bootcamp, participants will attend a two-day classroom workshop. This workshop will cover four workplace challenges and the ways that excellent communicators can navigate through them. Upon conclusion of the bootcamp and the challenge-based courses, you will be awarded a certificate in Strategic Communication from the University of Louisville!
Program Outline
- Strategic Communication Bootcamp (self-paced asynchronous, online, roughly 3 hours)
- Workshop Day 1 (in-person)
- Challenge: Communicating Change
- Challenge: Communicating Conflict
- Workshop Day 2 (in-person)
- Challenge: Communicating Across Generations
- Challenge: Communicating Feedback