Professional Skills: Leading Through Effective Communication
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Professional Skills: Leading Through Effective Communication
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Instructor: Tyler Galarneau
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What you'll learn
Communicate with relatability and self-awareness to connect with your team.
Articulate a clear and inspiring vision to guide your team.
Build and foster successful teams and cultivate future leaders.
Skills you'll gain
- Succession Planning
- Visionary
- Leadership
- Trustworthiness
- Team Performance Management
- Professional Development
- Leadership Development
- Communication Strategies
- Team Collaboration
- Organizational Leadership
- Team Motivation
- Rapport Building
- Leadership and Management
- Communication
- Conflict Management
- Emotional Intelligence
- Collaboration
- Team Leadership
- People Development
- Employee Coaching
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March 2026
5 assignments
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There are 6 modules in this course
Master the leadership skill that matters most β communication. Learn to inspire, motivate, and guide your team by crafting clear, engaging, and inclusive messages.
Whether you lead a small team or a large organization, your communication sets the tone. Developed with CommLabASU and Dr. Brent Scholar, this course provides actionable strategies to help you become a more effective, respected leader. You'll explore how to align vision with communication, motivate teams, build trust, and create psychologically safe environments. With practical tools and hands-on practice, youβll enhance your ability to lead with clarity, empathy, and purpose.
This module focuses on the critical skill of communicating with relatability and self-awareness. You will explore the underlying causes and resources that contribute to effective relatable communication, and learn how to adopt a self-aware approach in your interactions. Through practical exercises and reflections, you will develop the ability to connect authentically with your audience, fostering trust and understanding. This module will equip you with the tools to enhance your communication impact by understanding both yourself and your listeners.
What's included
1 assignment7 plugins
1 assignmentβ’Total 10 minutes
- Quiz: Sending a message with relatabilityβ’10 minutes
7 pluginsβ’Total 43 minutes
- Sending a message with relatability: Causes and resourcesβ’3 minutes
- Sending a message with relatability: Taking a self-aware approachβ’4 minutes
- Practice the solution: Sending a message with relatabilityβ’10 minutes
- Job aid: How to lead through effective communicationβ’3 minutes
- Reflect on the solution: Sending a message with relatabilityβ’10 minutes
- Achieving self-awareness: Key takeawaysβ’3 minutes
- Apply the solution: Sending a message with relatabilityβ’10 minutes
In this module, you will learn how to effectively articulate and share your vision as a leader. A clear and inspiring vision is crucial for guiding your team and motivating them towards common goals. You will investigate the factors that enable a compelling vision and discover techniques for producing clarity in your leadership message. This module will provide you with the skills to communicate your strategic direction with confidence and inspire your team to embrace and work towards that vision.
What's included
1 assignment7 plugins
1 assignmentβ’Total 8 minutes
- Quiz: Sharing your vision as a leaderβ’8 minutes
7 pluginsβ’Total 44 minutes
- Sharing your vision as a leader: Causes and resourcesβ’3 minutes
- Sharing your vision as a leader: Producing a clarity of visionβ’5 minutes
- Practice the solution: Sharing your vision as a leaderβ’10 minutes
- Job aid: Tips on how to share your vision as a leaderβ’3 minutes
- Reflect on the solution: Sharing your vision as a leaderβ’10 minutes
- Leading with a vision: Key takeawaysβ’3 minutes
- Apply the solution: Leading with a visionβ’10 minutes
Building and leading a successful team is a cornerstone of effective leadership. This module will guide you through the process of assembling a high-performing team, focusing on the essential elements that contribute to team success. You will learn how to identify and leverage individual strengths, foster a collaborative team mindset, and address common challenges in team dynamics. By the end of this module, you will have a comprehensive understanding of how to build, nurture, and lead a team that achieves its objectives.
What's included
1 assignment8 plugins
1 assignmentβ’Total 10 minutes
- Quiz: Assembling a successful teamβ’10 minutes
8 pluginsβ’Total 47 minutes
- Assembling a successful team: Causes and resourcesβ’3 minutes
- Assembling a successful team: Building up your teamβ’5 minutes
- Practice the solution: Assembling a successful teamβ’10 minutes
- Job aid: Building up your teamβ’3 minutes
- Job aid: Building a team mindsetβ’3 minutes
- Reflect on the solution: Assembling a successful teamβ’10 minutes
- What a team needs to succeed: Key takeawaysβ’3 minutes
- Apply the solution: Assembling a successful teamβ’10 minutes
Investing in the development of future leaders is a critical responsibility for any effective leader. This module will equip you with the knowledge and skills to identify, mentor, and empower emerging talent within your organization. You will explore how to hone your own leadership skills by investing in others and understand the distinction between a leader and a manager. This module will enable you to create a legacy of strong leadership by fostering growth and development in those around you.
What's included
1 assignment7 plugins
1 assignmentβ’Total 10 minutes
- Quiz: Building future leadersβ’10 minutes
7 pluginsβ’Total 42 minutes
- Building future leaders: Causes and resourcesβ’3 minutes
- Building future leaders: Honing your leadership with othersβ’3 minutes
- Practice the Solution: Building future leadersβ’10 minutes
- Job aid: Leader vs. managerβ’3 minutes
- Reflect on the solution: Building future leadersβ’10 minutes
- Investing in others: Key takeawaysβ’3 minutes
- Apply the solution: Building future leadersβ’10 minutes
Creating a safe and open environment for communication is paramount for fostering trust, collaboration, and innovation within any team or organization. This module will delve into the principles and practices of establishing such spaces. You will learn to identify the factors that contribute to healthy communication environments and discover strategies for setting up a healthier and more inclusive atmosphere. By the end of this module, you will be able to cultivate environments where individuals feel comfortable expressing their ideas, concerns, and feedback.
What's included
1 assignment7 plugins
1 assignmentβ’Total 10 minutes
- Quiz: Making safe spaces to communicateβ’10 minutes
7 pluginsβ’Total 45 minutes
- Making safe spaces to communicate: Causes and resourcesβ’3 minutes
- Making safe spaces to communicate: Setting up a healthier environmentβ’6 minutes
- Practice the solution: Making safe spaces to communicateβ’10 minutes
- Job aid: Setting up a healthy communication environmentβ’3 minutes
- Reflect on the solution: Making safe spaces to communicateβ’10 minutes
- A safe setting for sharing: Key takeawaysβ’3 minutes
- Apply the solution: Making safe spaces to communicateβ’10 minutes
This module serves as the conclusion to the course, providing an opportunity to provide feedback on the course through a survey and acknowledge your completion of the program. This final module ensures that you leave with a comprehensive understanding of the course material and a clear path forward for applying your newly acquired leadership communication skills.
What's included
1 reading1 plugin
1 readingβ’Total 3 minutes
- End of course surveyβ’3 minutes
1 pluginβ’Total 3 minutes
- End of course surveyβ’3 minutes
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