Overview

The professional global landscape has an increasing need of international professionals to engage in immersive learning experiences and the need for leaders that can communicate with their teams effectively is in high demand. This specialization targets this issue directly and aims to give students a toolkit that prepares them for career opportunities in leadership roles.

Benefits

  • Learn from a highly-qualified instructor in the field
  • Develop collaboration and critical thinking skills
  • Grow your own skillset as a manager and successful leader
  • Network with international professionals
  • Explore the vibrant Orange County area of southern California
  • Gain a competitive edge in the global job market through the workshop curriculum and Certificate of Completion from a top 10 university in the United States

Curriculum

How to Communicate Effectively at WorkExpand
Research concludes that 85% of job success comes from having well-developed interpersonal skills while only 15% of job success comes from technical skills and knowledge. Whatever your personality profile, your ability to interact effectively with customers, clients, colleagues, managers, and other stakeholders drives your career success and sustainability.  Forty-50% of those working in today's fast-paced technical or scientific fields feel added pressure to project more typically extroverted qualities in order to create rapport and solve problems. Essential communication skills such as speaking up, collaborating on a team, and resolving and managing conflict can be uncomfortable and all too easy to avoid. This course addresses these differences by using the Everything DiSC Workplace assessment as a framework.

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Define workstyle behaviors and communication strategies
  • Practice skills for providing feedback and motivation to others
  • Discuss differences between destructive and productive conflict
  • Identify and describe individual DiSC workstyle behavior

Effective Business Writing for Workplace ProfessionalsExpand
Your ability to write effectively is one of your most powerful tools in the business environment.

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This class will help you organize your thoughts clearly so your ideas can be better understood by your specific audience. You'll discover the three primary types of business messages: positive, routine, and persuasive, as well as identify best practices for creating each type of message. Your writing will improve as you learn how to select and use appropriate formats for your audience, choose correct graphic tools, eliminate clutter, and recognize strong business writing. You'll also learn to spot and correct the most common business writing pitfalls as you gain valuable experience drafting, writing, and revising your own business writing messages. Finally, you'll learn the latest trends in contemporary business writing.

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Recognize three types of writing tone of voice
  • Apply best practices for various business documents and email communications
  • Describe current business writing trends

Essential Excel ToolsExpand
Get more out of Microsoft Excel by utilizing the full functionality of the production, enhancing your productivity, and obtaining better and more customized answers for greater success. This beginner-level course brings together all the simple techniques and useful knowledge you need: insights, tips, and shortcuts. Examples include drawing attention to specific sections, facilitating ease of view and comprehension, analyzing data simply and quickly, employing valuable formulas, communicating graphically, and summarizing groups of data.

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Build basic workbook skills and formatting, plus conditional formatting
  • Explain absolute and relative cell references
  • Filter and sort data
  • Utilize formulas and functions, including working with text and flash fill
  • Create tables and charts, such as histograms

Leading Through StorytellingExpand

Storytelling is one of our most powerful communication tools. However, many people don’t understand how to use stories to their advantage. To be an effective leader, you should know how to tell stories to inspire and motivate your team. This fun and interactive class will show you what makes an effective story, how to craft an engaging narrative, and how to connect to your audience through the power of your words.

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Brainstorm, workshop, and practice telling specific stories
  • Prepare a narrative on how you got started
  • Describe a challenge you overcame
  • Describe what keeps you going

Foundations of LeadershipExpand
Research suggests that in order to make sense of the complexity of modern organizations, those who aspire to lead must first seek to understand themselves. In this course, you will administer a variety of self-analysis instruments to understand and reflect on your own leadership preferences and behavioral tendencies. This course is a gateway into understanding what it takes to be an effective leader and assessing where you are now relative to those skills and that knowledge.

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  • Recognize communication styles in others
  • Describe their chosen leadership styles

PROGRAM COST

Tuition: $2,500(Approximate total cost: $3,500 USD, excludes airfare)

REQUIREMENTS

Some work experience

Recommended English language proficiency:TOEFL iBT 71 (or)IELTS 6.0 (or)TOEIC (685)

PROGRAM DATES

Winter 2020Jan 21 - Jan 25

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