High-Impact Leadership

One of the most important leadership skills is the ability to effectively communicate and connect with varied audiences in the workplace. During this personal leadership development journey, you’ll explore your authentic style to establish your voice, presence, and abilities as a leader in communications. Through powerful theater techniques, role-playing, and personal coaching, you will learn to become a more charismatic, collaborative, and influential leader and more effectively connect with your audience to build stronger business and relationships.

Join us at the Berkeley Haas campus for our three-day in-person leadership communication skills training or choose the flexible Exec Ed Lab; a virtual three-day learning experience that maximizes interaction and collaboration with faculty and groups - wherever you are.

Improve Your Leadership Communication Delivery

Practice powerful theater techniques to actively communicate using voice, body, imagination, and energy to realize your potential as a transformative leader.

Connect with Your Audience through Storytelling

Engage in storytelling that moves people, creates influence over an audience and leaves a lasting impression that impacts the energy and performance of your team, department, or organization.

Transform Your Communication Challenges into Strengths

Identify your challenge areas and leave your comfort zone to build communication strengths such as ‘thinking on your feet’ using valuable leadership skills like ‘spontaneity’.

Build Meaningful Business Relationships, Interpersonal Relationships, and Partnerships

Employ the art of giving and receiving constructive feedback and create a community of excellence through active communication and engagement in productive interpersonal exchanges.

Have Greater and More Memorable Impact Through Your Leadership Presence

Find the right communication approach that reflects your own, authentic leadership style. Leverage your newfound style to achieve transformational leadership.

Features

ONLINE

• Three-day virtual communication intensive program utilizing the flexible, online ExecEd Digital Lab
• Program sessions held from 9:00 am-3:30 pm PST
• World-renowned Berkeley Haas and Executive Education Faculty
• Former professional actor Mark Rittenberg as Faculty Director
• Supportive participant community curated through practical group exercises and peer feedback
• Interactive and collaborative learning environment
• Extended post-program access to select course material
• Access to the program alumni community
• High-Impact Leadership Certificate of Completion

IN-PERSON

• Three-day communication intensive program at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business campus
• World-renowned Berkeley Haas and Executive Education Faculty
• Former professional actor Mark Rittenberg
• Practical application
• A highly interactive learning environment
• Exclusive networking reception with faculty
• Access to the program alumni community
• High-Impact Leadership Certificate of Completion

PROGRAM TOPICS

The High-Impact Leadership program curriculum covers the following topics:

TOPIC 1 | The Art of Leadership Presence

• The four universal communication principles
• The power of presence in effective leadership
• The ten active communication skills

TOPIC 2 | Motivating, Inspiring and Reaching Out to Others

• Active communicating using voice, body, imagination, and energy
• Theater as heightened communication
• Thinking on your feet: the skill of spontaneity

TOPIC 3 | The Leader as Communicator

• The power of dialogue
• Building meaningful relationships in the workplace
• Dialogue and courageous conversations
• The art of giving and receiving constructive feedback
• Creating a community of excellence through communication
• Leadership stories and exercises

TOPIC 4 | The Leader as Coach

• The primary skills of the coach
  
• Mastering the tools of the coach
• The three types of listening
• The art of curious questioning
• Listening skills and asking the right questions
• Playback and empathy and coaching tools