Effective Business Communication—Online

Chicago Booth School of Business

Leadership Programs

About Programme

Enhance your interpersonal communication skills, executive presence, and ability to motivate and persuade others.

Effective Business Communication—a six-week online program that blends self-paced online modules with live-online sessions—helps leaders communicate with greater clarity, confidence, and influence. Through evidence-based frameworks, practical exercises, and personalized feedback, you'll strengthen your ability to inspire action, build trust, and drive results across your organization.

In today's fast-paced business environment, leaders must communicate with purpose to engage teams, influence stakeholders, and navigate increasingly complex challenges. This six-week program equips you with practical communication strategies to strengthen executive presence, deliver persuasive presentations, lead difficult conversations, and tailor your message for different audiences.

You'll apply proven communication frameworks through interactive exercises, real-world practice, and live faculty guidance—building habits and skills you can immediately use to lead more effectively.

This program is solely owned and managed by Chicago Booth (no external partners).

Programme Content

Life is Not a TED Talk

Understand what persuasion is and is not.

Analyze your current communication skills.

Make your daily communication more deliberate and focused.

Not About What You Say, but About How You Are Heard

Learn about why companies so often misjudge their audiences.

Develop tools to analyze the audiences you want to win over.

Explore the power of good questions.

Building Up, Not Cutting Down

Discover the role of narratives in influencing your audience.

Explore the narrative structure and process, beginning the “big why.”

Learn to frame problems in a way that will make your audience want to help you solve them.

Narrative—Openings and Closings

Learn how to hook and engage an audience from the start.

Explore communication techniques such as dropped introductions, calls to action, and outros.

Examine how to close a narrative.

Articulating Your Superpower

Discover how to identify and convey your personal brand.

Explore how to capture the value you bring.

Learn how to build and maintain professional networks.

Turning Skills into Habits

Identify how to turn the new skills you’ve learned into successful habits.

Build a six-month personal development plan that sets goals and measures progress.

Programme Objective

By attending this program, you will explore key themes in:

Executive Presence and Effective Communication

Communicate with greater clarity, confidence, and concision across a range of professional settings.

Strengthen your executive presence by projecting confidence, empathy, and thoughtfulness in both in-person and virtual environments.

Develop a deeper understanding of the process, structure, and style of effective communication.

Persuasive Communication & Audience Engagement

Apply proven communication frameworks to make your messages engaging, memorable, and persuasive.

Analyze your audience and tailor your communication to build trust, inspire action, and influence outcomes.

Structure your arguments with clarity and purpose to communicate your ideas more effectively.

Practical Communication Skills

Build practical communication habits through real-world exercises, public speaking practice, and personalized feedback.

Develop a toolkit of communication strategies you can immediately apply in the workplace.

Strengthen your ability to communicate with confidence across presentations, meetings, and everyday leadership interactions.

Programme Audience

Mid- to senior-level leaders from any functional area who want to elevate their communication to inspire action and drive results with clients, colleagues, and stakeholders.

Download the program brochure for in-depth insights into who should attend, participant profiles, and the ideal candidate. Download brochure

Testimonials

"Professor Weitzman's teaching style is extremely engaging, which allowed easy uptake of the material. The communication strategies and supporting structures that he delivers in this program have given me a useful framework for presenting."

Ken Nupert

Vice President Health, Safety, Security and Environment, Apache Corporation

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