Give your stakeholders the confidence and clarity to make decisions and take action. Learn to share your insights in a way that lets the audience absorb both the stated recommendation and everything behind it. In this course, you will be provided with our proprietary “5-S Model of Influential Communication” that will help you change the thinking of the audience in ways that will alter their decisions and actions as well as give them motivation to act with the appropriate level of urgency.
GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT
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Number of Sessions
Online: October 7 & 14, 2020 -
Number of Hours
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Eastern -
Course Investment*
Includes 20% Career Booster discount
Course Takeaways
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Connect the Story to the Strategy
Communication should tell the story we need in order to move the audience to decide and act accordingly. Develop a comprehensive strategy for your communication to ensure you achieve your desired result. -
Let the Story Drive the Slides
Slides play an intentional role in directing and holding the audience’s attention. Use the storyboard tool as a device to organize the story and the team.
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Craft Slides to Promote Understanding
Slides are not merely pages waiting for content. Learn how to make the appropriate trade-offs between using text, concept visuals, tables, and quantitative charts to ensure your message is delivered clearly and persuasively.
Influence Your Audience
How It Works
This online course will deliver 6 hours of interactive “classroom” learning (9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. each class day). You will complete some pre-work in advance of each “classroom” session.
Featured Instructor
Associate Dean of Goizueta IMPACT & Senior Lecturer in Organization & Management
Lynne Segall
Lynne G. Segall serves as Associate Dean of Goizueta IMPACT and as a Senior Lecturer in Organization & Management. IMPACT is a core part of the Goizueta MBA experience, designed to provide MBA students with both classroom and field experiences to learn and apply practical frameworks and systematic processes to address complex, real-world problems and facilitate effective action. In this role, Dean Segall leads the overall strategic direction for Goizueta’s project-based experiential learning programs including developing and teaching core courses, cultivating client relationships with the business community, and supporting Goizueta IMPACT360 elective faculty to ensure meaningful student and client experiences. Associate Dean Segall joined Goizueta in July 2015 after almost 16 years at Accenture.
Featured Instructor
Professor Emeritus in the Practice of Information Systems and Operations Management
Patrick Noonan
Patrick S. Noonan is Professor Emeritus in the Practice of Information Systems & Operations Management. He served as Goizueta’s first Associate Dean for Management Practice Initiatives (now “Goizueta IMPACT”) from 2012-2015, and as Assistant Dean and Director of MBA Programs from 1996-2000. He came to Emory in 1993 from the faculty of the Harvard Business School, where he had earned his PhD. in Decision Sciences. He also holds a BS in Engineering & Applied Science and an MBA, both from Yale University. His academic field is "decision analysis," which draws on both the wisdom and the analytical methodologies of economics, psychology, statistics, sociology and engineering to provide prescriptions for improving decision making in business, in the professions, in health sciences, in politics and in life.
High Impact Communications that get Results
Special Pricing
*Emory Executive Education offers special pricing for select constituents.
20% Career Booster Discount
Professional development is more important now than ever. But many professionals face shrinking organizational resources, and Emory Executive Education wants to ensure broad access to new knowledge and skills to prepare professionals to tackle the "next normal." We are offering a limited time 20% Career Booster discount to all participants who register for select courses by December 15, 2020. Please note, course discount price will vary per course and some workshops are not eligible. Please check course pages for more details.
Goizueta Business School Alumni/Faculty/Staff
Emory University Alumni/Faculty/Staff
Government and Non-Profit
Group/Multiple
Custom Clients
Organizations are also eligible for a group pricing package for sending multiples participants through our in-person and online programs over the course of a year. Please contact us for more information about our special pricing or to receive your code before you register.
20% Career Booster Discount
Professional development is more important now than ever. But many professionals face shrinking organizational resources, and Emory Executive Education wants to ensure broad access to new knowledge and skills to prepare professionals to tackle the "next normal." We are offering a limited time 20% Career Booster discount to all participants who register for select courses by December 15, 2020. Please note, course discount price will vary per course and some workshops are not eligible. Please check course pages for more details.
Goizueta Business School Alumni/Faculty/Staff
Emory University Alumni/Faculty/Staff
Government and Non-Profit
Group/Multiple
Custom Clients
Organizations are also eligible for a group pricing package for sending multiples participants through our in-person and online programs over the course of a year. Please contact us for more information about our special pricing or to receive your code before you register.