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Communication Rakesh Godhwani
Communication Rakesh Godhwani
PGP Term 4
Credits - 3
Course objective:
The art of communication is the language of leadership. In a few months, the PGP students will become
managers in prestigious companies or start their own. Communication is one of the most important
skills they would need to persuade their customers or colleagues and begin their journey to be called
leaders some day. An essential leadership quality is to communicate effectively and to persuade,
influence and inspire others. This course is essentially designed to help the students get ready to enter
the corporate as managers who will be expected to get things done starting from how to handle job
interviews, how to handle situations and overall, how to persuade their peers and fellow colleagues to
get things done.
In this course titled Communication for Leaders, offered in Term 6 of PGP program, we will attempt a
deep dive on communication styles of great leaders, what makes them powerful communicators, how
they structure their messages, how they deliver their talks and how they impact their audience. The aim
of the sessions is to guide the participants through an advanced step-by-step process of structuring a
persuasive message and choosing the medium which it will go through to reach the intended audience
in a corporate context. The most common of these scenarios for communication in the corporate
context are the following:
At the end of the course, the participants will be able to apply the techniques and frameworks adopted
by famous leaders in their own communication style to become high impact communicators and
leaders. Throughout this course, participants will be encouraged to think actively about their own
communication style, and how they can align their personal values and leadership qualities with their
communication. This is a course of doing, as much as learning and they gain the most if they are
prepared to work intensively with the class exercises. We will review lot of videos and texts of speeches
of great leaders and the course is designed to foster t engaging discussions and constructive
development through positive feedback.
The course is divided in 6 modules and will be covered in 20 sessions of 1.5 hours each
Readings
WTSWSUP text book chapters 13
The Job Interview Chris Hartung
To hire or not to hire Sharbelle
Fernandez DH
What employers
Want from MBAs this year - John Byrne
Session 5. Video resume 25% of
the course grading
Readings
Telling Tales (HBR) Stephen Denning
A little bit of slope
The Karaoke Effect
Videos
Steve Jobs speech in Stanford 3 stories
of my life
Readings
Text book WTSWSUP chapter 14
The art of conversations Maria Papova
Dale Carnegie Part 2- chapter 2 4 5 6
Pedagogy:
1. Student presentations and class discussions
2. Review of speeches of leaders videos and texts
3. Practice sessions for impromptu speaking
4. In class practice sessions and role plays for different communication scenarios
5. Brainstorming and peer support in small group interactions
Evaluation
1. What did I learn self learning sheets for each session 10%
2. Individual Written Assignment 25%
3. Video Resume - 25%
4. End-Term - 40%