Persuasive Communication Bootcamp

Persuasive Communication Bootcamp
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MIT Professional Education
Overview

Thinking about a career change? Identify your key strengths and professional skills, and learn how to sell them and yourself.

Explore the impact of the Digital Revolution on professional communications
Get certified on completion of course
Learn the skills like - public speaking, critical thinking, visual persuasion/data visualization, audience adaptation

Skills you will learn

Who should do this course?

This course is designed for engineers and non-engineers who need to talk with each other, any professional wanting to improve their ability to present and persuade others within their organization or outside of it, and professionals who need to deliver messages across different media channels and to diverse audiences, as well as those who wish to enhance their critical thinking abilities to construct and evaluate claims and arguments with positive outcomes

What are the course deliverables?

Understand the relevant theoretical and practical knowledge behind communication and persuasive speaking
Enhance critical thinking abilities to construct and evaluate claims and arguments with positive outcomes
Explore the impact of the Digital Revolution on professional communications Improve your presentation skills
Adapt and translate your messages across different audiences, especially those with differing levels of scientific and technical expertise
Learn "compliance gaining" persuasive strategies to change workplace culture
Understand the importance of intercultural differences in persuasion in order to be a global communicator

More about this course

Have you ever been frustrated when trying to explain a technical problem to someone without technical knowledge? Have your peers experienced greater professional success, not necessarily because their ideas are better, but because they can express them more clearly and persuasively?
It may be a commonly held belief that engineering and technical professionals don't need well-developed written and oral skills, but effective communication is often the top skill today'companies value in all their employees.