Hal Weitzman
Adjunct Professor of Behavioral Science
Hal Weitzman
Effective Business Communication—Online
Enhance your interpersonal communication skills, executive presence, and ability to motivate and persuade others.
Next Session
October 6-November 16, 2026
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Location/Format
Online
Investment Fee (in USD)
$3,200 USD
Questions? Connect with our enrollment advisors.
Next Session
October 6-November 16, 2026
View All Dates
Location/Format
Online
Investment Fee (in USD)
$3,200 USD
Questions? Connect with our enrollment advisors.
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).
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.
Format
Online with live-online sessions.
Program Duration
Six weeks, 4–6 hours per week
Frequency
Offered three times per year, Spring, Fall, and Winter
- Sessions are generaly held on Wednesdays from 9 A.M. - 10:30 A.M. CT
- View the upcoming cohort live-online session schedule
Who Should Attend
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.
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Faculty Teaching This Program
At Booth, our distinguished faculty exemplify dedication and expertise, bringing deep passion to their teaching. Their steadfast commitment extends beyond traditional instruction, focusing on empowering every Executive Education participant, across all programs and global campuses, to achieve their professional and leadership goals.
Program Outline
- Understand what persuasion is and is not.
- Analyze your current communication skills.
- Make your daily communication more deliberate and focused.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Past Participant Insights
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“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 -
“This program ticked all the right boxes. I’m prepared to leverage the skills I learned in day-to-day operations.”
—Opeyemi Familade, Senior Manager, Visa Directý
Advance Registration Benefit
Fall 2026 offerings of this program include an advance registration benefit when you register by the specified date. Discount is applied during the registration process.
- October cohort: $3,200 USD ($2,900 if registered by September 22, 2026)
- December cohort: $3,200 USD ($2,900 if registered by November 17, 2026)
Upcoming Sessions
Program dates are subject to change.
Download Brochure
Download the program brochure for in-depth insights on who should attend, a schedule preview, past participant profiles, location highlights, networking opportunities, and what to expect. When doing so, you’ll also receive an editable justification letter to help you make the case to your employer for your attendance.
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