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
February 17-March 30, 2026
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Location/Format
Online
Investment Fee (in USD)
$3,200 USD
Questions? Connect with our enrollment advisors.
Next Session
February 17-March 30, 2026
View All Dates
Location/Format
Online
Investment Fee (in USD)
$3,200 USD
Questions? Connect with our enrollment advisors.
In a world where businesses are increasingly interconnected, communication is perhaps the most essential skill managers can hone.
Gain confidence in your ability to motivate and persuade. Through frameworks, practice, feedback, and tailored guidance, you'll emerge a more effective and inspiring leader, capable of transforming ideas into impact for your organization.
- Enhance your ability to persuade people by using frameworks that will make your communication engaging, memorable, and compelling.
- Become clear, concise, and confident when communicating your ideas and thoughts to others.
- Develop a deep understanding of the process, structure, and style of effective communication.
- Strengthen your executive presence: learn how to project confidence, empathy, and thoughtfulness when communicating both in-person and online.
- Discover a range of tools to deploy in the real world, practice them, and receive detailed feedback.
- Acquire the ability to analyze an audience quickly and identify how to win them over.
- Learn how to structure your arguments to make them clear and powerful.
- Gain experience in public speaking and learn how to improve.
Format
Online with live-online sessions
Program Duration
Six weeks, 5–6 hours per week
A High-Impact Learning Format
This program incorporates six live-online sessions with program faculty and mentors in addition to self-paced learning modules. You’ll experience a blend of classroom sessions, group discussions, case studies, and assessments. Each module builds on the last, ensuring an impactful learning experience that makes you confident in your new skills and ready to drive change.
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
Upcoming Sessions
Program dates are subject to change.
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