Leadership Communication
Course Outcomes
- Apply leadership and communication techniques to drive business success and become a more effective leader
- Implement best practices for influencing employees, managers, subordinates, customers, and other stakeholders
- Effectively handle challenges such as delivering unpopular news, increasing team motivation, and restoring credibility
- Communicate confidently in any environment, from elevator pitches to high-stakes presentations that earn buy-in and cooperation
- Deliver powerful messages that lead to action and control emotions when facing resistance
- Sell your organization's vision, mission, and values to your team members
Communication skills are essential for leadership
As your responsibilities grow, your communication skills can either help you or hinder you. In this leadership course, you'll learn the best tools and techniques used by successful managers all over the world. You'll then have the opportunity to put these skills into practice.
From boardroom pitches to networking events and conference talks, this course will help you become more persuasive and influential in a variety of settings. By the end of this leadership course, you'll return to your role as a more confident communicator with a solid understanding of why and how to shift between communication types and lead your team to success.
The practice exercises allow you to test out new approaches and communication styles in a safe space, without fear of judgment or consequences. You'll receive instant feedback on your performance and can repeat the exercises as often as you like until you speak with clarity and conviction, and feel comfortable acting on your skills in the real world.
You'll finish the course with the skills you need to engage, inform and inspire others, and improve your ability to communicate like a top leader.
Online learning, done differently
Learn in online classes
Practice with exercises
Improve with feedback
Course Content
Example videos
Throughout this course, you'll watch real-life video examples of the skills being taught, including how to start a presentation, use your voice effectively, and answer audience questions.
Learn from these videos and transfer the skills to your own public speaking.
Practice exercises
Practice your public speaking with interactive and engaging exercises. At key points during the course, you'll be prompted to practice what you've learned in one of the following exercises.
Pitching a new project
Deliver a presentation to your team for a new project. Load your slides into the exercise and use the speech analysis feature to get feedback on your delivery.
Active listening exercises
Active listening exercises, including the classic Goldilocks exercise, and a conference call exercise. Quizzes at the end of both to test your listening skills.
Media scenarios tour
This audio narrated tour explores common media situations you may find yourself in, from TV interviews to press conferences to radio interviews.
Debating with AI
Practice your debating skills on any topic with AI-powered avatars. You can prepare by selecting either a moderated or one-on-one debate.
TEDx Talk about your vision
Use speech insight technology, you'll receive feedback on 15 different areas of your speech. Understanding how your audience is likely to perceive your new company vision.
Press statement
Deliver a press statement and answer questions from journalists in a small conference room. Load in custom audience questions to practice for a specific event.
Roleplay with AI-powered avatars
Features in the practice exercises
Improve faster and practice what you learn with these features.
What's included in this course:
- 4 hours of learning
- 6 case studies
- 7 practice exercises
- Access to updated content
- Quizzes and assessment
- Earn a digital course certificate
- Flexible, self-led format
CEU - Continuing Education Units
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
CPD Credits / Hours: 5
Certificate No: A034393
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US $45
(per month)
12 months access to this course
Frequently Asked Questions
You can access the classes through the VirtualSpeech website, on any standard web browser such as Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.
The practice exercises can be completed online or in virtual reality (if you have a VR headset).
When you enroll in the course, you'll get 24/7 access to the course (including tutorial videos, case studies, practice exercises, VR, and more) through the VirtualSpeech website and in VR.
Both the online classes and exercises run in your browser, no additional software or download is required.
If you have a VR headset, you can also access the practice exercises in VR. Here's a list of our recommended VR headsets.
The online exercises have been tested across multiple browsers and run smoothly on Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Edge.
We accept payment via Credit Card, Debit Card or PayPal directly through the VirtualSpeech site. If you'd like to pay with an Invoice or using another payment method, please contact us.
Yes you can. After pressing the 'Buy Now' button on this page, select the number of users (maximum is 25).
After the payment, you'll be made course admin and can add users to the course from the admin dashboard.
Yes, when you've completed this course, we'll send you a Certificate of Achievement, which you can share in the Certifications section of your LinkedIn profile, on printed resumes, CVs, or other documents.
If the course does not meet your expectations, you can get a full refund within 7 days of purchasing the course.