Framing Your Communication to Inspire and Convince (edX)

Your sensemaking mindset is of critical importance in motivating others to follow and support you. Your communication ability to inspire and convince is largely dependent on the way you frame your message, and on your skills at playing the game of framing and reframing. You will learn from a large variety of (video) cases and analyze a large number of situations where leaders' communication and sensemaking skills are tested and probed.

The course is designed so that you are introduced to communication by reviewing public figures and politicians to bring awareness to communication techniques. Then you will see the same techniques being utilized with public figures in the engineering field. This enables you to visualize how to best utilize these communication techniques in your career successfully.

Upon completion of this course you will be introduced to the sensemaking mindset, and will have learned how to use framing essentials, debating methods and pitching methods, in order to frame your communication to your team and supervisor. This will ensure that you are equipped to build winning coalitions in your own organization.

This course is part of the Leadership Essentials for Engineers Professional Certificate Program.

What you'll learn

- How to apply a sensemaking mindset to derive a concise message from a complex situation

- How to use pitching methods, debating methods, and framing and reframing effectively to achieve your goals

- How to frame your ideas and plans to gain support from senior management and your teams