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About the Course

An ambitious vision for the future of your organisation isn’t enough – how do you communicate this vision to get your colleagues on board? The ability to effectively communicate and persuade others is a key leadership skill. Traditional and common-sense models of communication and persuasion often fail to capture the complex nature of ‘influencing’. Via structured learning activities (video lectures, quizzes, discussion prompts and written assessments) this course will develop your capacity to communicate appropriately in different situational and cultural contexts, making you a highly influential leader....

Top reviews

SP

Jan 22, 2021

I have really enjoyed learning this course, and professors made it so easy for me to understand the concept. As I was proceeding with the course, I applied some of the ideas and guess what? It worked

AA

Jul 12, 2020

It's a course that sum up the most important skills you need to learn for your professional life. Amazing material and subject conducted in a very fun and appealing way. Thanks for both instructors.

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By Rachel F

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Oct 7, 2022

I thoroughly enjoyed this course and have learnt so many useful and practical tips and tricks that I have already started using daily! Thank you for curating and crafting such great content!

By Mark L

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May 17, 2020

This is the best course as part of the specialisation series that I did! I really enjoyed the way both Lawrence and Arabella conducted the course. The exercises and examples are very helpful.

By Avinash K

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Aug 24, 2023

This course is very much detailed in terms of communication, presentation style, emotional intelligence and speakers of the course very very effective in what they are trying to communicate.

By Edina G

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May 13, 2023

I usually get bored watching video after video...but not with this course; it was truly entertaining and informative. A lot of useful tips and advice are shared here. I highly recommend it!

By Theresia K

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Jul 27, 2020

Excellent course! Absolutely great content, lots of examples and further resources. I really enjoyed this course with th two course leaders, Arabella MacPherson and Lawrence Ang. Thank you!

By Melanie E

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Aug 23, 2024

Thank you both so much for your very well structured course packed with relevant information! I especially enjoyed your passion for the topic and your way of explaning everything clearly.

By Jose A Z

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Feb 1, 2021

Excellent training!! it helps a lot to understand how to structure a message and connect with an audience I need a lot of practice but now I have a solid base to start developing a story.

By Shein A

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Aug 9, 2021

This is by far the most engaging and interesting Coursera course I've ever took. It's absolutely worth spending your time. The auxiliary materials are brilliant as well as main lectures.

By Hannah G H

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Apr 11, 2022

Practical and extremely helpful course on communication - highly reccommend! Easily the most useful communication course I've ever taken. Thoroughly enjoyed this learning experience.

By Óscar D V

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Jul 13, 2020

At first I was a little confused about how to integrate storytellying to presentations and communication habilities, but after the course it makes a lot of sense to pull them together.

By Amira I

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Nov 16, 2020

I found this course is very fascinating and fun. I love all the techniques and how they give tips to apply in our daily life. I strongly recommend you to join this informative course!

By Bruno G

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Apr 11, 2020

Great material (a LOT of it) with two very enthusiastic and energetic coaches to guide us through, which made the journey an exciting one. Time to put all to practice now. Thank you !

By Fatih A

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Sep 21, 2022

It was well structured course with actionable tips. It was good to see some of the techniques I learnt to manage the change resistance are useful for the influencing others as well.

By Alan K

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Apr 5, 2020

This course covered what is needed to make a great presentation, tell a compelling interesting story and also covered a good review of the sales skills everyone needs and much more.

By Rosa D P G

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Nov 1, 2020

An incredible course with amazing teachers. I encourage everyone to take this course! It's important to have the keys to a great storytelling and influencing through persuasion.

By Sandra D

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Apr 21, 2020

I liked the course a lot, especially when Bella brought up examples from her Practice. It was a very fun and entertaining course and learning a lot on the latter…. Thank you :-)

By Amit K

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Oct 9, 2020

Awesome. Both the tutors were amazing and skilled. The content is very good.

Being a storyteller and learning. It is one of the best courses I have attended.

Thanks, Amit Khanna

By Lala H

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Aug 10, 2020

Very interesting and full of interesting tips. Highly recommended especially for the sales professionals and for the rest people who are frequently presenting sth to others.

By JoAnne D

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May 25, 2020

I have taken other courses on speaking and found this to be a helpful supplement to what I've already learned. I think speakers at all levels could benefit from this course.

By Nicole A G

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Apr 17, 2020

One of the best courses in communications. It can be taken by students and professionals! The cases were very helpful. The readings and other related videos were very good!

By Aybala S

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Jan 23, 2024

Great course covering communication styles based on Global authorities and techniques. It contains useful resources and offers simple content suitable for daily follow-up.

By Magdalena O

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Mar 27, 2024

This is one of the best courses that I have done here, love the examples and the enthusiasm of the experts. Truly enjoyed going through these topics, highly recommend it!

By Dinesh K R C

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May 14, 2020

One of the courses that put me on toes to read, watch, evaluate, think, reinforce, work and make me realise that I can be far more than that I can be. Highly recommended.

By Ramesh K

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Jan 27, 2021

Great content and superb explanation by the tutors. Leant many new techniques and concepts

will try to apply these in daily life. Thanks for sharing such great knowledge

By Ä°REM B

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Jun 3, 2020

It was a very useful and nice course. Actually, it was really useful for me to learn the strategies that I observed in general but I did not know that it was so useful.