Management Communication and Leadership Concentration for Communication, MS

About the Concentration

In the Management Communcation and Leadership Concentraton, students will identify communication strategies when the stakes are high and learn how to increase team productivity through communication. Students will develop data-fueled communication strategies and manage the challenges that occur naturally throughout conflicts, negotiations, and change. By the end of the program, students will understand how to:

• Identify relevant theories and principles of leadership, organizational communication, and data-informed communications planning.
• Understand how communication can increase team productivity.
• Develop comprehensive internal and external communications plans.
• Construct a communications plan to achieve a leadership position in a marketplace.
• Advise peers and colleagues as they work through their own communication challenges.
• Identify communication strategies to communicate with executives when stakes are high and explain the role of leadership and culture in global strategic communication.

Required Courses (9 credits)