BSLL 3130 - Effective Communication
Noncredit
Delivery/Location: Brighton
Effective Communication will introduce communication as a leadership competency to those wanting to embrace and cultivate a climate of effective communication through leadership. In addition, participants will learn the necessary skills required to develop their communication skills as a leader and utilize that effective communication when interacting with others.
Topics of discussion will include how to develop listening and responding skills, how to communicate organizational vision, and how to effectively communicate feedback to others. Communication dynamics will be examined as well as the relationship between communication and organizational effectiveness.
Noncredit courses do not produce academic credit nor appear on a Colorado State University academic transcript.
Instructors
Michael Leonard currently facilitates workshops for Fortune 500 and other organizations, and has been teaching at the university level since 2002. He specializes in leader/manager training, communication, and marketing. He serves as an executive professor of marketing at the University of Northern Colorado’s Monfort College of Business – the first and only business school to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award from the Office of the President of the United States. His responsibilities include teaching marketing and communication courses and directing the college’s integrated marketing initiatives. He is also a consultant and facilitator for ConceptReserve LLC, a firm that specializes in manager transition and employee engagement training.
Previously, he worked in management, marketing, and public relations positions as an entrepreneur in Chicago, for an Internet company in New York City, and for a religious organization in New York City. Michael holds a Juris Doctor and a Bachelor’s degree in Communications/Public Relations from Brigham Young University.
