The Future-Ready Manager: Mastering Leadership Communication in the AI Era

Programme outline

Learning objectives and structure
  • Master human-centric communication with artificial intelligence (AI) insights
    • Strengthen empathy, active listening, and emotional intelligence while leveraging AI to analyse stakeholders, predict needs, and tailor messages for maximum impact.
  • Deliver high-impact presentations and feedback with AI
    • Craft compelling stories, persuasive hooks, and structured feedback using AI co-creation, then refine delivery with real-time AI analysis of tone, body language, and clarity.
  • Coach and influence with confidence using AI simulations
    • Generate powerful coaching questions, practice radical candour feedback, and simulate tough conversations with AI before facing real-world scenarios.
  • Navigate power dynamics and negotiations with AI assistance
    • Draft influential messages, anticipate objections, and role-play win-win negotiations using AI-generated scripts and counterarguments.
  • Become an AI-augmented leader:
    • Leave with a personalised AI toolkit to enhance daily coaching, feedback, and influence
    • Bridging human intuition with AO efficiency for smarter, faster leadership decisions.
Day 1
  • Warm welcome and ice breaker
  • Breaking psychological barriers – science-based techniques to overcome imposter syndrome, perfectionism, fear of judgement – use AI stimulates harsh audience reaction, reframe as learning opportunities
  • Stakeholder analysis and mapping with AI – identify stakeholders, their biases and communication style – use AI-generated personas and sentiment analysis of past emails/meetings
  • Empathy-driven communication – practice active listening, decoding emotional cues and building trust – use AI stimulation to role play emotionally charged conversations
  • Power signals: verbal and non-verbal mastery with AI feedback – role play to practice on tone, gestures and congruence
  • Storytelling for leadership – craft narratives using various communication structure and message framing techniques – use AI to create storyboards, in-class role play for real-time coaching and feedback
  • Executive briefing 2.0: AI-optimised hooks, slides and engagement – use AI for slide critique and in classroom group presentation
  • The boardroom challenge – deliver a high-stakes pitch and presentation to an AI board that adapts different communication styles and personas
  • Wrap up Q&A
Day 2
  • Radical candour feedback framework and AI feedback – practice giving feedback using the SBI model, use AI to create scenarios and scripts, in-class role play for real-time coaching feedback
  • Stimulate coaching conversations (grow model) with AI-generated employee personas – in-class role play to receive real-time coaching feedback
  • Managing up and influence without authority – understand power dynamics, manage expectations and align goals – use AI to draft stakeholder messages and anticipate possible objections or responses
  • Delivering critical feedback with clarity, empathy and confidence – balance directness and care – use AI to give tone analysis and rewrite suggestions, in-class role play to receive real-time coaching feedback
  • Negotiation and assertive communication – use AI to generate negotiation scripts and counter arguments, divide groups to stimulate real-time negotiation practice
  • AI stimulation lab – your toughest conversation yet – participants run high-stakes scenarios using AI as rehearsal partner and human coach feedback – use AI to stimulate different approaches and record final version/present final version
  • Wrap up Q&A
Assessment
  • Online quiz and group presentation

 

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