MGMT 253Leadership Communication
Management · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Formerly numbered 425.) Study centers on communicative dimensions of leadership, executive presence, and persuasion. Frameworks allow for emerging and current leaders to excel in presenting sticky messages to investors, executives, boards, clients, and others. Hands-on nature of course allows for considerable communication practice. Student presentations are videotaped and analyzed. Topics include communicating with executive presence, strategic networking, designing compelling visuals, engaging with data, making complex (and technical) information understandable, overcoming message resistance, and creating clear and concise messages. Also covered are question and answer methods, leadership storytelling, and ways to grab and keep attention. Examination of delivery variables such as verbal and non-verbal communication. Message topics can be generated from student needs (e.g., venture capital investors pitch, senior executives or client presentation).
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.