Leader Communication in a Cross Cultural & Changing World

ESSCA Online Campus Summer/Winter School is aimed at anyone who wants to:

• Discover a cross-cultural experience in group projects that prepare them to communicate successfully in an international world.
• Have coaching from teachers who will help guide them through challenges and identify opportunities for their future.
• Gain insights into certain subjects and explore their options before choosing a Master’s degree.
• Improve their postgraduate knowledge and apply this knowledge to their professional life.
• Acquire new skills rewarded with ECTS credits with a balance between theory and practice.

• First-year university (or similar) studies completed in any discipline.
• English proficiency: Conversational (level B2 Common European Framework: CEFR).

Discover and learn how to apply tools and methods to communicate effectively in an international context in various situations.

• You will learn about personal branding, create your own personal branding video, learn how to promote yourself/ your brand through an Elevator Pitch and how to grow your network.

• You will learn about best practice in employee engagement and how to inspire, motivate and retain talent.

• You will learn how to use ‘Cultural Intelligence’ (CQ) to identify and analyze cultural differences in-company, internationally and across generations.
• You will discover best practices and be able to apply tools and methods in creative ways to ensure understanding collaboration and productivity in your team and predict/prevent conflict.

• You will learn to analyze situations and use tools and methods to find creative, agile and responsible solutions in challenging situations.

• You will learn about Leadership responsibility to both employees and other stakeholders and be able to demonstrate that you are capable of creating action plans which balance the interests of a company’s many stakeholders, such as shareholders, senior management executives, customers, suppliers, financiers, the government and the community.

You will develop your Personal Brand and create a plan to build and expand your network. By exploring different concepts of leadership, you will take on diverse roles in various situations to, for example, promote a start-up or advise a company on how to avoid cultural conflict or how to manage working across generations.

You will:

• Develop managerial skills based on principles of responsibility.
• Demonstrate capacities of creative and critical thinking.
• Apply a global mindset to business, management and citizenship.

Based on a workshop approach, you will learn to adapt their communication to various situations and thus become a more impactful leader.

By the end of the course, you will be able to communicate responsibly at leadership level with impact and agility to different audiences and in different environments.

• Duration: 3 weeks
• Live online sessions: each week live sessions will be organised with the professor
• Autonomous work (with and without interaction with the professor): around 15 hours each week
• Minimum number of participants to open the course: 5 students

If you wish to transfer ESSCA Online Campus academic credit, obtain written approval from the dean or adviser at your home institution prior to your registration at ESSCA Online Campus. Such approval is for your protection only; it is not required by Summer/Winter School at ESSCA Online Campus, which cannot approve credits for transfer. We will provide transcript to have grades sent to your home institution.

• ID / Passport / Student ID
• English proficiency document signed by a professor (provided by ESSCA) or English test results (TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS, Duolingo)
• Diploma (graduate students)/ Unofficial transcript (undergraduate: junior & senior year)
• Most recent transcripts of records (and official translations to English or French)
• Letter(s) of recommendation (optional)
• CV / Resume (optional)