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Strategic Communication and Organisational Influence in Digital and AI-Enabled Environments

Overview

Part of Graduate Certificate in Talent Leadership, Management and Communication
Duration 6 days
Course Time 9.00AM - 5.30PM
Enquiry Please email ask-iss@nus.edu.sg for more details.

Managers operating in digital and AI-enabled organisations must make sense of complex situations, exercise judgement under uncertainty and mobilise stakeholders across functions and hierarchies. They are often expected to act without complete information or formal authority, while navigating competing priorities, organisational constraints, data-driven recommendations and AI-supported decisions.

This course equips managers to interpret fragmented technical, organisational and environmental signals, frame complex problems and develop coherent narratives that support leadership decision-making. Participants examine how to clarify decision authority, apply appropriate decision logic and use data and AI responsibly without displacing human judgement or accountability.

The course also develops managers’ ability to build credibility, influence without formal authority and navigate high-stakes situations involving conflict, negotiation, crisis and organisational transformation. Participants design practical approaches for managing stakeholder motivations, power dynamics and interdependencies, enabling them to orchestrate collaboration and achieve shared outcomes across organisational boundaries.

Key Takeaways

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Synthesise complex technical, organisational, and environmental signals to frame problems, evaluate options and trade-offs, and form coherent narratives that guide leadership decision-making.
  • Analyse decision contexts in complex organisations to act effectively within constraints by clarifying decision authority, decision logic, and the appropriate use of data and AI.
  • Develop influence without formal authority by leveraging credibility, trust, timing, and informal networks to shape decisions across functions and hierarchies.
  • Apply communication strategies in high-stakes leadership situations, including conflict, negotiation, crisis, and transformation, by considering power dynamics, risk, and organisational context.
  • Design and integrate cross-boundary collaboration approaches by analysing stakeholder motivations, constraints, and interdependencies to achieve shared outcomes.



Who Should Attend

This course is suitable for managers who need to shape decisions, influence stakeholders and coordinate work across functions and organisational boundaries. It is particularly relevant for those operating without full authority or information and managing complex decisions, competing priorities, conflict, negotiation, change or crisis.




What Will Be Covered

  • Sense-making and strategic problem framing
  • Decision-making, judgement and the responsible use of data and AI
  • Influence without formal authority
  • Communication in conflict, negotiation, change and crisis
  • Stakeholder alignment and cross-boundary collaboration
  • Coordinating shared outcomes across complex organisational systems



Certificate

Certificate of Completion
Participants have to meet a minimum attendance rate of 75% and are required to pass the assessment to be issued a Certificate of Completion.



Preparing for Your Course

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WIFI Access

WIFI access will be made available to participants.

Venue

NUS-ISS
25 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119615

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In the event of a change of venue, participants are advised to refer to the acceptance email sent one week prior to the commencement date.

Course Confirmation

All classes are subject to confirmation and NUS-ISS will send an acceptance email to participants one week prior to the commencement date. Confirmed registrants are to attend and complete all lectures, class exercises, workshops and assessments (where applicable). Additionally, all responses to feedbacks and surveys conducted by NUS-ISS and its partners must be submitted. All training and assessments will be delivered as described in the course webpage.

General Enquiry

Please feel free to write to ask-iss@nus.edu.sg if you have any enquiry or feedback.




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