Effective Communication
Effective Communication
Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Master's degree programme in Finance
Master's degree programme in Innovative Finance
Course
Project Description
This course develops the communication skills required to convey complex financial and business content persuasively across a range of professional situations. The focus is on high-stakes spoken and written communication: students learn to pitch financial ideas, present to decision-makers, navigate business conversations, and adapt their message to different audiences and contexts. Cultural diversity is treated as one key dimension of audience-awareness in international finance, an integrated feature of professional communication practice. AI tools support preparation, rehearsal, and reflection throughout the course.
Key topics covered are:
Key topics covered are:
- Pitching financial ideas — structure, delivery, and impact
- Presentation skills for finance and business contexts
- Persuasion and argumentation in professional settings
- Business conversation formats: interviews, client meetings, negotiations
- Audience analysis and communication adaptation
- Intercultural dimensions of finance communication
- Language development
- Self-awareness and self-reflection
Teaching Method
- Interactive seminar combining short inputs with structured exercises on finance communication
- Live pitches delivered across multiple sessions, with rotating audiences and cultural framings
- Written analysis based on finance dialogues from authentic professional settings
- AI tools used as deliberate training partners for pitch rehearsal and feedback
- Peer feedback as a non-graded learning format; assessment remains fully individual
- Activation techniques used to support engagement in plenary phases
Learning Results
After successful completion of the course, students will
Professional competence
Professional competence
- deliver structured, persuasive pitches on financial topics to diverse audiences.
- apply effective presentation techniques in finance and business contexts.
- analyse and adapt communication style to different professional situations and audience types.
- conduct business conversations — including interviews, client meetings, and negotiations — with clarity and con-fidence.
- develop and refine argument structures for persuasive business communication.
- apply audience analysis frameworks, including intercultural dimensions, to communication tasks.
- use AI tools to prepare, rehearse, and reflect on spoken and written communication.
- navigate communication in internationally diverse finance and business environments.
- engage diverse audiences with audience-appropriate language and framing.
- use self-reflection to identify and develop individual communication strengths.
- build confidence and presence in high-stakes communication situations.
Assessment Methods
Individual live pitch on an assigned finance topic and audience (40%); Individual written pitch rationale with audience analysis (30%); Individual written dialogue analysis in a finance context, closed-book (30%); Attendance is mandatory (80%)