Communication and leadership skills are force magnifiers for any field. With emotional intelligence and collaboration, you can lead diverse and dispersed workforces, leverage communication modalities, and showcase your management abilities.

About

CRAIG HARRISON, B.A., is a professional speaker, trainer, consultant, and coach. As founder of Expressions of Excellence!™ he has conducted training for Fortune 500 companies since 1997 and has taught for UCSC Extension since 2001. Harrison is a past president of the National Speakers Association—Northern California and founder of its Speakers Academy. He speaks, trains, and writes prolifically on communication, leadership, customer experience, and excellence. Harrison is also a senior associate with TheConsultingTeam.com of Mountain View and serves on the board of the Bay Area Consultants Network. He formerly served on the UCSC Extension Business Administration Advisory Board. A proud Banana Slug, Harrison is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz (Oakes College).

Craig Harrison's courses currently open for enrollment

Business Communications

BUSM.X404
$700
Craig Harrison
Feb. 2 - Mar. 16, Tuesday, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
  • Live-Online Attend via Zoom at scheduled times.
BUSM.X404.(19)
Schedule
Date Start Time End Time Meeting Type Location
Tue, 02-02-2027 6:00pm 9:00pm Live-Online REMOTE
Tue, 02-09-2027 6:00pm 9:00pm Live-Online REMOTE
Tue, 02-16-2027 6:00pm 9:00pm Live-Online REMOTE
Tue, 02-23-2027 6:00pm 9:00pm Live-Online REMOTE
Tue, 03-02-2027 6:00pm 9:00pm Live-Online REMOTE
Tue, 03-09-2027 6:00pm 9:00pm Live-Online REMOTE
Tue, 03-16-2027 6:00pm 9:00pm Live-Online REMOTE
 

This class is offered in an online synchronous format. Students are expected to log into this course via Canvas at the start time of scheduled meetings and participate via Zoom, for the duration of each scheduled class meeting.

To see all meeting dates, click “Full Schedule” below.

You will be granted access in Canvas to your course site and course materials approximately 24 hours prior to the published start date of the course.
 

Required Tools & Materials: None.  Required readings for this course include a series of published articles (by the instructor and others) who are experts in communication, leadership, linguistics, etc. Sources include Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. (All reading materials will be made available to students to read or download.)

Professional Credit:

HRCI(R)---PHR(R), SPHR(R) and GPHR(R) general recertification credit: 19.25 hours.

SHRM-CP(R) or SHRM-SCP(R) 19.25 PDCs.

Associated Program(s)
Administrative Professionals
Business Administration
Human Resource Management