Three ways to capture a crowd – useful techniques to engage your audience
It’s a tough challenge and it’s getting tougher – how do you capture the attention of your audience during a presentation or media interview and retain it? Our attention spans are notoriously becoming shorter than [...]
Media training courses: the difference between a press and a broadcast interview?
During our media training courses people often ask: “What’s the difference between a press and a broadcast media interview?” Well, the chances are that even these days you’re more likely to do a print interview [...]
Six barriers to effective communication
Essentially what we do as a company is to help our clients to communicate more effectively with the people they need to talk to. This is often with journalists in our media training courses and [...]
How to handle journalists’ interruptions
It’s long been a complaint of politicians and other spokespeople that they’ve just started to answer a question during a media interview when the interviewer jumps in with an objection or another question. People often [...]
Your spokespeople aren’t getting enough media coverage? Here’s why and how to fix it
Very often when we start one of our media training courses the PR professionals and Comms people that we work with mention that as well as handling difficult issues, on the proactive side, they’ve been [...]
Media training: five requests you can make of a journalist
[vc_row row_padding_top="26" row_padding_bottom="9"][vc_column][md_text md_text_title1="pixflow_base64IA==" md_text_title_separator="no"]Being interviewed by a journalist can often be quite an intimidating experience. As many of the participants in our media training courses point out – even before we’ve had the chance to [...]