The Skills Minister shows what not to do if you’re asked a question you don’t know the answer to
You’re doing a live broadcast interview and the presenter asks you a question that you don’t have the answer to. What do you do? This is one of the issues that we explore in our [...]
How not to sound like a Politician
It’s something that we hear regularly during our media training courses. “I don’t want to sound like a politician,” participants tell us. We can completely understand this, mainly since respect for our political leaders reaches [...]
The joint MD of DLA Piper talks powerfully about social exclusion and provides useful insights for media interviews
We provide media training for a large number of law firms ranging from members of the magic circle to smaller, specialist organisations. That is why we’re always interested in media interviews with lawyers. During our [...]
Media training lessons from Kay Burley’s scrap with Matt Hancock over Tony Abbott
She’s known as one of TV’s toughest interviewers and Kay Burley is often cited in our media training courses as someone that participants would find it hard to face, especially in a crisis situation. Last [...]
Six tips to help lawyers to be better panellists
Every good conference these days need a panel discussion. One of the additional skills that we often look at during our media training courses for lawyers is how they can perform better during a panel [...]
Why more organisations should be asking us about crisis communications training.
If you’ve got children going through A-levels and GCSEs at this time, then you don’t need me to tell you how much more stressful the experience has been this year than most. Naturally, questions are [...]