by leah@firetap.co.uk | Nov 9, 2020 | Media Training
There’s nothing the media likes more than a good row. As we explain during our media training courses, confrontation, trouble, and argument is meat and drink to the media. And, when it relates directly to the public on a very human level, that debate is more...
by leah@firetap.co.uk | Oct 29, 2020 | Media Training
When we start our media training courses by asking our participants what they want to learn, one of the most common requests we hear concerns disfluencies. “I want to stop ‘erming’ and ‘ahing’,” participants frequently tell us. Similarly, when we listen back to a...
by leah@firetap.co.uk | Sep 29, 2020 | Media Training
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 media training courses, in particular when we’re helping participants to develop...
by leah@firetap.co.uk | Sep 25, 2020 | Media Training
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 new lows and more and more people...
by leah@firetap.co.uk | Aug 25, 2020 | Media Training
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 discussion. Conference organisers like having lawyers on their...
