MEDIA INTERVIEW PREPARATION

  • Development of Key Message Points
  • Creation of Your Primary Overriding Communications Objective
  • Delivering Your Message Despite the Questions Being Asked
  • Keeping the Audience on Your Side
  • Understanding the Journalists’ Perspective and Agenda
  • Turning Negative Questions into Positive Answers
  • Handling Loaded Questions and Ambushes
  • Planning and Conducting Press Conferences
  • Learning to Speak in Human Terms
  • Maintaining Control
  • What to Wear

 

CREATING A CORPORATE MEDIA CRISIS PLAN

  • Creating Generic Communications Objectives
  • Creating “Human Term” Based Discussion Points
  • Determining Your Crisis Team and Spokesperson
  • Developing Step by Step Plan For a Public Image Crisis
  • Implementing the Plan
  • Who to Call and When
  • Questions that Must Not be Publicly Answered Immediately
  • How to Deflect Problematic Issues Without Appearing Evasive
  • Planning and Conducting Press Conferences
  • Becoming the Trusted Source of Information

 

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