Dealing with a hostile audience
| DURATION |
1 day |
| DELEGATES |
4 people |
| OVERVIEW |
A workshop with plenty of hands-on experience and exercises covering:
• A hostile audience and the hostile situation
• Presentation role play and how to deal with it
• Introduction to the media
• Understanding the opportunity
• Conveying key messages
• Interview preparation and practice - radio and TV
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| AIMS |
The principal aim of this course is to equip you with the skills and confidence
to handle an audience and the media in a potentially hostile situation. You will
gain valuable insights from media and presentation professionals into
audience and media expectations and will be given a framework for planning
and preparing. You will gain practical experience of dealing with a hostile
situation using real material or relevant scenarios. Presentations and
interviews are videoed and delegates will receive immediate constructive
critical feedback on content and presentation. |
| PROGRAMME |
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| 9.30am |
Welcome, introductions and outline of the day
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| 9.45am |
What is a hostile audience?
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| 10.15am |
Presentation skills training
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| 10.45am |
Refreshments
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| 11.00am |
Presentations and role play
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| 11.45am |
Feedback and review
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| 12.30pm |
Introduction to the media
• What are journalists looking for and why?
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| 1.00pm |
Lunch
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| 1.30pm |
Interview preparation
• Understanding the opportunity
• Key messages
• Differences between print and broadcast media
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| 2.00pm |
Interview 1 – radio
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| 2.45pm |
Playback and feedback
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| 3.00pm |
Refreshments
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| 3.15pm |
Interview 2 – TV |
| 4.00pm |
Playback and feedback
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| 4.30pm |
Questions and close
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Sample course programme. Timings are approximate |