Public Relations Management

Description

By attending this course, you will creatively explore practical skills and the commercial acuity required to manage the image and reputation of organizations and brands. By contextualizing PR and communication theory, it will create a vast range of options in how you can revolutionize media strategy, bond with affinity groups and manage content.

The course will also include a site visit to an organization relevant to the course so delegates can develop an understanding of how their contemporaries function in the real-world.

The course will wrap with a summary of the key learning points, followed by an action planning exercise with a view to apply the acquired knowledge and skills immediately upon your return to work. Post-course support is also available in relation to the implementation of your action plan, up to six (6) months following course completion.

What you will learn

Managing PR Communications

• Origin of Public Relations
• Internal and External Communications
• Relationship Management
• Understanding Channels of PR

Media Relations and Press Strategy

• Best Practice of PR
• Dealing with Media. Editors, Opinion Holders and Journalists
• Media Relations and Interview Techniques
• Finding the PR Opportunities

Corporate Reputation and Stakeholder Engagement

• Building a Reputation
• Measuring Stakeholder Perceptions
• Attitudinal Analysis Encouraging Receptivity
• Excelling Corporate Image

Site visit

• Industrial visit to a relevant organization.
• An insight into the internal working of companies.
• An opportunity to learn through interaction with practising professionals.

Course Review

• Summary and recap of key learning objectives
• Action Planning