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  • Account management
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  • Productivity
  • Writing
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Training for in-house communications professionals

  • Best practice
  • Demonstrating value
  • Brand recognition
  • Confidence & Credibility
  • Media training

Kickstart Your PR!

Two-day intensive public relations workshop

  • Capturing media attention
  • Brand recognition
  • Engaging content
  • Supporting sales and marketing

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Mental health and wellness for communications professionals

  • Beating Burnout
  • mindfulness
  • Work-Life Balance
  • Mental Health in the Workplace

Kickstart Your PR!

Two-day intensive public relations workshop

  • Capturing media attention
  • Brand recognition
  • Engaging content
  • Supporting sales and marketing

Refresh your press release writing skills

Be more successful at getting your stories published

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Training Overview

Put aside what you're doing now and take a fresh view at press releases. Write more newsworthy headlines and opening paragraphs. Replace clichéd quotes with valuable commentary. And be more successful at getting your stories published.

Whether you've been writing press releases for months, years or decades, you've probably been pressurised into sending out a story you suspect isn't newsworthy. You might also have written umpteen "We're delighted..." quotes and been guilty of calling something "innovative", "pioneering" or "iconic" when it was simply mediocre.

This practical half-day workshop reconsiders your current approach to press releases. It helps you find more newsworthy angles to less newsworthy stories - and avoid the type of language that leaves the media confused, bored or irritated.

How will I benefit?

You'll discover why the media aren't running your stories and what you need to do to get their interest. You'll tighten up those headlines, sharpen up those opening paragraphs and write quotes journalists want to use. And you'll learn how to persuade others in your organisation to provide you with newsworthy material in the first place.

What will I learn?

  • How to find newsworthy angles to less newsworthy stories
  • How to structure your release around the 'who, what, where, when, why and how' questions
  • How to write a headline and opening paragraph the media wants to use
  • How to avoid cliched and write quotes like a journalist

Who should attend?

This course is perfect for anyone looking to improve or refresh their press release writing skills.

What else do I need to know?

You'll be working right from the start, analysing press releases and determining what makes them good or bad. You'll do writing exercises and receive feedback so you can improve further. You'll need to bring a couple of examples of previous successful and not-so-successful releases plus an idea for a new release to work on during the session.

Sounds good! How do I book?

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Be credible and effective when presenting and persuading

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Stop stress from dragging you down

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Incorporate great management techniques into your daily life

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Say what you mean, professionally and directly

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Where do you start when it all goes wrong?

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Grammatical errors and how to avoid them

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in the Office

Make good working relationships great

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Influencing and Persuading

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in the Office

Get the best out of your team

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in the Office

How to write almost anything

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Cultivate good mental health

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Create greater mental wellbeing in your team

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Mindfulness in the Workplace
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Keeping your focus in times of chaos

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in the Office

Power up your ideas and boost your inventiveness

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Make every presentation more engaging and effective

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The seven steps to successful editing

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with the Media

Be more successful at getting your stories published

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with the Media

Get more of your stories published

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With the Media

How to Make Social Media Communications Shine

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with the Media

Take your writing to a higher level

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Supervising First Aid for Mental Health
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FAA Level 3 Award, Regulated Qualifications Framework

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Time Management
in the Office

Manage your workload and get tasks completed on time

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Writing compelling content for the media
with the Media

Make your writing effective, engaging and shareable

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Writing effective news releases
with the Media

Get more stories published

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The complete guide to online writing

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