Thoughts on effectively beginning a presentation
How should I start my presentation?
Creating media stars
This course is designed to provide sportspeople with the necessary skills to excel in media interviews. It provides sportspeople with the skills to becoming a confident, engaging and marketable interviewee that the media wish to speak with. It also covers the skills required to handle challenging media situations and avoid publicity own goals.
What will you learn?
After completing this course you will be expert in...
Character
Consistently conveying your personal or team brand and values in media interviews, supporting your marketing efforts.
Content
Constructing concise, engaging and memorable interview answers on the spot, that will be quoted in articles across the media
Delivery
Delivering your answers in a confident and personable manner, increasing the likelihood of the media seeking you out for interviews.
This course can be tailored to ensure that participants convey the specific team or club messages / values that their employer wishes them to convey in media interviews.
This course includes a filmed element, allowing participants to practice and review their media interview performance, within a supportive environment.
Course Agenda
An introduction to the media and sport
- Goals and objectives - your goals AND the goals of your interviewer
- What makes a great interview, for you AND your interviewer?
- What makes a bad interview, for you AND your interviewer?
Crafting great interview responses
- The 5 questions that every interviewer will ask
- The 5 golden answers that achieve your goals
- 5 tricky questions, and the own goals to avoid
- 5 clever answers - the Jeremy Clarkson technique (!)
Delivering an effective interview
- An introduction to confident delivery
- Voice - using power, pace, pause and pitch on radio and TV
- Power quotes - how to make it memorable and get your key messages broadcast
- Character - how can your delivery reflect your unique character?
- Confidence - identifying, managing and using any nerves to your advantage.
Refining our performance
- Interviews will be completed and recorded throughout the day, and support our learning objectives (expect easy, unusual and tricky questions!)
- The recordings will be reviewed one-to-one with your trainer and recommendations given to help refine your performance
- Time allowing, you will have multiple opportunities to perform live and review your performance.
Discover more about your public speaking trainer
Rich Watts is a pretty average sportsperson (Hockey and Triathlon), but (luckily) is a champion public speaking consultant and trainer, a past winner of the UK Business Speaker of the Year, a JCI UK Public Speaking Champion and most importantly, loves helping others to develop into outstanding public speakers.
What is included as part of this course?
An initial scoping meeting to understand your requirements
We will meet you either online or in person to fully understand the goals that you need to achieve through presentations and public speaking. We will listen, ask questions and share ideas to ensure that we can produce the ideal presentation skills training solution for your business.
Course content tailored specifically to your team
All of our courses are tailored to the individuals involved within each session. The content and examples used will vary depending on the existing skill level and confidence of each participant. We will even contact all participants before the session to understand their ambitions and any particular areas that they would like us to focus on.
Workbooks and access to exclusive support content for all attendees
All attendees will be provided with a unique workbook during the session. Afterwards they will have access to all recordings from the training, as well as a library of Rich Public Speaking resources to use as they practice their public speaking throughout the year.
An online follow-up session after the training
All attendees will be entitled to an hour-long follow up session after the training. This is their opportunity to report back on progress, ask questions and receive additional feedback and training now that they have had the chance to practice what they have learned!
A specialised training venue
Some organisations prefer that the training is delivered offsite in a centralised or specialist training venue. We have access to a network of suitable sites across the country and can provide a venue to suit your specific needs. Some organisations have even asked us to create multi-day team training sessions, with over night stays and evening entertainment!
