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
Content
Delivery
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 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 else is included within the Media Skills training?
Pre-session research with all participants
Ahead of developing your session, together we will complete a full research project to understand the needs, confidence and existing skills of all of your learners. Using online surveys, interviews and more we will get a full picture of the challenge and the goal.
Tailoring all course content to your goals
The research phase informs us about exactly the topics and techniques that our learners require. We then create unique training content and activities to help them develop these skills in the most engaging way. Every session that is developed will be packed full of examples, lessons and activities that are relevant to your sector and business.
Follow-up coaching for everyone
Learners always finish a training sessions engaged and inspired by session, but it’s easy to let new learnings slip once they are back at their desks. With this in mind, every participant is offered a 30 minute one-to-one presentation skills coaching session in the weeks and months that follow the initial training. This follow-up helps everyone to embed their new skills, ask questions and refine their technique after using their new learnings in the ‘real world’.
Video analysis of all participants
Everyone that takes part in a Rich Public Speaking training course is filmed delivering at least one presentation or speech. On the day they will receive feedback from their peers. After the session, they will receive feedback directly from Rich and a copy of their video. This feedback, and viewing themselves speak on camera is the most effective way to develop their presentation skills.
Access to a full library of resources and support
All learners will have access to all of the materials, worksheets and content from our sessions within the Rich Public Speaking online library. On top of this, they will also be able to export and download further infographics, videos and articles on all areas of public speaking everything from Persuasive Presentations to crafting Super Soundbites, and lots in-between!
Monthly learning emails
For those learners that like to read, absorb and consider ideas via their inbox, all participants receive a series of monthly emails after the course. Each email focuses on a. Different technique that we discovered during the initial session. The email provides a timely reminder about the topic, motivation to use it in practice and guidance on how use the technique effectively.
