Fundamentals and Strategies of Success in Public Relations Management
ICTD International Centre for Training and Development
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Who should attend
This training program was designed for the benefit of:
- PR Directors
- PR Managers
- Marketing Directors
- Marketing Managers
- Company Directors
- Those in PR in public sector, private sector and not-for-profit organizations
- Those in PR at the national, regional and community level
- Those working for international, global or supranational organizations
- Advisors at Ministerial level in government departments
- Advisors to Directors and top Managers in other organizations
- Owners or account directors in public relations consultancies
About the course
This training course in PR Management has been designed to help delegates improve their strategic thinking when designing a PR campaign. The training provides them a comprehensive overview of the most effective Public Relations Management tactics that can make a difference in their organizations branding, corporate communications and media relations.
## Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this training series, participants will have learnt how to:
- Lead and project manage a successful PR campaign
- Apply the most up-to-date PR techniques, methodologies, tools
- Identify and capitalize on PR opportunities,
- Overcome the challenges and minimize risks
- Maximize the Return on Investment (ROI)
## Course Outline
What you are promoting?
- PR to promote organization’s vision, mission and strategy
- Benefits of products and services
- Target messages for specific audiences, stakeholders and markets
- Objective measures of success: KPIs
- Return on Investment: ROI
Social media and multi-media
- Understanding the scope, power and immediacy of these media
- Monitoring what is said, where and by whom
- Responding to negative feedback positively
- Pro-actively participating in social and multi-media
- Dos and don’ts
Five steps for a successful PR plan
- Agree your objectives, set targets and quantify results
- Appropriate channels, methods and mix
- Maximize budget and resources
- Recruit and manage your PR team: internal and external
- Effective project management of the implementation
Media relations
- What do you want from editors, journalists and their media?
- What do they need from you?
- Understand the pressures and deadlines they are under
- Work together to build long-term durable relationships
- Ten top tips for developing lasting relationships
Press conferences and interviews
- Managing press conferences and dealing with journalists’ enquiries
- Giving winning television interviews
- Radio interviews with impact
- Handle difficult questions on the telephone
- Avoid the 5 most common mistakes
Planning a successful PR campaign
- Agree strategic objectives globally, nationally, regionally, locally
- Appropriate communication for each market, stakeholder and audience
- Objectives measures of success and desired outcomes
- Project management of implementation of plan
- Anticipate and prevent problems
Advising and developing senior people
- Advising politicians, senior civil servants, directors and managers
- Give winning presentations
- Public relations challenges as opportunities
- Harnessing creative conflict into productive output
- Budgeting and resource management
Building a reputation
- Clarify the key elements which comprise reputation
- Strategy to maintain a long-term reputation
- Minimize threats to reputation
- Defend reputation when under attack
- Rebuild reputation after it has been undermined or discredited
Issues and Crisis Management
- Anticipate sources of crises and mitigate risks
- Appoint crisis leaders and teams and allocate resources
- Create crisis plans for key eventualities
- Practice crisis plans regularly
- Case studies of impact on organizations of good and poor PR crisis management
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