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Public Relations School

About

The success of your organization, cause, or candidate depends on how well your message is communicated by the media. The words you use matter.


Attend Leadership Institute's Public Relations School and discover how to expand your message into a media strategy for positive coverage.


Who should attend the Public Relations School:

  • Press Assistants
  • Media relations professionals
  • External relations/outreach professionals
  • Anyone engaged with media or the public on behalf of a candidate, elected official, or organization


How you will benefit:

  • Develop the right message for your target audience
  • Use social media to spread that message
  • Build valuable relationships with the media
  • Communicate effectively through writing, speaking, and interpersonal skills


What to expect: In this full-day school, you will hear from several public relations experts on topics like strategy, journalist relations, crisis communications, campaigns, press releases, and social media.

Agenda

Welcome

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Lecture – Introduction to PR Strategy

·      What can PR do for you?

·      Understanding the media

·      What makes news

·      Ethics in PR

 

Lecture – Coalitions

·      Pros and Cons of working with coalitions

·      Identifying and recruiting potential allies

·      Coalition tactics to advance your cause

 

Lecture – Media Relations in PR

·      What journalists want/need from you

·      Building your rapport with journalists

·      How to pitch stories most effectively

 

Break: 15 Minutes


Lecture – Social Media in PR

·      Message development

·      How to best engage

·      How to present/tease longer-term content

 

Lecture – Crisis Management

·      Having a plan and being prepared before crises occur

·      Elements of the plan

·      Crisis management team

·      Executing plan(s) when crises do happen

 

Conclusion

- Staff, Leadership Institute

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