Summer 2021 is already looking a bit brighter than the long ‘Groundhog’ days of lockdown during 2020. Although Covid will be part of our lives for years, most UK adults are now vaccinated and within a few weeks half the population should be fully protected after receiving their second jab. At Scottish Media Training …
We realise many businesses, charities and other organisations are getting themselves re-organised after the worst of the pandemic, so with that in mind and to help businesses and organisations get back on their feet , we have decided to keep our prices at 2019 levels. We’ll also be continuing with our very popular ZOOM training …
STOP PRESS: IN PERSON MEDIA TRAINING COURSES ARE BACK FROM 1st JUNE 2021 Read More »
Our USP when media training, either conventionally (those were the days…) or via Zoom since last March has been KEEP IT SIMPLE. Don’t overload participants with information – keep to the essentials – and that probably explains why we get so much repeat business. Zoom media training is the now not so new kid on …
“This is a difficult time for all businesses, but we will recover when the worst of the COVID-19 virus is behind us. We have been in the professional media business for nearly 15 years. Our team has been called on site to manage a large range of reputation and crisis management issues. From industrial fatalities, …
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2016 has been our busiest year so far and we are always amazed at the diversity of enquiries we receive. One that particularly intrigued us was from a major faith community planning a workshop as part of Inter Faith Week later this month. Scotland still has a strong faith base to its society, although fair …
Scottish Media Training wins major Inter-Faith Week Tender Read More »
Can you deliver an effective and compelling ‘Interview Performance’ of a Life Time ? That of course is a question nobody can give a perfect answer to. Effective and compelling interviews are complex beasts. We’ve all seen many ‘out take’ programmes on TV – reporters ‘corpsing’, interviewees completely stuck for words and what might have been a …
With Brexit now a reality, what if folk singer Ralph McTell had penned his anthem ‘Streets of London’ in 2016, rather than the late 60’s ? How would the line ‘Yesterday’s papers telling Yesterday’s News’ now sit? Today, he may well have written “Today’s Paper’s telling Yesterday’s News? The Brexit result is yet another example of …
Brexit – Today’s Papers – Telling Yesterday’s News Read More »
Mastering the media interview is a bit like having a cookbook. Find the recipe that tantalises your palate, but look very carefully at the ingredients…and then make a decision! Do you have them all, or do you need to pop into the supermarket to buy that special ingredient that will ‘make’ the dish? Or, do …
Note the name – Merlin ERD. Scottish Media Training now knows them very well indeed! The Perth-based company specialises in ERD – Extended Reach Drilling – and it works with the oil and gas industry to show that fields that were perhaps considered ‘exhausted’ in terms of the viability of getting the hydrocarbons out of the seabed, …
The third month into 2016 and we’re busy dealing with a dozen enquiries for media and presentation training. What’s more, already this year, we’ve trained groups of staff from BIG organisations like APS – the Association of Project Safety, had three media training days with staff from NHS Health Scotland, had our third day with The …
March-ing on – a busy month for Scottish Media Training Read More »