That headline may mean nothing to you. I hope it doesn’t. But many of our larger clients – charities especially, but also corporates and others – have associates – many that are not even widely known about – with offices across the world. Last year we got a call from a major UK charity. A …
What Do You Mean, Our Indian Office Manager Has Been Arrested? Read More »
written by guest blogger CATHERINE SCOTT – freelance journalist Like waiting for Christmas, the UK general election has been coming, and coming, for what seems like an eternity. But at midnight on July 3 the chattering political media will fall silent like guns at an armistice for nearly 24 hours until the polls close and …
……Well, not always, but if properly trained and, dare I say, rehearsed, there’s a much better chance your key messages will hit the spot. Media training remains our core service, and increasingly every type of social media you can imagine as well as more traditional types. But ever more varied presentation skills needs are so …
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 …
“Not another bloody election…” Politics, honestly! If I had a 12-sided pound coin for every time I’ve heard that from clients in the last few weeks, I’d be retiring soon. Next month’s general election will mean most Scots have been asked to vote seven times in the past three years. And that means the chances …
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2017! Where does the time go? January always brings with it the distant horizon of long months stretching ahead and easing your way back into ‘work mode’ is never an easy thing to get your head around. Scottish Media Training is always here to help with any media training request and there is a sound reason for getting …
We’re almost over 2016….and what a year this has been for Scottish Media Training – our busiest yet! It proves there is still an appetite and clamour for media training and whilst social media training is very much ‘en vogue’, the more ‘traditional’ formats – press, radio, television – even crisis management and presentation training still …
2016 – What a year it has been (so far) for Scottish Media Training Read More »
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 »
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, …