OVERVIEW OF COURSES
CONSILIA is a leading provider of specialist high level training to UK and European business and is retained by the European Commission to provide media training courses for all senior Commission officials. CONSILIA is an accredited supplier of training courses to the Bar Council, and all courses count towards CPD hours. Evening courses are 2 CPD hours; all day courses are 7 CPD hours.
CONSILIA also advises on the handling of complex and intractable communications issues, including crisis communications and information management.
OVERVIEW OF COURSES
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These courses introduce participants to the basic principles of handling the media. Introduced and led by an experienced journalist, they provide the broad ground rules for managing contacts with journalists, how to present information in an interesting yet accurate way, and how to avoid the pitfalls.CONSILIA offers short evening introductory courses and all day courses on the same subject in more depth. Evening courses are listed first.
EVENING COURSE
MEDIA HANDLING
An introduction to dealing with the media
This two hour evening course aims to introduce participants to the basic principles of handling the media. Introduced and led by an experienced journalist, the course covers the workings of the media, and explains how journalists go about their jobs. It explains the pressures on the media of technology, deadlines and a competitive marketplace.
Examples of how issues were handled well - and badly - will be given, and course attendees will be encouraged to exercise their skills in mock encounters with the course tutor on pre-prepared scenarios.
The course will end by covering the broad ground rules of how to manage contacts with journalists, how to present information in an interesting yet accurate way, and how to avoid the pitfalls.
Course Dates
FULL DAY COURSE
MEDIA HANDLING
Speaking out in the media - jurisprudence
and other issues
This one day course aims to introduce participants to the principles of handling the media. Introduced and led by an experienced journalist, the course covers the workings of the media, and explains how journalists go about their jobs. It explains the pressures on the media of technology, deadlines and a competitive marketplace.
Examples of how issues were handled well - and badly - will be given, and course attendees will be encouraged to exercise their skills in mock encounters with the course tutor on pre-prepared scenarios.
In today's legal world, the court of public opinion is almost as important as the court of law. It is possible to win a case before the bench and lose before the court of public opinion. Our speciality is in teaching the art of advocacy while in the glare of the media. This could include issues such as "Should trail by jury be restricted or abolished?", "Does some proposed law relating to immigration/security/internet surveillance infringe our liberty?" or "Is the legal system run for the benefit of litigants or lawyers?" or "Are judges usurping the role of Parliament in law making?"
Handling arguments effectively in the media and understanding how to reconcile the conflicting demands of a lawyer's professionalism and the media is a valuable skill which this course will impart. The course uses scenarios and case histories and is limited in numbers in order that each participant can practise his or her skills in exercises in front of a camera.
Course Dates
FULL DAY COURSE
MEDIA HANDLING
Inquiries and tribunals - dealing with
the media
This one day course focuses on the skills required to handle the media during statutory inquiries and tribunals, which are playing an increasingly important role in the development of English and European law and administrative practise. The media gives large scale coverage to such proceedings and barristers are expected to argue a case not just in front of such a body, but also in front of the media.
This all day course would be heavily scenario based, using relevant case studies. Our experience of working with legal teams at public inquiries and in major planning disputes enables us to understand both the legal and the PR implications of any public statements. The course is limited in numbers in order that each participant can practise his or her skills in exercises in front of a camera.
Course Dates
Philip Geddes has been in communications for over 20 years. He has worked for the BBC and other broadcasters, and The Financial Times, and has advised many leading international companies, and public bodies, including the European Commission on their relations with the media. In the past three years he has worked for one in four FT-SE 100 companies.
Mark Rogerson produced and presented Radio 4's Financial World Tonight and subsequently became BBC TV's Economics Correspondent. He has also worked on The Money Programme and on Superchannel's European Business Week. He has developed and co-ordinated a range of communications and crisis management programmes for clients throughout Europe.
