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Jo Detavernier will be teaching two courses at Let’s Talk Science

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Jo Detavernier will teach two distinct courses on media training.

Let’s Talk Science is an annual event at which Flemish universities and non-university institutes of higher education help their researchers hone their communication skills. This year, the event takes place from 1 to 3 July and is hosted by KU Leuven.

Jo Detavernier will lead the following two sessions at the 2025 edition of Let’s Talk Science:

A Survival Guide to Efficient Media Interviews

Description:
This session will equip participants with the skills needed to conduct effective media interviews. It will cover essential verbal and non-verbal delivery techniques, including headlining, flagging, and bridging. The content has been co-developed with the renowned British behavioral science consulting agency, Communication Science Group, ensuring an evidence-based approach.

Objective:
Participants will learn how to:

  • Prepare effectively for media interviews (15% of the session)
  • Communicate their messages clearly and persuasively (80% of the session)
  • Follow up with journalists after the interview (5% of the session)


Bootcamp: Using ChatGPT to Prepare for Your Media Interview

Description:
This hands-on bootcamp will demonstrate how participants can use ChatGPT to prepare for media interviews. Key use cases include researching journalists and their publications, refining key messages, and anticipating tough questions.

Objective:
Participants will gain practical insights into leveraging ChatGPT for media interview preparation.

The courses are not open to the public. However, Detavernier Strategic Communications is available to deliver tailored training sessions covering the content of both courses for organizations and companies seeking to train and prepare their communicators for media interviews. Contact us today for more information.

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Jo Detavernier hosts webinar on preparing the C-suite for media interviews

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On 24 October 2024, Detavernier Strategic Communication organizes a webinar on how communication and marketing professionals can beest prepare their C-suite to media interviews.

The webinar has been designed to help communication and marketing professionals better prepare their C-suite for media interviews.

Jo Detavernier will lead the session, which will be divided into two parts: the first will focus on organizing effective media training sessions for leaders, while the second will provide best practices for ongoing support and preparation for media engagements.

Two of Detavernier Strategic’s expert media trainers will join as guest speakers. Ray Young will discuss optimal preparation for broadcast media interviews, while Sabine Steen-Lakerveld will explore the differences between media interviews in Europe and the United States.

The webinar will cover:

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  • Structuring the flow of a media training session
  • Techniques for designing key messages
  • Essential verbal and non-verbal delivery skills
  • Sourcing third-party vendors for media training


Daily media management

  • Coaching and preparing leaders for interviews
  • Staffing interviews effectively
  • Post-interview follow-up procedures


The webinar is open to in-house PR, marketing, and corporate communication directors and managers. It will take place from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM on October 24, 2024.

Click here to register today.

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How message maps help spokespeople prepare for media interviews

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Message maps are essential tools for spokespeople who need to prepare for media interviews.

Spokespeople do well to carefully prepare the messages they want to convey in their media interviews in advance. If they fail to do so, the success of their media performance becomes dependent on the journalist asking the “right” questions, a strategy that comes with many risks (journalists tend to not care much about asking the right questions). Here is where message maps come in.

Through a message map, all key messages a spokesperson plans to convey in a media interview are laid out in advance. The key messages are selected in function of the communication objectives the spokesperson wants to achieve; those objectives will always pertain to changing how at least one group of stakeholders knows, feels, or acts in relation to the topic at hand.

Let’s use an example of a company that wants its clients, prospects, and potential investors to know that it is growing rapidly and that even more growth is on the horizon. Media messages at the start of the year could consist of one key message on how the company just finished the previous year with strong organic growth, and another key message on how the company has made strategic investments in the past year for continued growth in the coming year.

Because people can only remember a maximum of five things, message maps typically contain up to three to five key messages. Also, for key messages to be perceived as credible, they need to be backed by facts and figures.

To circle back to our example, if an organization is planning to communicate that it has made strategic investments in strong growth, it will have to disclose a minimum of specifics about what type of investments have been made and what the size of the investments looked like. Without specifics, key messages are gratuitous statements.

In conclusion, spokespeople who are armed with a thoughtfully conceived message map will enter media interviews with a crystal clear view of the information they want to convey, and will – for that reason – perform better than less prepared interviewees.

Coming soon, we will discuss how message maps are crucial to helping spokespeople “bridge” questions that offer themselves insufficient opportunities to place key messages or proof points.

This article is based on the media training module Detavernier Strategic Communication has developed in partnership with the Communication Science Group. For more information on the media training, contact us today.



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Virtual media training on June 4

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A new, unique online session will teach participants evidence-based media interview preparation and delivery techniques.

In the 1 hour long online training session Jo Detavernier will explain in clear terms and offer examples and demonstrations on

  • how spokespeople should prepare for media interviews (15%)
  • what the key media interview delivery techniques look like (80%)
  • how interviewees should follow up with the journalist (5%)

Among the delivery techniques that will be taught are bridging, flagging and headlining. Participants will also hear how they need to best prepare and structure their messaging, how the media works (news value, attribution, exclusivities etc.) and what to do once the interview takes place.

Special attention will be given to message development and delivery techniques that are ‘evidence-based’ meaning that psychological research has validated the techniques as being efficient.

After the session, the participants will receive a video recording of the session that will not be made public to anyone else .

Ten percent of the proceeds will be donated to Bookspring, an Austin, TX based non-profit that makes slightly used childrens books freely available to low-income children in central Texas.

TO REGISTER: click on this link to the Eventbrite page.

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Open media training in Austin

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On May 28, Detavernier Strategic Communication will organize an open media training with camera crew at Capital Factory in Austin.

Participants will learn:

  • how to prepare for media interviews (message maps, Q&As, and tough questions among others)
  • how to deliver interviews (covering both verbal and non-verbal delivery with special attention to techniques such as key bridging, headlining, and flagging techniques)
  • how to follow-up after interviews

Delivery techniques taught will be current and evidence-based, giving participants a privileged view on the latest insights that the behavioral sciences spokespeople have to offer.

Registering is easy and can be done through clicking on this link. PRSA members and non-profit executives receive a discount.