Sparring
Do you need an experienced associate to follow your work and help optimize your skills?
In the role of a senior working partner, I offer to accompany you over the course of three months or more and offer personalized feedback. After each session, there will be an assignment with one-to-one follow-up.
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Based on your needs and preferences, we will design a unique program from the following curriculum of subjects:
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Sharing the good news
a. The good story - where to find it and how to tell it.
b. News values - five official and five unofficial
c. Exercise -
Writing with clarity
a. The art of writing - 10 good practices.
b. The press release - 6 easy steps to writing a press release
c. Exercise -
Interviewing with purpose
a. The right sources - 4 kinds not to mix
b. Interview technique - 10 keys to getting quality statements
c. Exercise -
Composing the story
a. Storytelling and genres - 4 models and 2 genres with 4 subgenres
b. Editing and versionizing - 3 steps in editing and how to use different platforms
c. Assignment -
Engaging in debate
a. Basic rhetoric and discussion genres - how to persuade and display wit
b. Framing the message - and the need to reframe it -
Getting on top of your work
a. A communications strategy
b. An effective work habit -
Assignment evaluated
Certificate issued