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Public Relations and Mass-market Communications

What Will I Learn?

Public Relations and Communications are at the heart of business performance. Modern methods, tools and channels have greatly increased the speed in which communications can be experienced, from local to global Public Relations and Mass-market Communications are at the heart of business performance. Modern methods, tools and channels have greatly increased the speed in which communications can be experienced, from local to global. Global organizations are realizing that their corporate communications and marketing functions need to work closely to communicate with stakeholders. This growing interdependence has partly been driven by the impact of online communications on organizational reputation. This course recognizes this industry shift and explores the drivers and dynamics of modern corporate communications and its relationship with marketing and public relations. You focus on stakeholder management, global strategic marketing, brand management, reputation management, media relations and social media.

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Indicative Content

    • Introduction to Public Relations

      • Understanding Public Relations terms and concepts

      • Models of Public Relations

      • Elements of Public Relations

      • Foundation principles of Public Relations

      • Evolution of Public Relations

    • Public Relations Components

      • Essential components of Public Relations

      • Tools of Public Relations

      • Strategic development in Public Relations

      • Target audience

      • Media strategy

    • Public Relations Planning

      • Defining goals and objectives

      • Understanding your audience

      • Understanding your competition

      • Developing a team

      • Organizing activities

      • Establishing a working strategy

    • Key Target Audiences

      • Identifying and prioritizing stakeholders

      • Market research for Public Relations

      • Developing messages for diverse demographics

      • Transcultural communication.

    • Public Relations Campaigns

      • Introduction to campaigns

      • Theories of campaigns

      • Campaign design, research and implementation

      • Developing and evaluation frameworks for campaigns

    • Crisis Management

      • Introduction to crisis management

      • Establishing a crisis management team

      • Crisis action prevention

      • Crisis management damage control models

      • Emergency response plans

      • Business continuity management systems

    • Ethical Issues in Public Relations

      • Understanding ethical codes of conduct in Public Relations

      • Models for ethical behavior

      • Ethical theories in Public Relations

      • Workplace ethics and the Law

      • Public perception and client relations

    • Power of Communication

      • Welcome and Introductions

      • Program overview, design and options

      • Opening Exercise: goal setting

      • The Big Picture: overview and PR strategy

      • When Public Relations should be used

      • Corporate Identity and Image: establishing a positive image and identity

      • Becoming a Neighbor of Choice: external reputation management

      • Leaders’ Role in Managing Communications

    • Understanding organization

      • The expectations of employees and employers

      • Understanding audiences

      • Plotting the stakeholder communication journey

      • Getting the message out to audiences

      • Storytelling

      • Empowering employees through social media

      • Steps for creating clear content that has impact

      • Developing trust and credibility with senior leaders

    • Corporate Communications

      • Media Relations best practices

      • Effective event management

      • Developing a crisis management toolkit

      • Hosting VIP visits

      • Protocol in practice

      • Financial PR activities and roles

      • Multinational and global communication challenges

    • Risks and Threats

      • Planning for the unexpected

      • Using communication activities to manage risk to reputation

      • Repairing a damaged reputation

      • Identifying opinion formers and influencers

      • Engaging with key decision makers

      • Principles for building sustainable relationships with decision makers and influencers

      • VIP and political contact programs

      • Monitoring political activities

    • Powerful and Persuasive Planning

      • 10 stages of PR planning

      • Using market research to plan PR activities

      • Developing measurable objectives for activities

      • Identifying core messages

      • Developing practical communication toolkits

      • Creating a schedule of PR activities

      • Measuring outputs, outcomes and value

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Objectives

  • Set Corporate Affairs in its strategic anticipatory and effective context

  • Develop an understanding of stakeholder programs for regular, focused communication activities

  • Examine the development of Corporate Affairs tools

  • Understand how to develop and coordinate strategy, plans and tactics

  • Evaluate the use of research.

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Course Features

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  • Duration 90 Days
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