Know your style
Media, Presentation & Communication Skills Training for Peak Performance
Presenting at your peak is key to success
How confident are you at delivering a media interview or presentation?
Even if your confidence is high, are you certain you are meeting your individual and organisation’s objectives?
Successful traditional media interviews, presentations and videos are a valuable way to raise your individual or organisational profile and get your message across to a range of stakeholders.
They are also essential when facing an internal or external issue or crisis. Leaders need to have the skills and tools to be able to quickly take control of the story, anticipate questions, and respond appropriately. Otherwise, brands can be quickly destroyed.
Whether it is a media interview, a presentation or a meeting, it is both what you say and how you say it that counts. We help you to know your style.
Time is money, and of the essence, so you need to have the skills to efficiently prepare for a presentation or media interview.
Our media skills, presentation skills and communication skills training and coaching will help take you to a new level of peak presenting.
Our Services
Peak Presenting (formerly Media Training Matters) provides training in a range of areas via one-on-one coaching or group workshops.
All workshops and coaching sessions are customised to meet the specific needs of organisations and participants. We’ll develop a program to address your skills development needs.
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Gain tips, tools and techniques to efficiently structure and deliver an effective presentation that engages your audience and achieves your objectives.
Learn how to:
• focus on what you say and how you say it
• develop the right messages and content
• engage your audience
• overcome nerves
• anticipate and respond to questions.
Put your new skills to the test by changing a presentation you bring to the training.
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Current and aspiring leaders need to focus on developing their personal brand and profile.
Organisations often require it as part of performance management and development plans.
We give you:
• practical tips, tools and techniques to work out your brand
• guidance on the right channels to raise and maintain your profile
• confidence to leave the session with a completed plan or one that is well underway.
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Gain practical tips, tools and techniques to efficiently prepare for and deliver an effective media interview.
Learn how to:
• develop key messages,
• overcome nerves
• anticipate and respond to difficult questions
• take control of the interview to achieve your objectives.
Put your new skills to the test in practice TV or radio interviews.
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Gain practical tips, tools and techniques to work effectively with media to achieve your business objectives.
Learn:
• how the media works
• identify story ideas
• draft media releases and pitches or internal briefing notes
• help prepare spokespeople
• ways to increase positive media coverage.
Know how to engage with media, especially regarding and issue or crisis.
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Don’t run the risk of destroying your profile or brand by being unprepared for inevitable issues or a crisis.
Learn how to:
• quickly develop key messages
• anticipate and respond to questions
• identify key audiences and communication channels
• take control of the narrative to achieve your objectives and protect your reputation.
Put your new skills and your crisis management plans to the test in practice scenarios including TV or radio interviews.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential criteria in most job roles. Have you or your organisation invested in developing those skills?
Our training targets gaps in:
• an individual’s or organisation’s communication capability
• communicating via email, writing briefs, policies and procedures
• delivering meetings and personal interviews
• customer and stakeholder communication.
We align our tips, tools and techniques with your organisation’s values and brand, as well as your communication channels, policies and procedures.
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As well as training and coaching in communication skills, our facilitators can help develop your communication strategies and plans. Many clients do not have in house communications specialists to do this work or their staff are too stretched with day to day tasks.
We have decades of experience as public relations and strategic communication consultants. During that time we have developed countless effective communication plans and strategies.
Let our experts help you communicate at a peak level with an effective communication strategy or plan.
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We deliver a series of customised workshops for senior and emerging leaders and councilors.
Our training covers:
• Enhancing media spokespeople skills (including on-camera training).
• Councilor induction module on effective communication skills, traditional and social media, and presenting to groups.
• Leveraging internal resources to support story generation and media management.
Why Peak Presenting?
Formula
Our simple formula helps you to efficiently structure your media interview, presentation or other communication to ensure peak performance.
Engaging
We combine theory and practice in a fun and engaging way to maximise participant engagement, competency development and learning outcomes.
Practical Tips
Our practical tips and tools help you to overcome nerves, feel in control and deliver a media interview or presentation more effectively. It isn’t as hard as you think.
Experience
Our workshop facilitators have decades of real-world experience in media, public relations and communication roles.
Customised
We customise every workshop and coaching session to meet your organisation’s needs as well as the needs and experience of participants.
Insights
Tips & resources for peak media & presentation performance.
Interviews
Skills
Training
What people say about our training
“Peak Presenting’s media training program is terrific. Mel and Craig have a huge breadth of knowledge and experience and are skilled at creating a supportive learning environment where people can grow and stretch.
It was a valuable investment in our people which will help them confidently engage and connect, not only with media, but with a broad range of stakeholders. I look forward to working with them again.”
Lauren Eyles, Executive Manager
Corporate Communications, Reflections Holiday Parks.
From our training participants
“The best training for media I have experienced
– thank you.”
“Everything was explained so clearly, and easily followed. I feel much more confident now.”
“Really valuable. Pitched at a level that was relevant to our roles.”
“Great facilitation and sharing of knowledge. Would recommend your training to others."
“Thanks for such thorough preparation to understand our program, roles, audience and how media relates to our roles.”
“This training will definitely help my media engagement in the future.”
“Mel and Craig were great – very interesting and engaging.”
“Excellent pre interview tools and techniques. 10/10. This program should be rolled out to more of our managers.”
“Really relevant and practical training. Thank you for your energy.”
“Very helpful tool and information. Facilitators impressive and very engaging.”
Specialists in media
and presentation skills
Training and coaching are delivered by communication experts - Craig Eardley and Melinda Smith. Both have decades of real-world experience working in media, public relations and communication roles.
