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MEDIA SKILLS

For most people, an encounter with the media, whether by chance or by choice, is a challenging and often intimidating experience. Every media encounter is unique and offers a limited window for you to communicate your message and tell your story. Chernekoff Communications Media Skills Training Program shows you how to seize and make the most of every media opportunity.

Chernekoff Communications offers custom media skills training to prepare you for media interviews from radio and TV broadcasts, to podcasts, webcasts, print, telephone, news conferences and one-on-one media interactions.

Our media skills training program helps you deliver substance, presence, and style, even in the face of the toughest inquiry. We prepare you to tell your story with power, confidence and clarity. You will learn how to establish credibility and build trust; how to connect with your audience! Our unique training, which includes being videotaped by a professional camera person, to simulate a live TV interview, will help you gain the confidence and comfort to think on your feet, as well as the tools to handle your next interview or news conference with courage, poise and self-assurance.

Our sessions are conducted by Jill Chernekoff, an accomplished, Emmy award-winning broadcaster, who brings unparalleled expertise to each media training session. A veteran of major market television news production, Jill’s insider knowledge gives you an edge when it comes to media interviews. Jill knows how reporters go after a story, what interviewers are looking for, and how you can maximize the odds for a favorable media experience.
  You will learn how to:  
 
  • Project confidence and credibility
  • Reduce your anxiety
  • Prepare and organize your message
  • Deliver the most significant message first in a compelling, believable and confident way
  • Have people care about what you have to say
  • Engage in animated, persuasive dialogue with your interviewer
  • Respond to questions in a crisp, succinct way
  • Be prepared for any hardball, ambush or sly media tactic
 
     
  Media skills are developed over time with practice and coaching. For many individuals, packaging a series of training and follow-up coaching sessions has proven to be the most effective way to achieve breakthrough results.
We offer:
  • One-on-one coaching
  • Company-wide training
  • Small group or department training
  • CEO training
  • Spokesperson training
  • Advanced training for your PR department
  • Maneuvering the Media minefield for Attorneys
  • Videotaped practice drills
Chernekoff Communications Media Training Program has successfully trained many clients from both the public and private sector over the years. For these clients, a media encounter is now an enormous opportunity to showcase their stories, their companies, and themselves.

Contact us today to start your Media Skills Training Program - to learn how to play the media game with integrity, confidence and credibility.
 
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