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PROGRAMME OUTLINE
DAY 1 - Introduction and Welcome: The Power of Communication
- Introduction and welcome
- Course programmed, design and options
- Opening exercise: Goal setting
- Corporate Affairs and Public Affairs approaches
- Corporate identity and image
- Corporate communications overview and strategy
- External reputation management Communication as a change agent
- Communication as goal for all managers
DAY 2 - From the Inside Out: Crafting Consistent Messages
- Internal communications
- Family and friends as Stakeholder
- Measuring emotional capital
- Communications channels mapping and monitoring
- Setting internal communications goals
- New media for rapid interaction
- Champions, opinion formers and incentivisation
- The place of the company magazine/newsletter
- The multinational internal communications programme
- Commitment from internal decision makers
DAY 3 - Risks and Threats: Their Identification and Management
- Single issue politics
- Special interest groups
- Whistleblowers and the rules of disclosure
- External opinion formers
- Cause related PR and core values
- Campaigns, their design and planning
- A crisis management toolkit
- Stakeholder interest inventories
- Opinion former networks
DAY 4 - Corporate Affair/PR in the Corporate Mix
- PR in the communications mix
- PR in the marketing mix
- Direct response PR
- Financial PR
- PR and strategy
- Brand PR
- Persuasion measurement techniques
- Integrating PR/Communications and marketing plans
- The art of leveraging
- Corporate affairs and customer relations
DAY 5 - Powerful and Persuasive Action Planning
- Measurement of performance: bottom line impact
- Translating strategy to tactics
- Horizons for PR and corporate affairs development
- Tools and Techniques summary: a tactical inventory
- Recruiting allies: a networking approach
- Justifying the plan and convincing top management
- Making the most of other disciplines to maximise results
- Individual and group consultancy
- Further sources of help and information
Training Methodology
Pathways Training and consulting adopts the newest techniques of human resources Training and consulting and, with the following:
- Theoretical lectures are delivered via PowerPoint and visual displays (videos and short films)
- Making scientific evaluation to the trainee (before and after)
- Brainstorming and role-playing
- Using case studies related to the scientific material being delivered and the trainees' work.
- The participants get the scientific and practical material printed and on CDs and Flash memories.
- Preparing records and reports of the participants' attendance and results, with a general evaluation of the training program.
- A group of the best trainers and experts in all fields and specialties professionally prepares the scientific material.
- After finishing the course, the participants get certificates of attendance signed, certified, and issued by pathways Training and consulting.
- Our training programs start at 9:00 o'clock in the morning and end at 2:00 in the afternoon, with snack buffet during the lectures.
- Providing a lunch buffet during the training program period, with organizing a lunch party on the training program final day for taking some photos and certificate awarding.
