“It doesn’t matter what the Reporter asks you – you’re going to tell them what you want to tell them… and I’ll show you how.” Once upon a time this was the sage advice of media trainers. If you hear one say it to you today – you should probably fire them. The concept of…
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Key Messages – a working scenario
In our last blog, we talked about key messages being the guidelines, as opposed to the script, when responding to a media contact. In this blog, we’re going to show how to put this into practice. A fairy tale Let’s start with a simple exercise. Get five people to separately tell you the fairy tale…
What Key Messages are … and what they aren’t
Key messages can be useful tools to ensure we say the right thing to the right people at the right time. I like to think of them as sign posts along a winding path through a rugged landscape, or buoys that mark the shipping lane in a harbour. If I need to start a conversation,…