Planning and Managing PR Campaigns

Course Info

Length: 1 Week

Type: Online

Available Dates

Fees

  • Dec-09-2024

    1,550

  • Jan-27-2025

    1,550

  • Feb-24-2025

    1,550

  • Mar-31-2025

    1,550

  • Apr-28-2025

    1,550

  • May-26-2025

    1,550

  • June-30-2025

    1,550

  • July-28-2025

    1,550

  • Aug-25-2025

    1,550

  • Sep-22-2025

    1,550

  • Oct-27-2025

    1,550

  • Nov-24-2025

    1,550

  • Dec-29-2025

    1,550

Course Details

Course Outline

5 days course

 
Effective PR Campaigns:
 
  • Perceptions of PR among senior managers
  • The global information village
  • Putting a cash value on reputation and the PR that builds it
  • PR campaigns – their use and their risks
  • Case study examples – what works and what does not
  • Practical example – tackling a business challenge
  • Evaluation

 

Problem-Solving Approach to Campaigns:
 
  • Brand, identity and image, the basis of reputation
  • Assessing your reputation and the use of ‘gap’ analysis
  • The origins of PR and its foundations in the social sciences
  • Business strategy and problem identification
  • Problem-solving methods – choosing the right one
  • Problem analysis – desk research, stakeholder analysis, PEST and SWOT
  • Setting measurable objectives
  • Force field analysis and risk identification
Planning and Costing Campaigns:
 
  • Identifying the stages of the campaign and decision points
  • Preparing an effective schedule – critical path analysis
  • Critical path analysis
  • Costing the plan and preparing a budget
  • Anticipating risk and planning to meet it
  • Identifying stakeholders and their role to the campaign
  • Coordinating campaign elements across stakeholder groups
Channels, Delivery, and Evaluation:
 
  • From strategy to tactics
  • Environmental scanning
  • Developing a media relations plan
  • Crisis media relations
  • Principles of evaluation
  • Research tools and methods
  • Channel effectiveness and use of media
  • Social media and tools
  • Using influencer strategies to multiply effectiveness

 

Effective Delivery in Your Organisation:
 
  • Risk-management approach
  • Dealing with contingencies
  • Winning support - selling ideas to others in the business
  • Presenting your case to senior management
  • Reading body language and other signals
  • Integrating your campaign into your media and company reporting
  • Ensuring that results are seen and credited
  • Personal action planning

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