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How to deal with the Media through honesty, integrity, and skill.

Courses and seminars on how to focus your organization's message; how to prepare a media campaign, including the proper way to prepare news releases, set up news conferences, and interest the media in what you have to say. Here are some tips on how to run a news conference.

How to plan for when things either go wrong or, when the news of the day is you.

Every organization needs a Media Crisis Plan to identify who does and says what, when the cameras, microphones, and notebooks start sprouting. A Media Crisis Plan isn't just for disasters. It also deals with sudden positive developments which, if not handled properly, can turn into public relations disasters. Ten things to do in a crisis.

How to be a better journalist.

Many smaller news organizations cannot afford advanced training for reporters, writers, editors and producers. Rick Grant Communications provides intermediate and advanced news writing courses, interviewing skills development, story development workshops, and news media ethics seminars. Our most requested course is, "How to Conduct an Effective, Powerful, and Fair, News Interview (without wasting anybody's time). Techniques used by the best interviewers How to become a foreign correspondent, and survive

Writing Services.

Rick Grant Communications can provide newsletters, speeches and reports, as well as reportage for organizations trying to stimulate news interest. Here's a piece done to draw attention to the problem of landmines in the former Yugoslavia.

How to Overcome Procrastination at Work and at Home; Improve your life by getting things done.

Getting things done is not just a matter of willpower, scheduling and setting deadlines. The process of achieving a goal is complex. Chronic procrastinators need the help of qualified psychologists. But for the rest of us there are a variety of techniques, tools, tricks, and insights, which can double or triple a person's effectiveness. The techniques taught in the Rick Grant Communications seminars automatically improve productivity in the workplace and at home by zeroing in on what motivates a person to succeed.

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