UK Media Training First 🎤 Introducing "Ask Dave": the UK’s first AI-powered media training support tool, exclusively for our clients.Finished your course? But 6 weeks later need a reminder on how to handle nerves, prep key messages, or bridge tricky questions?Now you don’t need the slides, you’ve got "Ask Dave".💬 Available 24/7 after your training🧠 Built from 25 years of media & presentation coaching expertise✅ Aligned with CIPR best practice Recent testimonial: "I felt ve

Supporting UK Community Radio Presenters: A Free Guide from Mentor Media Training Community radio is a vital part of local culture, giving a voice to people, stories, and music that may not always find space in mainstream, regional and national media. Many of these presenters juggle their passion for broadcasting with full-time jobs, family commitments, and other responsibilities, making their dedication even more impressive. Recognising this, Mentor Media Training is offerin

Mentor Media Training Celebrates 25 Years of Communication Excellence Bath, UK – 3rd October 2024 UK-based Mentor Media Training, a pioneer in  communication training  and  media coaching , marked its 25th anniversary with a celebratory reception at the Bath Spa Hotel. The event brought together clients, industry colleagues, and communication professionals to reflect on Mentor's journey and celebrate its impact on the communication training industry. Founded in Bristol in 199

It's time to tell your execs: "There's no such thing as TV, radio & print." As such, the traditional forms of media: TV, radio and print no longer exist. When you take a moment to think about this, it's nothing you didn't already know.  They exist in the sense that you can still just about consume them in the traditional way you used to, but the linear, miss-it-and-it's-gone element has long passed. We can rewind live radio, catch-up, binge-watch, stream on devices, consume

1.1. Two similar articles: one human, one A.I. - can you tell which is which? Can and should we embrace A.I. tools such as ChatGPT to generate or re-write our work? The ethics and the SEO implications may be far reaching, if content is obviously duplicating work, apart from a few words and phrases here or there. The debate around artificial intelligence (A.I.) in Public Relations work has been raging for a few years. To our experiment then: One article below was re-written by

Podcasts are ALL the rage: well-produced, engaging and well presented, they are essentially bites of bespoke speech radio. Can anybody do it? So your firm has decided it’s doing a new podcast.  Marketing and communications has decided the subject area with some exec input and it’s looking promising. Now you just have to cast it, record and edit it, and distribute your masterpiece. Easy right? But let’s take a step back and ask ourselves a few questions; Firstly: why are we do

The conference season is in full swing with more face to face events since the pandemic. In the wake of the recent Conservative Party conference, where numerous people were caught napping, our team provides insight on how your conference speakers and their content can be more compelling, writes Chris Slade; journalist, former BBC News presenter and media/presentation trainer  Your conference – usual borefest? There we all are, sitting in a conference. Talk, slide, talk, slide