
Public Relations and Integrated Marketing Communications
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This course is designed to teach you how to THINK like public relations professional. To do so, you will need to understand the importance of research and the critical step in developing a public relations initiative: identifying and understanding your target audience. Once you have identified the public(s) you are trying to reach with your message, you can begin to build your public relations campaign.
Course content is designed to enable students to better identify the specific audiences they seek to reach, the characteristics of each audience, the tactics that are best suited to reach the audience and how various media (print and broadcast, trade and consumer, local and national, blogosphere, Twitter, Facebook, among others) can be used to reach them.
It is a training discipline for professional knowledge and skills in communication, applied to corporate management, in institutions of government, commerce and Industry non- profit agencies and academia.
The expertise and skills required of PR practitioners include the strategic handling of tools and channels for information distribution and retrieval, to build relationships with individuals and target groups or “publics” through planned Action and Communication via mass media, new media, and person to person.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
· To learn to think, write and speak like a publicist.
· To learn to identify 'news.'
· To understand the workings of the media -- and the 'new media' landscape – as the conduit to reach your target audience.
· To understand the different and varied techniques and their appropriate and strategic use.
· To reinforce the basic concepts of effective public relations.
· To better understand the impact of public relations on the news and the news on public relations.
Business Corporations, PR Specialist Service Providers, Advertising Agencies, NGOs, Government Divisions and Departments, Academia and in the Mass Media News and Entertainment Industry Corporations.
Core Skills for Public Relations
Foundation Based Skills for P.R.
Crisis Communication
Concentrations
· Public Relations
· Corporate Communications
· Integrated Marketing Communications
· Digital Communications
· Cause Communications
· Ethics
· Elements of Communications Planning
Electives
· Integrated Marketing Communications
· Global Communication in the Age of Social Media
· Crisis Communications
· Cause Consulting
· Digital Analytics and Measurement
· Brand and Creative Strategy
· Visual Storytelling
A variety of methodologies will be used during the course that includes:
· (30%) Based on Case Studies
· (30%) Techniques
· (30%) Role Play
· (10%) Concepts
· Pre-test and Post-test
· Variety of Learning Methods
· Lectures
· Case Studies and Self Questionaires
· Group Work
· Discussion
· Presentation
This rate includes participant’s manual, Hand-Outs, buffet lunch, coffee/tea on arrival, morning & afternoon of each day.
Daily Course Timings:
08:00 - 08:20 Morning Coffee / Tea
08:20 - 10:00 First Session
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee / Tea / Snacks
10:20 - 12:20 Second Session
12:20 - 13:30 Lunch Break & Prayer Break
13:30 - 15:00 Last Session