This one day course teaches you how to kick start a successful blog and gives you a myriad of strategies in order to guarantee success in the blogosphere.

A blog allows you to interact personally and directly with your audience. In addition, many companies are now using blogs as an essential part of their digital marketing strategy to humanise brands and to drive new traffic to their website.

This course is designed to help you create a short and long term strategy for your blog - vital if your blog is to be a success. Whether you are an individual or an organisation, this is an essential introduction to blogging. See course details

Good written communication helps organisations communicate successfully. Business reports and communications should be clear, concise and free of ambiguity. This course will help you develop business writing skills that convey a targeted message and project a professional image. Through practical, hands-on exercises you will learn how to write more compelling and powerful business documents and reports. See course details

The ability to influence others, build relationships, manage conflict and communicate your thoughts effectively are vital skills in today’s working environment. This course uses a combination of case studies and practical exercises to help you develop the key skills required to communicate your thoughts and views effectively at work. See course details

This course is designed for those giving presentations with PowerPoint but who have been primarily limited to text slides, bullet points or clip art.

The course demonstrates how Microsoft PowerPoint can be used to produce slides with powerful visual impact and covers how to remain centre stage when delivering a presentation to create real impact with the audience. See course details

Many of us enjoy the creative possibilities of writing. All too often however the writing we have to do in our work - from memos to marketing material, corporate newsletters, sales information or web copy - can seem dull, lifeless and far from creative. This course offers practical exercises, advice from industry experts and tips and techniques to develop confidence in your powers of self-expression and harness that creativity in your line of work. Bring along some examples of your own work - and a sense of fun...
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Correct use of English grammar and accurate punctuation are areas that many people find difficult. This one day course is ideal for anyone who feels that their written work can sometimes let them down. The course covers the essentials of English grammar and how to correctly structure sentences. The course also provides hints and tips on how to avoid common errors in grammar and punctuation.

This course is not designed for those who wish to learn English as a foreign language.
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This course is designed for those who wish to improve their performance when giving presentations. It is also beneficial for anyone who has identified practical issues around their delivery style, needs specific coaching or finds delivering presentations a nerve-racking experience. During the course we will identify your individual strengths and weaknesses and outline the practical steps that each participant can take to become a effective presenter. You will be recorded several times during the course for analysis and feedback.
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This course is designed to help you deliver a message clearly, concisely and effectively - whatever the format. The course offers practical lessons and valuable guidance whether you are writing reports, leaflets, online messages, contracts or sales literature. You will develop your own style of writing and hone those skills allowing you to convey the maximum information in the minimum space. See course details

This one day course will ensure that the minutes you take at meetings are clear, accurate and professional. The course will provide you with all the essential skills you need for minute taking. By having a clear understanding of the aim of the meeting and the benefit of having minutes, you will learn how to work with the chair, prepare the agenda, record the meeting, understand the salient points, and how to produce clear, well structured, actionable minutes. See course details

Making effective use of social media provides businesses with immediate, targeted access to their customers and potential customers.

This course will enable to you to harness the power of social media to achieve this goal.

Using a combination of websites, blogs, emails, social media and smartphone apps you can communicate with, influence and sell to your target audience in a more immediate and interactive way than ever before. See course details

Social media is now an indispensible part of any business’s digital marketing strategy. It is widely used for marketing, communicating with customers - existing and potential - and for promoting events, products and services.

Currently, most companies dabble with Facebook and Twitter but fail to harness their full potential or increase their revenue.

As this is a private course you can focus exclusively on your own business.

By the end of the course you will have a full understanding of how your business can harness social media and you will have written a social media strategy for your company. See course details

Getting your message across successfully on television and radio is crucial in today’s media driven world. This unique course simulates the real thing - lights, microphones, journalists, awkward questions and tension so that when it comes to a real interview, you’ll know exactly what to do. The course includes a telephone interview for print media, a radio interview, a ‘live studio’ television interview and a ‘down the line’ television interview. This course is a combination of real, informed advice from media experts and practical interview experience and has been designed to help you define, refine and deliver your story.

This course is delivered by an extremely experienced journalist with over 20 years experience covering stories on a local, national and international level. As a contributor to Radio 4’s flagship Today programme as well as news bulletins on Five Live, BBC Breakfast News, News 24 and BBC World Television, the tutor brings a wealth of media experience and expertise to help you project exactly the right image and message.
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Being interviewed for radio can be an unnerving experience. You have a short time to get your message across and the listeners will be hanging on to every word. This practical course helps you find the skills and confidence to communicate your message effectively. The course provides the opportunity to practice different types of radio interview - the short news soundbite, the longer discussion programme, the telephone interview and an interview with a roving reporter. You will discover how to focus on key points together with encouragement and practical sound advice from an extremely experienced radio professional. This course is ideal for anyone who needs an excellent grounding in being interviewed on radio.
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