What you’ll learn
- Preparing for Your First Media Interview
- Eliminating Nervousness
- Improving On-Camera skills
- Message Development
- Answering Questions
- Speaking in Sound Bites
- Mastering Fundamentals of Media Training.
Requirements
- video recording device on mobile phone, tablet or PC
Description
Imagine yourself confidently answering a reporter’s questions, knowing that you are going to get the exact messages and quotes you want in the final news story. You can give interviews right now, with the same skill of someone who has done thousands of interviews over decades.
Media Training for Beginners covers every aspect of speaking to the news media. Even if you have never been interviewed before, you can quickly gain the confidence you need to get your message across, after completing this course. TJ Walker is an internationally renowned media trained with more than 30 years of experience. He will teach you how to do four things: 1. Look comfortable on camera. 2. Prepare media messages. 3. Answer questions strategically and 4. Speak in sound bites.
After spending four hours in this course, you will learn how to be successful in any interview. You do not have to learn in front of the whole world during a real interview. The time to learn media do’s and don’ts is now, before your next interview takes place.
This course will give you step-by-step instructions on how to prepare and practice for any media interview, talk show appearance or interaction with a reporter. Your homework will include conducting practice interviews with yourself using your cell phone or other video recording device. As unpleasant as that may seem, the homework will drastically reduce your nervousness for your real interview.
You do not have to do a poor or average job on media interviews for a dozen years in order to be great at media interviews. You can learn the secrets right now.
TJ Walker will be sharing with you the very best secrets he has learned over the last 30 years conducting media training sessions with Celebrities, Presidents of countries, Prime Ministers, Nobel Peace Prize winners, NFL stars, and even Miss Universes. He’s trained more than 10,000 people from six contents and most were frightened and nervous before their first interview.
Now is your chance to learn top media training skills from a first-class media trainer. You will not regret signing up for this class.
TJ Walker has created numerous Udemy best-selling courses in the fields of personal development, public speaking, presentation skills, media training and communication skills.
Walker is the founder of Media Training Worldwide and has been conducting public speaking training workshops and seminars since 1984. Walker has trained Presidents of countries, Prime Ministers, Nobel Peace Prize winners, Super Bowl winners, US Senators, Miss Universes and Members of Parliament. He has conducted presentation and media training workshops on six continents in more than two dozen countries.
His book, “Secret to Foolproof Presentations” was a USA Today # 1 Bestseller, as well as a Wall Street Journal, and Business Week Bestseller.
Walker is also the author of “Media Training AZ” and “Media Training Success.”
Walker’s Facebook page “TJ Walker Speak to Influence” is the #1 page for 7-day a week video tutorials on how to be a better public speaker and communicator.
In 2009, Walker set the Guinness Book of World Records for Most Talk Radio Appearances ever in a 24 hour period.
Walker has also served as a former President of the National Speakers Association, New York City.
Walker was a merit scholar at Duke University where he graduated magna cum laude.
What others say:
“TJ Walker’s single-minded devotion to presentation has made him the #1 expert for executives seeking guidance on speaking to the public and media.” Bob Bowdon, Anchor/Reporter, Bloomberg Television
“TJ Walker is the leading media trainer in the world.” Stu Miller, Viacom News Producer
(TJ Walker’s Media Training Worldwide) “The world’s leading presentation and media training firm.” Gregg Jarrett, Fox News Channel Anchor