Provided as part of the Premier League Lifeskills programme.
Training programmes for all development age groups and abilities.
Realistic, practical, demanding, fun and effective training.
Training delivered by current working sports journalists.
Face to face or online training to meet your needs and timescales.
Provided in association with the Premier League Lifeskills programme, our training is designed to be fun, punchy, interactive and realistic, with the aim to get players thinking and doing.
All our training is designed specifically to fit your busy training schedule with flexible length sessions on a date to suit you.
Our team of experienced sports journalists, presenters and camera operators are also great trainers, primed and ready to get the very best interview performance from your Academy players. And as the media skills they’ll learn with us are transferable skills, you’ll see a difference in how your players communicate, every day.
In this hands-on course, our experienced trainers will guide players through how to be confident, credible and engaging in a media interview, and give them the chance to put their skills to the test in broadcast interviews to camera and mic.
Players will learn:
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"The training really helps to remove the fear and mistrust our young players have of talking to journalists and it gives them the key skills they need to prepare for and give a more confident, professional interview. The players have grown in confidence and now see a media interview as an opportunity to represent themselves, the club and football in general – not something to be endured! Not only are they now producing excellent interviews, but we’ve seen a huge improvement in their communication skills all round."
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Setting the sceneTo get players engaged from the get-go a ‘shout out’ will challenge the negative perception some may have of the media and encourage the group to instead consider the opportunity it presents
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Understanding the media
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Video examples - the good, the bad and the ugly |
Audience workshop
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The importance of PREPARATION before an interview
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The different styles of media interview
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Practical interview sessionPlayers will be asked to volunteer to give an interview to camera with playback and coaching. |
Body language and voice coaching workshop
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How to manage the curveball question
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Q&A to journalist |
I would recommend Media First to any club looking to improve the confidence of its players when they face the media.
Being able to give a decent interview in the run up to or after a match is an increasingly important part of a player’s armoury. Media First’s training is really practical with experienced sports journalists and presenters who give you a toolbox of simple skills that make the experience much less daunting.
Good refresher from the training I did a number of years ago. Great to have a safe space to practice a new story that we haven’t yet landed all the messaging.
Claire S
26th April 2024
Excellent training day, with lots of tips and advice on how to prepare for and deliver interviews over the phone, on TV and on radio.
Vicky P
26th April 2024
The training was very insightful on how to prepare for a radio or TV interview. There were lots of useful tips to help keep the interview on message and ways in which you can make that message more focused to reach an audience. The exercises were practical and helped me rehearse for interviews in a safe setting and then time to reflect on the learning from that experience and to adjust my response in a real time interview setting. This training was time well spent and delivered by experienced professionals who were able to show me and my colleagues techniques that upskilled us to be better prepared for when we're next asked to take part in an interview.
John M
26th April 2024
Really focused training and at the end of the training i definitely feel more confident in being able to handle questions i am not prepared for.
gemma w
26th April 2024
The course was clearly designed for rapid improvement. The day felt very fast but the sections built on each other, such that you did not realise how much progress you actually made until the final presentation.
Daniel H
26th April 2024
A course to identify your weaknesses and strengths in speaking and presenting to others.
Receiving skills and tools to best help when presenting
Marc H
24th April 2024
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