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.
Really excellent guidance, tools and delivery that covered in a relatively short period all our objectives as well as providing an opportunity for practical work. Sean is an excellent trainer.
Henrietta A
3rd February 2025
Incredibly valuable. I was really impressed by how tailored not just to our advanced feedback the course was, but by how receptive Sean was to, and how he pivoted and incorporated, the things we talked about wanting to get out of the course on the day.
Paul C
3rd February 2025
Very insightful and useful for social media personnel. I found it extremely helpful.
Sandra A
3rd February 2025
The training was very useful for learning how to speak with more confidence, how to engage a variety of audiences and deal with difficult/controversial questions. We were able to gain experience in print, radio and TV, which were all very different and require various skills.
Lynette G
31st January 2025
Valuable, practical training that gets you practicing throughout the day. The experienced team gave us insightful feedback to hone our communication skills. The lessons I took away will be useful far beyond the context of media interviews.
Jamie T
31st January 2025
Really interesting insight into how and what to do to deal with communicating with press. A lot of useful ideas and approaches for communicating in general.
Jonathan K
31st January 2025
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