
Distill thirty years of PR experience into ten foundational principles that guide your public relations career like a compass in a changing landscape, delivering measurable results.
Public relations builds relationships between organizations and their publics, emphasizing trust, authentic communication, and proactive stakeholder management to maintain reputation and prevent spin.
Create content that treats audience needs as queen by delivering tailored, audience-focused storytelling across platforms. Foster inbound marketing and soft-sell content that builds relationships with stakeholders and drives sales.
Earn trust by aligning actions with words, showing integrity, transparency, and consistency. Build an emotional bank account with employees, customers, and communities to endure crises and prevent trust erosion.
Link public relations activities to measurable results by focusing on ROI, using measurement and evaluation to move the needle toward the organization's mission.
Conduct situation, audience, and organizational analyses to ground public relations plans in reality. Avoid fiction, and use SWOT to maximize strengths, minimize weaknesses, and align with stakeholders.
Principle 10 urges public relations professionals to be a bridge, not a barrier, by listening, building trust, and bridging divides through dialogue and action for measurable results.
Learn to write a straight news release using the inverted pyramid, AP style, and the five W's and one H, emphasizing news values, quotes, attribution, and a clear boilerplate.
This course provides a top-level view of the public relations profession and answers questions such as, "What is public relations?" and "How can I be a successful PR professional?" My more than 30 years practicing and teaching public relations went into the creation of my top 10 foundational PR principles. Whether you just want to know more about public relations or take your PR career to the next level, this course is for you. Beginner or mid-level practitioner, this course will help you develop more effective PR strategies and tactics, and teach you the secrets of building long-term relationships, delivering tangible results, and keeping your bosses and clients happy.
The public relations industry has changed dramatically over the last 10 to 20 years. Old maps of the PR field are no longer useful; and new maps will need to be updated continually in order to be helpful. This is course is not a map, but rather a compass. The principles in this course are designed to guide you through your PR career no matter how the terrain changes. I have hundreds of former students who are using these principles today to help manage the public relations efforts of major corporations in Silicon Valley and beyond. And I’m sure these principles will be helpful to you as well.
ADDITIONAL CONTENT: You will also get one additional video that guides you step-by-step through writing an effective news release.