You can improve your interviewing skills in 3 simple ways: online training or offline training customised to your needs, or by completing a course in interviewing methods, built around fundamental exercises that will will make you a better interviewer. Let’s look at each of these options.
ONLINE COURSE
In this 6 lesson online course, you’ll learn how to carry out interesting, original interviews on any topic. The lessons include instruction in exactly what you need to know, followed by practical exercises to ensure the techniques become second nature. Become skilled in the following key areas:
- QUESTIONS. Craft more insightful, creative and original questions on any subject.
- BEHAVIOUR. Learn behaviour that gets more interesting answers from your guest.
- INTERVIEW STYLES. Understand the major interview types and how to perform each one of them well.
- MISTAKES. Learn common mistakes by interviewers and guests that make an interview boring and how to avoid them.
- PERSONALITY. Learn how to cultivate yourself to be a more spontaneous, interesting interviewer.
- CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION. Learn to carry out effective interviews with guests from diverse backgrounds.
The course is the distillation of years of media interviewing with guests from every walk of life. It contains the key ideas you need to be an interesting, original interviewer. It’s convenient to complete, affordable and will give you the skills you need. Enrol in your course and start developing your skills today.
PRICE: $130
CUSTOMISED TRAINING
In customised training, you’ll receive direct coaching online, or in-person at your organisation or our training space. You’ll learn through practical lessons and workshop exercises that help the fundamental and advanced interview skills become second nature to you. After the training, you’ll be asked to complete a test interview with a guest of your choice to put your new skills into practice and be given feedback to assess your performance and help you improve further.
You’ll go through the core and advanced skills covering questions, behaviour, interview styles, mistakes, personality and cross cultural communication along with real-time feedback as you go to help you take them to a higher level. The training is delivered over a concise 5 hour session (with breaks) tailored to your interviewing goals. As well as all the in-course exercises to develop your skills, after the course, you’ll carry out a test interview with a guest of your choice and submit it within 7 days for review and feedback, to help you bring your new mix of skills together and identify areas where you can continue to improve.
PRICE: $490 per person (if 2 or more people booked) or $560 per person (for one person).
MEDIA TRAINING
If you’d like to experience receiving media attention, you need to ensure you have a captivating story to tell and the communication skills to deliver it well. We’ll work with you on finding your story angles, shaping your message and improving your presentation and media communication skills to ensure you’re appealing to editors, journalists and producers.
PRICE: Customised based on the level of support you need. Contact us today to discuss.
