Training in communication skills and personal development
Not just facts, but skills that last.
You'll find a wide range of training topics including public speaking, writing, negotiation, investigative interviewing, resilience, team building, emotional intelligence, customer service and working with the news media.
Check the conference speakers page for a speaker for your next event. See the books section for ideas to help make you an outstanding communicator.
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'100% top quality workshop.'
'Inspirational. So simple and effective.'
'Excellent. Stretched me without threatening me. Involved and stretched us all.'
'The best course of any kind I have attended.'
'Great course. I saw a difference in everyone who attended.'
'Great session. Very useful, practical tools, delivered well.'
'Enjoyed it hugely. I now feel considerably more confident.'
'I was challenged in a safe environment.'
'Extremely well presented. Simply outlined and easily understood, yet challenging too.'
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About Media Associates
Media Associates focuses on communication skills and personal skills for professional development - soft skills with hard outcomes.
Our company was founded in 1985. We are based in Christchurch and Wellington - and train and speak to conferences everywhere.
Training to match your organisation's needs
Choose from in-house training, our scheduled 'open' workshops and coaching.
Whatever your choice, your staff won't be just sitting and listening.
It'll be active learning.
They'll be trying new ideas and methods, with individual feedback from a supportive workshop leader.
There's something else.
It's your training. Certainly, take advantage of the methods we've developed and tested over many years, but your in-house training programme must match your needs. Let's talk. We will design the training especially for your team - including activities and examples from the work they do every day.
If you have fewer than five people for training, you might want to consider our list of scheduled open workshops in Wellington and Christchurch.
The most effective training in the shortest possible time
Effective training does take time, but let's reduce that time by focusing on the real differences between average performers and the world's best.
Our brains retain much more when we focus on skills, not just facts.It's not what your staff hear that counts, it's what they remember and use after the workshop. Let's develop their skills, not just give them facts.
We'll show them simple, practical methods to turn new ideas
into action.
For instance, participants in presentation and news media skills training come away with a 'personal performance key'. Those who learn writing with us leave with a simple writing and editing system. Participants in our investigative interviewing training learn the PEACE method - another five-step process. Those who learn resilience with us leave with a four-step method for developing a particular kind of optimism that will also make them more motivated, persistent and healthy.
Many of the methods are not available elsewhere.
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Contact us today to find out how we can help you with your next training event. Send us a message, or call us on 0800 86 87 24 (if you are in New Zealand) or on + 64 3 365 3164 (if you are calling from outside New Zealand).