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About Media Associates

Media Associates focuses on communication skills and 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.

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What makes Media Associates training different?
  • Learn skills, not just facts.

  • Focus on the real differences between average performers and the world's best.

  • Learn methods that are easy to use and remember.

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Surprisingly easily. We've spent more than 20 years developing, adapting and refining simple, practical methods that will give your team a real focus as they continue to use their skills.

For instance, those who learn writing with us leave with a simple writing and editing system.

Participants in presentation and news media skills training come away with a 'personal performance key'.

Participants in our investigative interviewing training learn the PEACE method - a five-step process.

Those who learn resilience with us leave with methods for developing a particular kind of optimism and to make them stress-hardy.

And, of course, it's active learning, in groups small enough for everyone to try out new ideas and receive individual feedback.

 

Contact Media Associates

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).

Media Associates Level 4, 77 Hereford Street Cnr Hereford Street/Oxford Terrace P O Box 1142 Christchurch and P O Box 58024 Wellington NEW ZEALAND.