MAKE SMARTER VIDEOS WITH YOUR SMARTPHONE ?

We’re delighted to introduce a new two-day course on how to shoot and edit videos using your smartphone.

In this interactive workshop you will learn the practical skills needed to make professional videos with your mobile or tablet. And you will discover how to mix sounds, add credits and titles and upload your video to the web or social media.

The training, led by experienced journalist, cameraman and video coach Hervé Verloes, is light on theory and heavy on practice. It’s also great fun.

Check out the full two-day programme and sign up to take smarter videos with us.

NEW MENU, NEW COURSES

Thanks to all of you who filled out our survey on what new courses you’d like us to provide in 2018. Here are a few takeaways:

• You want us to focus on concrete, practical skills like learning how to use Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
• Keeping up with ever-changing social media trends is essential. You want specific workshops on using LinkedIn and Twitter professionally and in the next few months we’ll be adding these and other new social media courses.
• In addition to media and communication training you’d like us to provide more strategic communication advice. We already run communication campaigns for clients and organise press trips. In future we will offer more advice on crafting messages, social media campaigning and video storytelling.

NOT SO SOCIAL MEDIA 

We don’t like being nasty to our good friends in the European Commission. But if they want to better connect with European citizens they need to up their social media game. Take this tweet above. It is stuffed with incomprehensible jargon, contains an ugly graphic that only confuses readers and makes a lame attempt at being lyrical with its Sleeping Beauty reference.

We know how hard up EU officials are. So with a genuine desire to see better communication about the European Union’s actions, we’re offering a FREE course on how to tweet to EU civil servants. If interested, just send us an email and we’ll try and arrange it.

FIDDLY FORMS, FABULOUS FEEDBACK 

We know nobody likes filling out feedback forms at the end of training sessions. But your suggestions are invaluable to us as we constantly strive to improve the quality of the coaching we give. Not that there’s much wrong at present, it seems.

Based on over 300 feedback forms filled in between 2015-17, we had a 93% approval rate for our trainers and 90% for our courses – which sounds suspiciously like the sort of backing North Korea presidents get!

Thanks to our great trainers for their quality coaching – and to you for filling out those damn forms! ?

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