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Public Relations Management

A practical professional programme focused on public relations management, designed to strengthen communication, media capability and stakeholder engagement.

Type
Professional
Level
Intermediate
Duration
5 days
Delivery
In person, Live online, In-house
Languages
English, Arabic

Public Relations Management develops the practical capability to plan, coordinate and evaluate public-relations activities that support organisational communication and stakeholder relationships.

The programme examines PR objectives, stakeholder analysis, messaging, media relations, campaigns, events, reputation, issues management and performance measurement.

Participants learn how to manage public relations as a planned organisational function rather than a collection of isolated publicity activities.

Objectives

  • Understand the core responsibilities of public-relations management.

  • Develop structured stakeholder and communication planning.

  • Improve media relations and message development.

  • Coordinate PR campaigns and activities effectively.

  • Measure and improve public-relations performance.

Learning outcomes

  • Develop practical PR objectives and plans.

  • Identify and prioritise relevant stakeholders.

  • Create clear messages for different audiences.

  • Manage routine media and public-relations activities.

  • Evaluate PR outputs and outcomes using appropriate measures.

Who it is for

  • Public-relations professionals.

  • Communications officers.

  • Media-relations professionals.

  • Marketing and corporate-communications staff.

  • Managers responsible for organisational PR activities.

Programme modules

1. Public Relations Foundations
  • Role of public relations

  • PR objectives

  • Organisational reputation

  • PR management process

2. Stakeholder Analysis
  • Stakeholder identification

  • Influence and interest

  • Audience priorities

  • Engagement approaches

3. Message Development
  • Key messages

  • Audience adaptation

  • Message consistency

  • Evidence and credibility

4. Media Relations
  • Media mapping

  • Press materials

  • Journalist engagement

  • Media enquiries

5. PR Campaigns and Activities
  • Campaign planning

  • Events

  • Content and channels

  • Coordination and implementation

6. PR Measurement and Review
  • Outputs and outcomes

  • Media coverage

  • Stakeholder response

  • Performance improvement

Methodology

The programme combines PR-planning frameworks, stakeholder exercises, message-development tasks and media-relations scenarios. Participants develop practical communication plans and evaluate PR activity.

Assessment

Assessment includes stakeholder and PR-planning exercises and a final applied task requiring participants to prepare a structured public-relations plan for a defined organisational objective.

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

For your organisation

This programme can be delivered for a single organisation, team or institution, and adapted to your context, participants and objectives.

Organisational delivery is scoped and priced individually, and is not booked from this page.

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Upcoming sessions

No dates are scheduled at present.

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Structured professional learning that develops practical, role-relevant knowledge and capability.

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