I love workshops that
begin with people telling me that they don’t
really have the time to be there, and finish with them asking
me to ‘make it longer next time please’.
I’m on my way home from
New Delhi, where I was running another two-day
Research Communications workshop, this time for researchers
involved in one of the Global Development Network’s global research projects
looking at Public Expenditure Monitoring (PEM).
CommsConsult is, happily,
a regular provider of training
workshops for GDN’s network of southern researchers, having
delivered Policy Influence training for AERC researchers on Africa-China trade,
and Presentational training workshops for its Awards and Medals finalists
before the annual conference.
Here at CommsConsult, we’re game to take on most challenges…For the second year in a row, we were asked to run a Simulation Exercise for keen first-year journalism students at our local University*.
The purpose of the exercise is to introduce rookie journalists to the cut-and-thrust of a Press Conference, and to encourage them to unearth the story behind the official statements, and to interrogate the dark and dodgy corners that often lurk behind a story.
Our team, of course, was there to provide substance to the dark and dodgy corners….
I love workshops that
begin with people telling me that they 
Here at CommsConsult, we’re game to take on most challenges…For the second year in a row, we were asked to run a Simulation Exercise for keen first-year journalism students at our local University*. 
