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Section: A
Interpersonal Media
Media relations is a large component of the public relations discipline and your interpersonal
skills play a large role in building, fostering and maintaining a beneficial relationship with the
media. That success contributes to the overall success of your public relations plan and
embodies the basic definition of public relations as described by the Public Relations Society
of America: Public relations is a strategic communication process that builds mutually
beneficial relationships between organizations and their publics.
Media Relations
Effective media relations endeavours enable you to get scope for your association that precisely
and positively mirrors the issues you present to the media. The media need to believe you and
trust they will get some advantage from the relationship. These attributes originate from your
relational correspondences with the media. For instance, if a columnist hears talk about your
organization and you have constructed a solid association with him, he will probably get in
touch with you to get your announcement and report it since he assumes that you will genuinely
answer his inquiry.
Relationship Building
Interpersonal Skills
The relational aptitudes you have to apply to your media relations program work at each phase
of your association with the media. You should be reliable in your dealings with the media, for
example, how rapidly you return calls. Ensure your correspondence incorporates tuning in and
also talking, looking, and keeping your discussions brief to be aware of their chance. Guarantee
the media to whom you are pitching are the ones who are covering your industry. Lastly, be
helpful; for instance, have the best qualified individuals accessible for them to meet.
Common Benefit
Your relational correspondence should prompt a media relations program that is of shared
advantage. You realize that your association stands to pick up from positive media scope,
however the media need to assume that the data you give will bear some significance with their
gatherings of people, that you will regard their due dates and that you will keep any
understandings made, for example, giving them first chance to hear a critical declaration.
Types of Interpersonal Communication
1. Verbal communication.
2. Written communication.
We can communicate with our friends and colleagues either formally or informally in
writing. We can interact with others using text messages in a spontaneous and informal context,
or we can sit down and write a long and much-edited letter to them. Whatever suits the context!
Our gestures and our body language can enable us to communicate with others (whether we
want to or not) without us having to say or to write a single word.
4. Lip reading.
If you can read peoples lips, you will be able to interact with them without sound. You will
even be able to decipher what they are saying during a noisy party when the hubbub makes it
difficult for other people to communicate verbally.
5. Dancing.
Whether you are dancing for fun with friends or whether you are professional dancer who
interprets complex emotions through bodily movements, there is no denying that dancing is a
positive, physical way to interact with others.
6. Giving gifts.
Giving someone a gift is a superb way of showing that you care about them, and
communicating in a way that can often be more powerful than words. If you give a gift of
flowers, moreover, you can use the so called language of flowers (the idea that each flower
has a specific meaning) to communicate to friends and loved ones. A thoughtful gift is a
brilliant, wordless, way to communicate so many different positive emotions.
7. Subtle signs.
Sometimes all that is needed is a slightly raised eyebrow or a pursed mouth and we can
communicate volumes. Facial expressions, slight gestures and other very subtle signs are all
ways of communicating with others that humans use very often. These subtle signs are often
used alongside other forms of communication, such as speech, dance or gift giving.
3. Expressing our emotions through facial expressions: a subtle way of communication with
others. We can say one thing with our words, but express something different through our facial
expressions.
4. Sign language: many members of the deaf community communicate using sign language
which comes in many forms. British Sign Language (BSL) and American Sign Language
(ASL) are just two examples of these.
5. Writing an email: communicating with friends and others via email is something many of
us do every day. Editing emails to get our words just right can also make our communications
clearer and more concise.
6. Chatting with a group at a party: this is an informal and fun type of communicating. Tone
of voice, gesture and words all work together here to enable people to communicate.
7. Giving and receiving instructions: on trains, in the workplace, giving directions to visitors
to our town, and reading the instructions leaflet for a new appliance are all examples of this.
8. Body language during a job interview: the way we sit or stand can communicate a lot
about our state of mind. Sitting with our arms open rather than folded, for example, and our
hands visible, demonstrates that we are in an open and honest state of mind.
10. Sending a text message: text messaging or using similar messaging services such as
WhatsApp is another spontaneous way of communicating with people in writing. This type
of messaging can often have many of the elements of a conversation between a groups of people
talking in the same room though in fact all of the interlocutors can be scattered throughout
the globe.