Getting
Ready
for Your
Close-up
Last Thursday, three suggestions introduced you to how to begin preparing for a sane, successful experience in the limelight. Today, the challenge is to remember to stay away from these 10 negatives if you are to be a shining star.
On Point Workshops' Top 10 Media Negatives
1. Lack of preparation regarding the following elements:
Legal Issues, Media Relations,
Mental/Physical Stresses, Environmental/Location Concerns,
Long-, Short-term Consequences, and Crisis Planning
2. Believing you can control or manipulate the media without paying a price.
3. Going “off the record” believing it will not come back to bite you.
4. Assuming the media is there to make you look good.
5. Assuming the media will abandon its own intentions or perspective
for your sake or concerns.
6. Acting in any way that is less than professional for the given situation.
7. Thinking what you say or do is more, or less, important than what
someone else says or does. (If you do not know the media’s intentions
you will not know the importance of your role in its process.)
8. Talking too much.
9. Forgetting about context and the fact that your words or actions are heard
or seen in context only once, in most cases, and out of context relentlessly.
10 Bringing a negative mindset and attitude to media situations.
Continue building a list of professional advisors and personal supporters you can call on in a pinch. Take nothing personally. Stay in the moment, and remember this timeless truth:
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
Mark Twain
©2008 Adele Hodge/Write Light
On Point Workshops' Top 10 Media Negatives
1. Lack of preparation regarding the following elements:
Legal Issues, Media Relations,
Mental/Physical Stresses, Environmental/Location Concerns,
Long-, Short-term Consequences, and Crisis Planning
2. Believing you can control or manipulate the media without paying a price.
3. Going “off the record” believing it will not come back to bite you.
4. Assuming the media is there to make you look good.
5. Assuming the media will abandon its own intentions or perspective
for your sake or concerns.
6. Acting in any way that is less than professional for the given situation.
7. Thinking what you say or do is more, or less, important than what
someone else says or does. (If you do not know the media’s intentions
you will not know the importance of your role in its process.)
8. Talking too much.
9. Forgetting about context and the fact that your words or actions are heard
or seen in context only once, in most cases, and out of context relentlessly.
10 Bringing a negative mindset and attitude to media situations.
Continue building a list of professional advisors and personal supporters you can call on in a pinch. Take nothing personally. Stay in the moment, and remember this timeless truth:
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
Mark Twain
©2008 Adele Hodge/Write Light