Fields of activity
PR core tasks
- Analysis, strategy, conception: performing situation and opinion analyses, preparing strength/weakness profiles, defining objectives, developing strategies and concepts to achieve these.
- Contact, consultancy, negotiation: constructive dialogues with superiors and clients, negotiations with service providers, communication and discussions with representatives of groups relevant in society, e.g. politicians and journalists
- Text and creative design: processing and designing information, e.g. press releases, brochures and online communication
- Implementation: taking decisions, planning measures, calculating costs, setting time frames
- Operational implementation: running events and projects of any kind, active press relations, positioning management, internal communication, corporate publishing, etc.
- Evaluation: monitoring the success of measures, analysing their effectiveness, preparing measures of optimisation
PR disciplines
(Examples without claiming to be exhaustive):
- Press relations: writing and distributing press releases, responding to press requests, organising press conferences, organising journalist trips, interviews, internet activities
- Media design: preparing business reports, brochures, flyers, newsletters, consumer magazines, internet pages
- Event organisation: planning and carrying out conferences, seminars, festivals, consumer events and others
- Internal communication: staff magazines, planning and putting on staff events, staff training, maintaining the intranet, setting the agenda for the company
- Participation in associations and committees as company representatives
- Training: media training, training of argumentative skills, advanced training
- Sponsoring: negotiating performance-oriented agreements in the fields of sports, culture, social affairs, environment and science
- Special PR: investor relations, product PR, public affairs, lobbying, CSR, crisis PR, issue management, etc.