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Your communications team is a master of their domain. However, you need them to go beyond being great communicators — you need dynamic employees trained to look around corners, consider holistic enterprise goals and keep an eye on the bigger picture. In short, you need them to think like a CEO.

Designed as an on-demand certificate of completion program, PRSA’s Advanced Crisis Communication Certificate Program will equip communicators with an easy to-use framework to plan for foreseeable crises, as well as prepare you to communicate quickly when the unforeseen occurs.

In this fresh take on advanced IMC techniques, learn how to incorporate newer trends like storytelling, influencer marketing and AI into your integration strategies and tactics to help create a seamless, transparent journey for every audience.

This series will provide you with key concepts that will enable you to be effective in assisting your clients, improve your own ability to be well-informed from reputable, standards-based sources and better recognize when we are being influenced or manipulated.

Join us for this webinar as we explore how PR and communication professionals are crucial in helping organizations to build a "crisis ready" culture, leveraging both internal and external communication tools while preserving business continuity.

In this Case In Point, we will be looking at the use of AI for the analysis of human communications — how can communicators best use the technology in their job, and what are the pitfalls to avoid?

This eye-opening Case in Point will show how brands like BMW, Transamerica and Charter apply this science to exponentially increase PR and communication outcomes. Whether in your first year of PR or a seasoned practitioner, this Case in Point will leave you with an entirely new framework through which to consider how you communicate.

Participants of this Case in Point will learn how to set organizations up for success before they are faced with misinformation as well as help them navigate through a disinformation crisis.

Join a New York Times reporter, top communications executive and leading national PR agency for the release of a new survey about what journalists want in today’s new landscape.

Communications technology, or commtech, is not new, but it is still vastly underutilized or ineffectively utilized among the strategic communications profession. Learn how to leverage commtech into campaign planning, reputation monitoring, crisis planning and more.

This dynamic skills-based program will empower managers, team leaders and supervisors to achieve high-performance performance every day, through effective, consistent workplace communication based on emerging management best practices.

Join this PRSA Learning Webinar where we will discuss the types of cultures that exist in organizations, key points to remember about personal identity, and how that information can be used to build a meaningful employee engagement program.

Most PR pros send pitches that are destined to fail. If your pitch arrives like everyone else’s, it’ll be treated like everyone else’s — it’ll be ignored. In this course, you’ll see how to craft a pitch that gets noticed and gain tools to become a master of the cold email pitch. Discover skills that go beyond the reach of an average PR pro. Effectively measure what you do so your client/employer knows what they’re getting from your efforts.

Popular media pitching coach Michael Smart sees hundreds of successful pitches a year from all industries. From that perch he can tell you what today's time-starved journalists are responding to NOW, and what pitfalls to avoid.

This comprehensive e-learning course teaches communicators how to use integration as a powerful tool in any communications practice. This five-hour course provides a review of integrated marketing concepts, followed by ways to learn about your specific audiences, develop integrated strategies and tactics that work together to boost results, and effectively manage your work in a planned, synchronous fashion.

Whether giving performance feedback, managing an unpredictable client or addressing others’ harmful comments, critical conversations can keep us up at night and cause anxiety. Join this webinar to get practical tools for handling critical conversations.

Join this webinar to learn how you can set yourself up for success with the Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) credential and showcase your professional competencies.

Equip yourself with best practices within digital content strategy, personas, digital storytelling, writing for SEO and the web, digital innovation, and the measurement of digital communication.

Join this webinar to learn how communications professionals can harness AI and data to inform strategy on reputation and the wider business.

In this webinar, we will come together to talk about how our workplaces and PRSA can achieve diversity and inclusion goals by uncovering our own implicit biases, building diverse teams and recognizing the value and strengths in cultures we consider different.