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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.

Acquire the tools needed to build a strategic approach to communication planning, and advance diversity, equity and inclusion issues in the public relations profession and workplaces to achieve better public relationship outcomes.

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 practice test covers the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to prepare you for the Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) examination.

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.

Content marketing is one of the most in-demand skill sets needed by today's successful communication professionals. PRSA’s Content Marketing Certificate Program is designed to teach and empower you to develop content strategies and tactics with quantifiable business outcomes.

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.

This comprehensive e-learning course offers in-depth approaches to leveraging key components of marketing, media and advertising to accelerate PR campaign results. Divided into five learning modules, this course will position you to lead integrated marketing communications campaigns from start to finish.

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.

Effective crisis communication can help organizations maintain trust, inspire consumer confidence and build competitive advantage. Recent poorly handled crises in business, government and nonprofits show how ineffective crisis communication can set an organization back significantly.

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.