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At Evocatus Media, we offer a comprehensive suite of media training services designed to equip individuals and organisations with the skills necessary to excel in today’s fast-paced communication environment. Drawing on our unique blend of experience from the BBC and the military, we provide tailored programs that meet your specific needs and objectives. Our hands-on, practical approach ensures you gain the confidence and capabilities required to navigate any media scenario with ease.

Bringing Scenarios to Life

Overview:

Evocatus Media are experts at creating engaging media and live events, bringing scenario simulations to life in an environment that will enable your team to develop essential skills and confidence. Our comprehensive media training programs focus on practical, hands-on experience, ensuring that your team can effectively communicate your message under any circumstances.

Key Components:

Scenario Simulations: Bring simulations to life in a controlled environment to prepare your team for real-world situations.

Skill Development: Enable your team to develop essential skills and build confidence through immersive training.

Practical, Hands-On Experience: Focus on real-world applications and scenarios to ensure practical, actionable learning.

Tailored Training Programs: Customised training programs to meet the unique needs and goals of your organisation.

Talking to Camera Training

Overview:

Terrified in front of a camera? Fear not! We’ll turn you from a gibbering wreck into a class act in just five days! 🙂

Key Components:

Confidence Building: Overcome camera anxiety with techniques and exercises designed to boost your confidence and delivery in front of the lens.

Effective Messaging: Learn to craft and deliver clear, concise, and compelling messages that resonate with your audience and keep you on point.

Body Language and Vocal Delivery: Master the art of non-verbal communication and vocal techniques to appear natural, confident, and engaging on camera.

Practice and Feedback: Engage in extensive on-camera practice sessions with constructive feedback to refine your performance and ensure continuous improvement.

Simulated Newsroom

Overview:

Our team of writers, media producers and presenters will develop your team through immersive scenarios, tailored to your individual requirements and learning objectives.

Key Components:

Realistic Newsroom Environment: Experience the fast-paced dynamics of a newsroom, simulating real-world pressures and deadlines to enhance your team’s adaptability.

Tailored Scenarios: Engage in customised scenarios that reflect your specific industry challenges and learning goals, ensuring relevant and practical training.

Collaborative Exercises: Foster teamwork and effective communication through collaborative exercises that mirror actual newsroom practises and workflows.

Performance Analysis and Feedback: Receive detailed analysis and constructive feedback from media professionals to refine skills and improve overall performance.

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MILITARY TECHNIQUES FOR THE CIVILIAN WORLD

The idea behind Evocatus was born on the prairies of Alberta, in Western Canada. The British Army Training Unit, Suffield, is where the British Army trains its heaviest and fastest-moving forces, and in 2011 that training had reached unparalleled levels of complexity, as we prepared units to deploy on operations in Afghanistan. To support training for the thousands of troops in the training audience we provided a complete live simulation, including a Higher HQ to provide orders and direction, a conventional enemy force, an insurgent force, a Pashtun-speaking civilian population, helicopters, journalists and horrific simulated casualties. Behind the exercising troops was a large team of observers, whose job was to capture evidence of what happened in each scenario; this, combined with radio recordings and GPS tracking of everything that took place was turned into After Action Reviews, which we used to help the training audience recognise the strengths and weaknesses in their performance.

Having learned to design and plan live exercises on this scale within defence, it was an obvious progression to the idea of running similar (usually less complex) exercises for the business world to build and train teams, test contingency plans and help to identify risks.

Although we love live exercises in the fresh air, we do recognise that sometimes more can be achieved through bringing exercises indoors and turning them into games, getting people engaged using game design methods developed by the hobby industry and by the film and TV industry. We’ve also recognised that the engagement we can achieve through interactive games is crucial for communicating dry or complicated issues, most effectively at the start point for change management programmes, where cultural changes are required.

We help organisations to think, communicate and train through games and exercises, from simple tabletop games to solve problems and devise strategies through to realistic scenario simulations. We specialise in scenario based team building across the South West.

We work with a global network of like-minded allies, with whom we deliver a bespoke, world-class service anywhere in the world.

EVOCATUS: VETERAN

Evocatus is the Latin word for Veteran. In Ancient Rome, most soldiers served a single term and then retired with a pension. Some, however, chose to sign up for a further term, becoming truly professional soldiers, from whom officers, including the famous Centurions, would be drawn. These men were the Evocati; literally, those who had been called to serve. When we were first setting out into the civilian world, Evocatus seemed an appropriate name for a company whose mission is to apply experience as military trainers and leaders in the business world.