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S&T Live Recap: For Southwest Airlines, a Complex Crisis Required a ‘Thoughtful Communication Plan’

PRSay

“Whenever we get into any crisis moment, the guiding principles for us are compassion and action,” said Linda Rutherford, chief administration and communications officer for Southwest Airlines. We needed to be sure that we had good information getting out to our employees, so that they, in turn, could educate customers,” she said. “We

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Can PR Take Ownership Of Reputation?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Few corporate CEOs will deny that a company’s reputation colors every aspect of business, including marketing, talent recruitment, employee relations, shareholder relations, and the customer experience. Case in point: the 2017 United Airlines fiasco in which a passenger was violently removed from his seat. In fact, the 2017 U.S.

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Crisis Management Lessons From Boeing’s 737 Max Disasters

PRSay

5 webinar “Crisis Management on an International Stage: Takeaways from Boeing’s Biggest Crisis and Time Spent in the West Wing.”. The airlines themselves have to return their fleets to service. On communicating with employees during the crisis: We want to communicate to employees first, before communicating to the outside world.

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Wrap Up Post from Issues Management Workshop at #CPRS2014

Melissa Agnes

However, as we saw with the case of Phonedog vs. Kravitz there is risk in allowing employees to tweet from their own accounts, or tweet from accounts that have their name + your organization’s name in the handle. Can You Sue Former Employees for Social Media Accounts?

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Diversity, Politics and MBAs in the Business of PR; Off Script #20: James S. Walker

Sword and the Script

He’s my guest for this latest interview in the Off Script series. See these related interviews: The Interim CMO as Change Agent; Off Script #19: Sophie Shiatis. What do you think is the role of internal communications in this polarizing environment? . 5) You seem to do a lot of international work. Meet James S.

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Leading Healthy Teams: Lessons from Leadercast 2019 for Solo PR Pros

Solo PR Pro

Unstoppable Cultures continues the mission Ginger Hardage began during her time as Senior Vice President of Culture and Communications at Southwest Airlines where she cultivated the airline’s trademark internal and external culture: “We put people first, we treat customers like family, we nurture our culture, and we try to change ahead of the times.”

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Top 11 PR Crises in 2020 So Far

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He also went on to explain, as did This Morning hosts Holly & Phil, that the government refused to do any press interviews to discuss the matter. The next communication that employees received was from their boss encouraging them to take jobs at Tesco if they wished to do so. Makes no sense.’. Absolute state of it.

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