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Successful Crisis Management Reaches the Heart Before the Mind

Melissa Agnes

Never underestimate the power of emotion in crisis management. Emotion is often underestimated in crisis management. And yet, it’s one of the most powerful aspects of a crisis. Within a few hours, this panic had escalated to a viral point. Which emotions do you need to pay attention to in a crisis?

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To Improve Crisis-Response Plans, Bring in a Red Team

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In response to a hypothetical breakdown in a company’s supply chain, a red team could simulate a scathing social media post that is meant to go viral. Red teams expose what works, what doesn’t and what needs improvement in a crisis-management strategy. Such exercises invite a diverse array of ideas, opinions and feedback.

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The 5 Phases of Becoming Crisis Ready

Melissa Agnes

Fortunately, there’s a method to this process that can take any organization, of any size, type, and industry, from their current level of crisis readiness, straight through to building an invincible brand—which, as you know, is the ultimate benefit of being crisis ready. Do you conduct regular crisis management exercises?

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How To Identify your Crisis Plan’s Blind Spots

Melissa Agnes

Risk 3: A lack of bandwidth can leave you without a crisis communication home base. If a viral crisis were to strike and hundreds (or more) of people were to navigate to your corporate website for more information, would your website crash due to an overload of traffic? Who should be involved in this exercise?

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How To Identify your Crisis Plan’s Blind Spots

Melissa Agnes

Risk 3: A lack of bandwidth can leave you without a crisis communication home base. If a viral crisis were to strike and hundreds (or more) of people were to navigate to your corporate website for more information, would your website crash due to an overload of traffic? Who should be involved in this exercise?

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10 Crisis Communication Tips Every Business Needs

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Strategic communication during a crisis offers organisations the credibility they need to develop their strategies and re-enter the marketplace in order to provide relevant services to their stakeholders. Who needs crisis communication? So where do you need crisis communication? Managers and supervisors.

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

What I want to do in this post is to look at some best practices around identifying and working through a PR crisis, relying on journal articles where possible to help substantiate points. Identifying a PR crisis. Of course digital media adds an unprecedented speed to a crisis that must be accounted for. Monitoring.

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