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Every company should have a crisis handbook

PR in High Definition

One part of this is having a ‘handbook’ of sorts, with clear protocols and practices laid out. Bringing in a PR agency when a crisis occurs is one effective way of getting support and guidance. The post Every company should have a crisis handbook appeared first on Firefly Communications.

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Spotlight on a Solo PR Pro: Meet Doug Levy

Solo PR Pro

He was a frequent contributor to All Things Considered and Morning Edition and ended up as an intern in NPR’s Washington Bureau a year later, gaining extensive industry experience and honing his writing skills. In 2000, he jumped the fence to take a communications-focused role at global PR agency FleishmanHillard.

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Job Descriptions Get No Respect (except this one)

Ishmael's Corner

Yet, most companies churn out job descriptions that sound like they came from the same HR 101 handbook. Every company is fighting competitors for talent. Every company recognizes that first impressions count. The end result.more.

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The 5 Phases of Becoming Crisis Ready

Melissa Agnes

This process is based off of the Crisis Ready Model, which is a model I’ve developed throughout my years of helping organizations—from international corporations, to government agencies around the world, to businesses just like yours—become crisis ready. Determine your current processes of internal escalation.

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The joy of pain – VW, schadenfreude and public relations

PR Conversations

I know how difficult it can be to get information, particularly when you work for a national office of an international operation. It’s not a place where you can call on PR agencies to swoop in like a superhero or ghostbuster to clean up the mess and put things right by the time the credits roll.

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#19: Building a framework for reputation management

NewsWhip

And the reality and what we always train our internal teams on is to understand, and I’m sure this resonates for a lot of your audience, there’s no action we can take these days as companies that can go unnoticed by the media. That is a risk. Now from there, the question is, how’s that risk perceived? It’s not a plan.

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#InspireInclusion Is Nice and All, but What Does It Even Mean?

The Hoffman Agency

As the world approaches another International Women’s Day, we reflect on this year’s theme — #InspireInclusion — and whether it stands up to scrutiny. For example, HR materials, employee handbooks? appeared first on The Hoffman Agency. Have you ever watched the film Miss Congeniality ? Us: OK, no problem. Don’t we all.