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4 Four Tips to Begin (or Amplify) Your Crisis Management Career

PRSay

Whether a disaster impacts your company or an organizational issue disrupts your workplace’s ability to function as it should, well-mapped-out communication strategies should be structured to embrace the nuances of internal and external audiences. Participate in reflective dialogue.

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When Designing Controls Around Your Crisis Communications, Don’t Do This!

Melissa Agnes

One of the challenges of communicating effectively in times of viral issue and crisis management is ensuring that your brand’s communications are consistent across every stakeholder group, region and department. Crisis communication is complex, dynamic and critically important to get right.

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Three Steps to Successful Crisis Communication

Melissa Agnes

Crisis communication is one of the most important aspects of your crisis management. In fact, whom you communicate with in a crisis, along with when and how you communicate with them, can mean the difference between successful crisis management and crisis management failure.

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Why HR Should Have a Seat at the Crisis Management Table

Melissa Agnes

But while external communications are typically top of mind in a crisis (at least for the organizations with a mindset on communication), there is an equally important stakeholder group that is often overlooked when it comes to crisis management: the internal stakeholders. Let’s take a look.

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WhatsApp As An Ebola Crisis Communication Strategy

Melissa Agnes

I’m always on the look out for new ways to leverage social media and mobile technology for crisis management. Listen: TCIP #020 – Managing The Ebola Crisis With Bill Boyd. How to determine what social channels to use for crisis communication. Case Studies Crisis Communication'

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What To Look For When Engaging a Crisis Management Professional

Melissa Agnes

When you hire a crisis management professional or firm, whether prior to or during a crisis, expectations of both parties need to be clear. Surprises are not something you want to experience while managing a crisis, the crisis will present you with enough of those on its own! Emotional intelligence.

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5 “Must Include” Items for your Crisis Management Plan

Melissa Agnes

I often get asked the following question: What should we include in our organization’s crisis management plan? 5 important elements to include in your crisis plan. The crisis management levels that all incidents should be categorized into. 3- Pre-approved crisis communication strategy and messaging.