Ethical Voices

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Joining me on this week’s episode is Rebecca Wilson , the Executive Vice President International for WE Communications International. While I was a bit under the weather from a cold, Rebecca provided ethics insights on a number of topics, including: . The two things every ethical communicator must embrace.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 15, 2018

Social media has redefined crisis response in three important ways: outlet options, messaging speed and employee engagement. Social media also has compressed the speed of information transfer from hours to minutes or even seconds as a crisis develops. Employee evangelists are made, not born. A Reason to Speak.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 17, 2021

FleishmanHillard Executive Creative Director Dan Margulis had a rather perceptive quote on the findings: “Creativity has always been the way out of crisis…Crisis forced us to act but also freed us to evolve. Six in 10 comms pros face ethical challenges. Top challenges in internal communications.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Tom Mueller, who interviewed over 200 corporate whistleblowers for his book Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud , proclaims this “the age of the whistleblower.”. ” In many companies, especially high-growth technology businesses, there have been different standards of behavior for certain employees.

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Stuart Bruce

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Stuart Bruce speaking at the IATA Crisis Communications in the Social Media Age conference. (c) This morning I gave a keynote at the global ‘Crisis Communications in the Social Media Age’ conference in Istanbul. We’ll look at ethics and governance. The first and foremost for me is ethics and governance.

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PRSay

MARCH 7, 2022

That is the question individuals and organizations are asking throughout the world as a devastating humanitarian crisis unfolds in Ukraine. What are your employees saying? Listen to what is being talked about internally, and let this help shape your priorities and influence your messaging. How can we help?

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Melissa Agnes

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Today’s crisis realities present some of the biggest challenges and obstacles to be faced in a crisis or emergency. In fact, if you aren’t prepared, today’s crisis realities will work against you , rather than for you, in a crisis – making your task of effective crisis management extremely difficult.

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 1, 2014

Editor’s Note: Rick Amme is a talented crisis management professional who, after decades of being “in the game”, has decided to embark on his next life adventure: retirement. Crisis Management Advice from a Retiring Pro. Most solutions are internal. Crisis management principles aren’t immutable.).

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The Hoffman Agency

DECEMBER 13, 2023

When you decide to oust and then reinstate your CEO, a little comms planning can help avoid a descent into chaos (source: Shutterstock) Though the headlines provided nail-biting entertainment, it’s quite literally a guideline for how to fail at communications and create your own crisis in a matter of days.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

said panelist Helio Fred Garcia, executive director of the Logos Institute for Crisis Management and Executive Leadership, and a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. In the latter case, “you’ve got to be careful not to escalate internal conflict and create this silent, resentful minority” in your workforce.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Tom Mueller, who interviewed over 200 corporate whistleblowers for his book Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud , proclaims this “the age of the whistleblower.”. Just two months ago, luggage company Away grappled with reputation stumbles after employees shared internal messages that unpacked a punitive workplace culture.

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Prohibition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Any company, big or small, can experience a crisis. According to research, about 75 percent of companies will experience a crisis at some point due to the increasing complexity of modern business and the growth of social media in our fast-paced world. This is where crisis management comes in. What is Crisis Management?

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5W PR

JUNE 24, 2019

The modern-day news cycle means that industry stories don’t stay under wraps for long, and for many brands, it is only a matter of time before they find themselves dealing with one form of PR crisis or another. Adopt Internal Safeguards. The post Essential Rules for Preventing a PR Crisis appeared first on 5W PR.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 1, 2021

Communications professionals often get involved when a crisis arises, but this is too late! Developing a Corporate Digital Responsibility governance framework To address CDR risk organisations need to develop a framework, underpinned by ethical values, to describe their management of data.

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Reputation Specialist Michael Toebe

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Holmes’ errors in judgment, ethics, risk management and decisions are well known. Holmes and Theranos, like other leaders and organizations, helped dig their own grave, so to speak, by encouraging employees to speak out against wrongdoing. Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes. The fall has also come at high velocity.

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Ethical Voices

JUNE 13, 2022

She discusses a number of important ethics issues including: The ethical importance knowing when to saying “No”. How to empower your employees to make tough ethical decisions. The biggest ethical challenge for me sometimes is you need to say no. The blurring of paid and owned media. I feel very, very fortunate.

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5W PR

JANUARY 31, 2024

Crisis Management PR: Addresses and mitigates potential damage to a tech company’s reputation during challenging situations or crises. It’s important to have a plan in place before a crisis might arise. This is especially effective for consumer technology products.

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Maxim Behar

JANUARY 24, 2022

His first graduation was from Prague University on International Economic Relations. Although jumped into Public Relations, he did not realize that it’s nothing but pure unique business surrounded by creativity, ethics, and responsibilities. Everything transparent is ethical! We serve what customers deserve i.e;

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Deirdre Breakenridge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

We were able to identify 6 management oriented roles associated with social media (social listening and analytics, online media relations, policy maker, employee recruiter, internal social media manager, and policing) and the specific duties those roles involve. My current research is focused on ethics and internal communication.

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PR Conversations

MAY 3, 2016

Following the financial crisis in 2008, management thinkers and others have rightly questioned the role of business leaders in society. Often fingers point at business schools, regarding their failure to incorporate ethics into programmes. It seems that shareholder greed trumps employee and common interests. By Dr Kevin Ruck.

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Sword and the Script

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Propel releases AI-based “media war room”; Muck Rack has AI recommending reporters to PR; PRophet partners to bring influencer marketing and media alerts; Did you know Gartner has a Market Guide for Employee Communications? Generative AI may get all the attention these days, but it’s not the only “kind” of AI.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 5, 2019

On closer examination, the Edelman/GEO Group situation is a great example of what not to do when faced with an ethical quandary. Surely it would have foreseen the possibility of staff misgivings and considered the internal and external ramifications of the decision. But that’s not what happened. That’s so not what happened.

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Melissa Agnes

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Today’s crisis realities present some of the biggest challenges and obstacles to be faced in a crisis or emergency. In fact, if you aren’t prepared, today’s crisis realities will work against you , rather than for you, in a crisis – making your task of effective crisis management extremely difficult.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

That’s the unhappy fate of James Henderson, the former CEO of now-defunct PR and crisis management powerhouse Bell Pottinger. When it was called out for crossing ethical lines by using false propaganda and fake grassroots in 2011, Bell Pottinger blasted critics but apparently never saw fit to police its methods.

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Reputation Specialist Michael Toebe

JULY 14, 2022

Chau recognizes Tesla's management deficiencies and what needs to be done: responsibly raise standards of thinking and behavior within the organization and make critical improvements to governance and compliance in regards to workplace culture, respect employees and provide psychological safety.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 1, 2022

.” In open-ended comments, respondents cite digital, internal comms and a greater focus on comms by leadership as among the underlying reasons. Some of those comments include the following: “Significantly more related to internal comms and recruiting.”. A mix of internal and external resources. Blog: Code of PR Ethics?

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Newsfile

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What are the Basics of Crisis Communication Planning? Crisis communication planning involves preparing for unexpected events that could harm an organization’s reputation. Effective crisis communication ensures transparency, empathy, and timely responses. Brand advocates include customers, employees, and influencers.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Focusing on internal communications allows me to help my organization and clients build their brands. If our employees aren’t sold on our brand promise, how can they deliver it to customers and guests? Employee communications practitioners, by their very definition, have a focused audience. Who’s affected by this dilemma.

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Stuart Bruce

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Amazon is the latest big company to use modernised crisis communications to rebut attacks in mainstream media. This was no rapid rebuttal piece, but instead a carefully researched take down of the credibility of the New York Times reporters and the ex-Amazon employees they had used as sources.

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PR Conversations

MAY 1, 2017

The following is the result of our subsequent shared musings concerning the impact of crisis situations on the health and well-being of public relations practitioners. In an ongoing crisis, operating on adrenaline for a prolonged period of time can be – and is often – physically and mentally harmful.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

A sudden crisis can be an externally driven event that is entirely unpredictable, like the death of a chief executive or an accident by a business partner. Or a crisis can strike closer to home; it can be a rogue employee action or supplier lapse in a single region that affects an entire brand, like the Chipotle E.

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PR in High Definition

JULY 21, 2020

Six former employees of eBay possibly took these messages as direct instructions and all have been arrested. Some might question the integrity of a CEO or a company that would ever allow this sort of behaviour to happen, with so many ex-employees possibly involved. How has eBay responded so far? Where was the CEO in all this?

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Stern + Associates

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

As we navigate various transitions over the coming months and years, leaders are likely to see employees struggle with anxiety, depression, burnout and trauma. When organizations invest in mental health, it’s better for employees and better for business. Addressing the Student Mental Health Crisis. Make It Fearless.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 7, 2022

Scale to compete with incumbents; Prowly adds media monitoring; Cision releases internal DE&I report; World’s First-Ever NFT Press Release. I took a business ethics course when I was studying for my MBA. It said these deals were bad for customers, bad for employees, and often bad for investors (LPs, not the fund managers).

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Sword and the Script

JANUARY 3, 2023

This can include the media, customers, employees, and the general public. Crisis management: When an organization faces a crisis, PR practitioners may work to minimize the damage to the organization’s reputation by managing the flow of information and communicating with the public. What is public relations?

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Stern + Associates

JANUARY 6, 2022

Navigating the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Recently named Dean of the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University, Howard specializes in developing robotic and AI technologies that improve our daily home, life and work interactions, while addressing ethical concerns when deploying these systems to serve society.

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PR in High Definition

JULY 31, 2020

Six former employees of eBay possibly took these messages as direct instructions and all have been arrested. Some might question the integrity of a CEO or a company that would ever allow this sort of behaviour to happen, with so many ex-employees possibly involved. How has eBay responded so far? Where was the CEO in all this?

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