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

PRSay

JUNE 7, 2021

Organizations are only as strong as how they respond in moments of crisis. This myopic mindset can shut out constructive feedback and imperil organizations — making it imperative to identify shortfalls in a crisis response plan before its flawed protocols become embedded in every level of the organization.

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What Does Being Crisis Ready Have To Do With Brand Invincibility?

Melissa Agnes

MARCH 13, 2018

If you follow my work, then you know that helping organizations become crisis ready is not just what I do professionally, but it is one of my biggest passions. The typical act of crisis preparedness looks something like this: An organization tasks a department or small team of people to create a crisis management plan.

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The 5 Phases of Becoming Crisis Ready

Melissa Agnes

MARCH 6, 2018

Becoming crisis ready is a process. 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.

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How To Identify your Crisis Plan’s Blind Spots

Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Don’t think your crisis plan has blind spots? Let me throw three common crisis scenarios at you and you can reflect on whether or not your team is prepared for each of them – and don’t assume you know the answer, actually go and find out! Who should be involved in this exercise? Crisis Preparedness'

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5 Steps to Becoming a Crisis Communication Pro

Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Can any organization be a crisis communication pro? Being crisis-ready, crisis-intelligent, isn’t a mysterious quality that only a few people or organizations possess. So what would it take for your organization, your team, to be considered a crisis communication pro? Absolutely, why not? Prevent the preventable.

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

Cision

MARCH 1, 2016

Crisis communication is an important aspect of most PR roles. In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” So we may be in “crisis” far more often than we are in crisis.

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How To Identify your Crisis Plan’s Blind Spots

Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Don’t think your crisis plan has blind spots? Let me throw three common crisis scenarios at you and you can reflect on whether or not your team is prepared for each of them – and don’t assume you know the answer, actually go and find out! Who should be involved in this exercise? Manufacturing / Production.

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State of Crisis Communications and Social Media from a Professor’s Perspective

Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Social media and crisis communications has become one of the fastest growing areas of both practice and research for today’s communication landscape. Additionally, “over half of respondents (52%) feel that the benefits of using social media as a crisis communications tool outweigh the risks” (page 4). Guest Post by Karen Freberg.

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Misinformation 2.0: Deepfakes are the biggest threat to media today

PR in High Definition

JULY 22, 2019

The phrase went viral back in May when a doctored video appeared to show US politician Nancy Pelosi drunk in a TV interview. Imagine waking up to find a doctored video of you has gone viral, you’re being showered with vile abuse and you’re almost powerless in disproving its authenticity. There is hope, however.

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Rethink FHRITP: Together We Can Make it Mean Something Good

ReimaginePR

MAY 23, 2015

It’s also in crisis because more than 300 women have complained about sexual harassment while on the job. As the crisis lurches on, the women complainants find themselves out of jobs and traumatized while the male perpetrators are often shifted around or placed on paid administrative leave. She wouldn’t.As It’s messy.

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Rebranding FHRITP: Together We Can Make it Mean Something Good

ReimaginePR

MAY 23, 2015

It’s also in crisis because more than 300 women have complained about sexual harassment while on the job. As the crisis lurches on, the women complainants find themselves out of jobs and traumatized while the male perpetrators are often shifted around or placed on paid administrative leave. In part, it’s generational.

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10 Crisis Communication Tips Every Business Needs

Prohibition

DECEMBER 17, 2021

When a crisis hits the news, we are reminded of a valuable lesson: that companies and businesses often have to act fast in order to prevent further damage from taking place. Crisis communications is an important aspect to tackle as a business owner. This guide is written to assist in every aspect of crisis communication.

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Earned Media Rising Podcast With Cision CMO, Chris Lynch

Cision

OCTOBER 16, 2017

And that’s like sort of a good clarifying exercise to start. Steve Barrett: We’ve all seen those go viral haven’t we? Steve Barrett: There’s no point having a crisis plan on, on the hoof, and generating on the hoof, you’ve got to have it ready.

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Successful Crisis Management Reaches the Heart Before the Mind

Melissa Agnes

MARCH 28, 2016

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. A recent example of this was the Ebola crisis of 2014. Within a few hours, this panic had escalated to a viral point.

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Important Crisis Management Strategies for Managing the Zika Virus

Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

We just put the world crisis of Ebola to bed and here we are, already faced with yet another looming epidemic. As the Zika virus continues to spread, what are the major crisis management risks that healthcare organizations and government agencies should be thinking about? The three elements of a viral crisis.

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The 5 Phases of Becoming Crisis Ready

How To Identify your Crisis Plan’s Blind Spots

5 Steps to Becoming a Crisis Communication Pro

6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

How To Identify your Crisis Plan’s Blind Spots

State of Crisis Communications and Social Media from a Professor’s Perspective

Misinformation 2.0: Deepfakes are the biggest threat to media today

Rethink FHRITP: Together We Can Make it Mean Something Good

Rebranding FHRITP: Together We Can Make it Mean Something Good

10 Crisis Communication Tips Every Business Needs

Earned Media Rising Podcast With Cision CMO, Chris Lynch

Successful Crisis Management Reaches the Heart Before the Mind

Important Crisis Management Strategies for Managing the Zika Virus

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