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Rise in Ransomware Attacks Demands Extra Crisis Vigilance

PRSay

Preparing for these increasingly sophisticated threats and containing the damage when attacks occur requires a level of experience and expertise beyond that of a company’s day-to-day crisis team. Build a dedicated cyber-crisis team. Here are six things to think about: 1. Make key decisions ahead of time. Enlist employees.

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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. Step 1: Identify your stakeholders.

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Future skills for public relations practitioners - World PR Day

Stephen Waddington

I worked as part of a team of professional marketing and communications associations on behalf of the Government Communication Service at the outset of the crisis. According to a poll by the IoIC two-thirds of internal communicators said that leaders looked to them for more guidance during the crisis.

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Eight Reputation Enhancement Actions to Take in 2023

Reputation Us

While you want to encourage their leadership, you definitely don’t want them getting poached! Action 4: Promote Thought Leadership. This can create a crisis management situation for your reputation. During a crisis, while the reputation of the company is at stake, a board of directors has its own reputation to consider as well.

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11 Steps For Crisis Management

Prohibition

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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Blue Ocean Global Technology Interviews Casey Boggs of ReputationUs

Reputation Us

Blue Ocean: Your firm, ReputationUs, states that “We enhance the reputation that precedes your organization, before a crisis defines your organization.” Casey: Too often companies and leaders wait for a crisis to adversely impact the core of their organization before they finally focus on the reputational ramifications.

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How to Communicate Effectively: 3 Lessons from FDR’s “Fear Itself” Speech

Stern + Associates

FDR’s reform program would include federal banking and stock market regulations, Social Security and unemployment insurance, and a transformation of expectations the people have of the government. In our own work, we have clients who work in many areas of business and society where challenges abound.