How to deal with the media after a failure. Guidelines for development of a crisis management program with details for everyone in the company to understand the importance and value of the plan.
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This is the presentation for the crisis management plan we prepared with my friend for our crisis communication class. You can find the actual crisis management plan here: http://slidesha.re/hW1Fur
Crisis Communications 101: A Crash CourseMissionMode
12 major principles that will help you take charge of the next corporate crisis. Effective communications during a crisis can make the difference between quickly resolving the situation and it becoming a nightmare. This presentation covers the bases from crisis leadership and planning to social media and the press.
This presentation provides a unique view of crisis communications principles. It is based on the author's many years of experience in PR and corporate communications.
Bad things happen; however, many organizations have not prepared a crisis communications plan.
How hard is it to prepare a custom crisis communications plan? What goes into a crisis communications plan? What is the difference between a crisis communications plan and an emergency action plan? What do you need to be ready for?
Answering these questions is easier now than during a crisis. This presentation outlines key things you should do to prepare for all types of potential crises and provides a simple action plan towards completing a preliminary crisis communications plan.
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Crisis management for non crisis managers
What is Crisis?
Crisis Characteristics
Crisis vs. incidents
Risk to Crisis
Crisis Typology
Crisis management
Operating During Crisis
Strategic management and crisis
April 24, 2012. Webinar sponsored by the Silicon Valley & San Francisco Chapters of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).
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This is the presentation for the crisis management plan we prepared with my friend for our crisis communication class. You can find the actual crisis management plan here: http://slidesha.re/hW1Fur
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12 major principles that will help you take charge of the next corporate crisis. Effective communications during a crisis can make the difference between quickly resolving the situation and it becoming a nightmare. This presentation covers the bases from crisis leadership and planning to social media and the press.
This presentation provides a unique view of crisis communications principles. It is based on the author's many years of experience in PR and corporate communications.
Bad things happen; however, many organizations have not prepared a crisis communications plan.
How hard is it to prepare a custom crisis communications plan? What goes into a crisis communications plan? What is the difference between a crisis communications plan and an emergency action plan? What do you need to be ready for?
Answering these questions is easier now than during a crisis. This presentation outlines key things you should do to prepare for all types of potential crises and provides a simple action plan towards completing a preliminary crisis communications plan.
Crisis management for non crisis managers Taha ABULAYNINTaha ABULAYNIN
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What is Crisis?
Crisis Characteristics
Crisis vs. incidents
Risk to Crisis
Crisis Typology
Crisis management
Operating During Crisis
Strategic management and crisis
April 24, 2012. Webinar sponsored by the Silicon Valley & San Francisco Chapters of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).
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Get our Crisis Communication Planning And Management PowerPoint Presentation Slides to encapsulate crisis management and communication plan. The key objectives of your crisis plan can be effectively discussed by using our readily available crisis management plan PowerPoint slide deck. Discuss the types and levels of crisis management with the help of these PPT layouts. Details about the crisis directory, risk assessment, crisis inventory, crisis communication control center, etc can be easily provided using our readily available PPT presentation. Take the assistance of this crisis communication strategy’s PPT visual, to highlight the communication plan for notifying the public along with a key message. The presentation allows you to depict crisis communication policy, crisis management steps, and evaluation form for post-crisis. Provide reliable information to avoid rumors and backlash with our content-ready PPT slideshow. Thus, Incorporate our professionally designed crisis communication planning PowerPoint presentation to communicate information about crises to the public. https://bit.ly/3i6kgQc
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The role of Public Relations in Risk and Reputation Aura PR
This is a presentation I delivered to the annual Commercial Law Network conference in October 2019.
It looks at the role of public relations in risk and reputation and talks about organisational challenges and how to overcome them. It also cites a huge opportunity for lawyers and PR professionals to work more closely on risk and reputation management, with clearly defined roles.
If you want to check out my business and experience head to www.aura-pr.com and please do get in touch if you'd like to chat about I can help you come up with a risk and reputation strategy, covering internal and external factors.
It is essential for the employees to sense the early signs of crisis and warn the employees against the negative consequences of the same. Crisis not only affects the smooth functioning of the organization but also pose a threat to its brand name.
Crisis Communication refers to a special wing which deals with the reputation of the individuals as well as the organization. Crisis communication is an initiative which aims at protecting the reputation of the organization and maintaining its public image.
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Survive the Unthinkable Through Crisis Planning
What is a Crisis?
A crisis is a situation that has reached an extremely difficult or dangerous point.
A crisis is an event, revelation, allegation or set of circumstances which threatens the integrity, reputation, or survival of an individual or organization.
Crisis management means
· having a plan in place,
· having identified who will do what,
· and having practiced the plan for most conceivable events.
No organization can just "wing it."
You need to develop a crisis management plan.
You need to develop variations of the plan to cover any emergency your company might be expected to encounter.
The goal of the plan itself is to ensure your people have the tools to get the crisis under control as quickly as possible to minimize the damage.
It's about Proactive vs. Reactive
Crisis Communications Planning is the process of managing the strategy, messages, timing and distribution channels necessary to communicate effectively with the media, employees, core constituencies, clients, customers and stake holders.
The focus of the crisis communications function is to facilitate the rapid de-escalation of the crisis through timely and effective communications methods.
Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act
The idea behind success, in a dogfight, a business situation, or a crisis, is to complete loops of decision making that are faster than those around you, such as your adversaries.
We want to shorten the life cycle of our decisions without increasing the failure rate of the decisions made.
If we have no preparation, if we don't take into account all the elements of the environment, including the possibilities of problems that haven't occurred but may, then we are
· either too slow in our decisions to be careful, and this allows the other guy to do things faster and thus better than us,
· or we are either too hasty in our decisions, and this leads to costly errors.
For crisis communication, preparation guarantees orientation
· In a crisis, you job is not to minimize the stockholder expense, it is to maximize the company's chances of survival. You need to limit the cost, but also you need to limit the damage to the company's reputation and credibility.
· You need to react as quickly as a crisis breaks.
· By acting quickly, and doing immediately the things you are eventually have to do anyway, you maximize your chances of staying ahead of events where you have some chance to influence the story.
What's the DEAL?
An effective crisis communications plan should:
· Define response strategies that can be implemented when a crisis occurs;
· Assign crisis communications resources and responsibilities;
· Enable you to reach target audiences with key messages, and
· Launch public information and media relations campaigns immediately during a crisis.
In a crisis tell it all, tell it fast and tell the truth.
Other things to remember:
· Never try to lie, deny or hide your involv.
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Effective Crisis Communication
Chapter 5 – 10 Lessons on Managing Crisis Uncertainty Effectively
Ulmer, R., Sellnow, T., and Seeger, M. (2019). Effective crisis communication: Moving from crisis to opportunity. Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks, CA.
Defining Uncertainty
Uncertainty – The inability to predict the future.
Lack of Information
Complexity of Information
Quality of Information
Crises create EPISTEMOLOGICAL and ONTOLOGICAL uncertainty.
Epistemological – Uncertainty from lack of knowledge.
Ontological – Uncertainty from a new future created by crisis – The future has little to no relationship with the past.
Lessons 1 - 3
Crises Can Start Quickly and Unexpectedly
Shouldn’t respond with routine solutions
The threat is perceptual
Lesson 4
Communicate Early and Often Regardless of Having Information or Not!
Because of uncertainty, accurate info is not there for stakeholders.
Effective strategies include making a list of potential questions.
What happened?
Who is responsible?
Why did it happen?
Who is affected?
What should we do?
Who can we trust?
What should we say?
How should we say it?
Lesson 5
Ethical Ambiguity During Crises
Organizations should not purposely heighten the ambiguity of a crisis to deceive or distract the public
Ambiguity is “an ongoing stream that supports several different interpretations at the same time”, Weick (1995)
Ethical when – uses unbiased data to inform and contribute to the complete understanding
Unethical when – using biased or incomplete information to deceive
Lesson 6
Be prepared to defend your interpretation of the evidence surrounding a crisis
Lesson 7
Without good intentions prior to a crisis, recovery is difficult or impossible
Questions of Evidence
Questions of Intent
Questions of Responsibility
Lesson 8
If you believe you are not responsible, you need to build a case for who is
Lesson 9
Organizations need to prepare through simulations and training
Crises thrust people into unfamiliar roles.
Crisis demands can bring structures to their knees.
Organizations should train and prepare for crises.
Lesson 10
Crises challenge the way organizations think about and conduct their business
Crises create “Cosmology Episodes” – disorienting experiences in which beliefs and sensemaking structures are hampered. Weick (1993)
They can change how we think about the world.
Organizations and Stakeholders need information to reduce uncertainty.
Organizations in crisis often stonewall
Stakeholders are left wondering if they will get information needed to protect themselves
Media speculates
Effective Crisis Communication
Chapter 1 The Conceptual Foundation
Ulmer, R., Sellnow, T., and Seeger, M. (2019). Effective crisis communication: Moving from crisis to opportunity. Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks, CA.
Importance of Crisis Communication Skills
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Crisis communication
1. CRISIS COMMUNICATION AND
ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR
ORGANISATIONS
Group 5:
Kushagra Sharma
(057)
Neha Dalal (070)
Paras Sharma (077)
Prodyot Parashar
(083)
Raj Kumar Singh
(089)
2. "It takes 20 years to build a
reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”
-Warren Buffett
3. Bloodbath in Indian Stock
Markets
Investors in Indian markets lost more
than 16 trillion Rupees in just 2 days !
7. CRISIS
A crisis is a situation that has
reached a critical phase.
A crisis could be caused by:
Natural disaster
Technological crises
Confrontation
Malevolence
Organizational Misdeeds
Workplace Violence
Rumours
Terrorist attacks/man-made
disasters
8. COMMON FEATURES OF A
CRISIS
The situation materialises unexpectedly
Decisions are required urgently
There is sense of loss of control
Pressures build over time
Reputation suffers
Communications are increasingly difficult to manage
9. CRISIS COMMUNICATION
Part of a larger process called Crisis Management.
Sub-specialty of Public Relation Profession.
Designed to protect in any situation that could threaten to
harm people or property, interrupt business, damage
reputation or negatively impact the share value of an
organisation.
11. Organizations that do not communicate quickly
make it worse for themselves
The crisis response itself changes the crisis
Buying bad news rarely works
Reputation suffers
Financial instability may occur
Cont..
12. CHALLENGES TO THE
ORGANISATION
Investigation from a Govt. Agency
Criminal allegation and lawsuits
Media Enquiry leading to loss of reputation and
credibility
Loss of legal, ethical and financial standing of entity
Violation of environmental regulations
Operational viability
14. CRISIS MANAGEMENT
MODEL
According to Gonzalez-Herrero and Pratt three
phases of Crisis Management are:
Diagnose the
impending trouble
Choose appropriate
Turnaround
Strategy
Implement the
change process
and monitor it
15. The best defense against reputation damage at
the time of a crisis is an investment in planning
and preparedness well before it hits. This
minimizes the impact of a crisis
defines roles and responsibilities among the
leadership team
ensures a coordinated response
reducing the severity of a crisis.
CONTINGENCY PLANNING
16. CRISIS TEAM
A Crisis Team is composed of senior
management, communications staff, and
others appropriate to the situation at hand.
The Crisis Team will gather information, decide
a course of action, and manage the crisis
response.
The Crisis Team should designate an official
spokesperson, who will be the single point
person for all communications with the news
media and other interested parties.
17. CRISIS IDENTIFICATION
All managers and supervisors should be made
aware of what kinds of situations may
constitute a crisis. Any employee who
becomes aware of a potential crisis should
take responsibility for quickly bringing the
problem to the attention of his or her
immediate supervisor.
An incident report should be prepared with the
facts available. This should be done as quickly
as possible, so that facts and details are
recalled accurately.
18. CRISIS RESPONSE
As the Crisis Team begins to address the
situation, keep these points in mind:
Take responsibility
Show compassion
Speak with one voice
Be responsive to the media and track inquiries
Seek resolution
20. An effective crisis communication strategy will
typically consider achieving most, if not all, of the
following objectives:
Maintain connectivity
Be readily accessible to the news media
Show empathy for the people involved
Allow distributed access
Streamline communication processes
Maintain information security
Ensure uninterrupted audit trails
Deliver high volume communications
Support multi-channel communications
Remove dependencies on paper based processes
21. COMMUNICATION PLAN
For effective communication to take place,
three questions need to be addressed while
preparing the communication plan:
WHO is the audience?
WHAT is the message that needs to be put across?
HOW is this message to be communicated?
22. WHO: THE AUDIENCE
The audience can be internal or external.
Internal audience:
Employees
Shareholders
Management
Legal and media
representatives
External audience:
Customers
The media
Government and
authorities
Consumer rights
lobbying groups, legal
authorities
23. INTERNAL COMMUNICATION
Whenever a critical situation arises, it is of
importance that communication channels within
the organization remain open and that clear
communication is done with the internal audience.
If the core issue is internal, effective internal
communication can help to resolve it before it
escalates
The questions that the employees and
stakeholders have are answered effectively
It ensures that the faith of the employees and
stakeholders in the company is not shaken
24. Everyone has a clear idea of the extent of the
crisis and what steps are being taken to
resolve the problem
Employees are able to provide feedback
They may also have helpful suggestions for
the course of action to be taken
The organization presents a united front to its
external audience
Cont..
25. WHAT: THE MESSAGE
A succinct explanation of what went wrong
An expression of concern for the impact that the
situation has on customers, employees, the general
public, etc.
A sincere apology, if warranted, and a sense that the
company takes responsibilities for any missteps it may
have made
A commitment to identifying the underlying factors that
caused this situation to happen and addressing them
An expression of confidence that this situation does not
reflect poorly on the company overall
26. HOW: COMMUNICATION
TECHNIQUE
Speed is of importance, the message needs to
be put across as soon as possible
The message should be accurate, easy to
understand and should contain all relevant
information.
All media, written, verbal and social can and
should be used
Put a spokesperson in front
Comments should also come from the highest
authority
28. NEED FOR A
SPOKESPERSON
Spokesperson represents the organisation in
the media
Gives the impression that the organisation is
not afraid to face the media and tackle the
situation head on
If the spokesperson is a high level official, like
a VP or CEO shows that leaders are not afraid
of taking responsibility
29. THE IDEAL SPOKESPERSON
Polite and patient
Always available to respond to queries and comments
Well-informed and authoritative
Accurate and reliable
Confident and articulate
Trustworthy
Does not panic easily
Evidently committed to the process
30. CONCLUSION
Effective communication in the event of a crisis
may well help to keep the situation from
escalating beyond control
Ineffective communication or lack of
communication on the other hand can escalate
a small situation to large levels and have fatal
repercussions on the reputation and value of
the company
31. “People don’t judge the good guys on
whether they have made mistakes,
but on how they have fixed them”