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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Melissa Agnes

OCTOBER 10, 2014

having a blast putting City officials through a simulated earthquake exercise. From The Crisis Intelligence Blog. How To Meet the Demand for Real-Time Communication in a Crisis. The Crisis After The Crisis. This week’s episode of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast. Crisis Management Resources'

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PRSay

MARCH 23, 2018

As a corporate communicator who, like others, nervously and helplessly watched the water rise, I learned about the parallels that can be drawn between the historic flood and how companies respond to their own crises. Similarly, companies can anticipate many of the resources they’ll need if a crisis strikes. Offer tangible aid.

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Prakkypedia

JULY 8, 2014

So you’ve just landed a new corporate communications role. And naturally, I’ve been focused on all the things a good corporate communications manager should have in place. My five things to address in your first week as a Corporate Communications Manager: 1. Is there a crisis communications plan? Congratulations!

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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 11, 2016

Information silos can trigger issues and handicap your crisis management. True crisis preparedness requires more than a plan, it requires the right corporate culture. Part of ensuring the right corporate culture means adapting the right mindset. How to change a silo’d corporate culture.

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Solo PR Pro

MAY 11, 2021

5 solo PR pros advise on crisis communications. This month, we asked our panel of solo PR pros to share how they deal with a client crisis. The very first thing I tell a client when dealing with a crisis is DO. Michael Ares, MDA Corporate Marketing, LLC. Read on for their helpful tips. Trust between myself and my client.

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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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Reputation Us

JUNE 23, 2019

Already in 2019, corporate crises appear to be increasing and getting nastier than 2018. According to The Holmes Report , last year brought an increasing penchant for corporate scandals. So how does a company handle a corporate crisis in today’s world? We’re rethinking corporate crisis.

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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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Reputation Us

MARCH 17, 2025

Have you ever thought of how prone your business is to risk and how efficient it is to respond to a crisis? At ReputationUs , test your crisis plan by simulating your own crisis beforehand and test your companys response to realistic crisis scenarios and simulated crisis sequences.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 6, 2019

We seem to be in a crisis of confidence. Corporate America is stepping up. This comes as a happy sign for public relations professionals who preach corporate responsibility or even strategic activism to clients. Yet 20-plus multinational corporations pledged to use renewable energy for 100 percent of their electricity.

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PRSay

AUGUST 8, 2022

Squeezed by competing pressures, “CEOs and other senior leaders need to consider and carefully calculate how to talk about issues that were once seen as unrelated to business performance,” says Christine DiBartolo, FTI’s senior managing director for corporate reputation. Lots of clients do crisis-preparedness planning.

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Onclusive

JUNE 23, 2022

This has certainly helped us stay funded and keep the right conversations going across our entire organization.” ~ Lona Therrien, Sr Director, Global Corporate Communications, Mimecast. Strategy: Any strategy should be rooted in clear goals, so make sure both PR and marketing go through the objective-setting exercise first.

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NewsWhip

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

He remains a Senior Advisor to Avoq on innovation and corporate development, and is also the principal at his investment firm Storm King Holdings , where he focuses on the intersection of data and strategy in scaling innovative media companies. Your employees care the most about workforce issues because they live it everyday.

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Melissa Agnes

OCTOBER 10, 2014

having a blast putting City officials through a simulated earthquake exercise. From The Crisis Intelligence Blog. How To Meet the Demand for Real-Time Communication in a Crisis. The Crisis After The Crisis. This week’s episode of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast. Welcome to this week’s #CrisisRoundup!

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PRSay

AUGUST 28, 2018

Even in non-crisis PR situations, “now” reflects a time well before something reaches the public eye. Tim O’Brien, APR, owns O’Brien Communications, an independent corporate communications practice in Pittsburgh. What we choose to do or don’t do today usually involves an irreversible course tomorrow. Twitter: @OBrienPR.

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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

MAY 28, 2020

Whether that involves restaurant deliveries or grocery deliveries for meals, soap, and hand-sanitizer, or exercise equipment in an attempt to stay active while being stuck at home. This is the best time for customer experience leaders to place themselves at the forefront of consumer behavior trends that have resulted from the crisis.

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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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PRSay

JANUARY 9, 2024

As you likely know, traditional media training and crisis training tend to focus on one spokesperson, usually the CEO, who is put through his or her paces in front of a group. The exercises often concentrate on opposites and extremes, such as gesticulating versus keeping your hands in your lap.

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Solo PR Pro

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Here are some questions you can ask to help understand whether what your pro is doing makes sense and will support your goals: How does this tactic (messaging exercise, award submission, internal communications audit, media pitch, submitted article, news release, other) connect to our business goals? instead of another tactic?

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MaccaPR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

With the ad criticized as “tone deaf,” “sexist” and “a dystopian hellscape,” consumers noted that the model-slim “ Peloton Wife” exercised as if her life (or marriage) depended upon her losing the few pounds she still retained. So what lessons can marketers and corporate communicators learn from Peloton’s campaign?

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Reputation Us

JANUARY 4, 2016

Streams of patient data were exfiltrated from the corporate networks into dark corners of the Internet. As a start, following are five practical countermeasures executives can deploy to protect the reputation of their organization, as well as the security of their patient data: Strategy #1: Have a Reputation Audit Done Before a Crisis.

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Cision

OCTOBER 16, 2017

And that’s like sort of a good clarifying exercise to start. If you look at social just from a corporate responsibility standpoint, it still stretches across a variety of different functions so comms is responsible for, sort of, what is the corporate official message on a lot of things.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Several high-profile crisis PR cases this year demonstrated why corporations tend to favor fiction over reality when it comes to spokespeople. Avoid the Noid: A Mascot that Became a PR Crisis Case Study. Clearly, I haven’t hit any strides in motivational speaking: The Steep Mental Exercise of Child’s Hill.

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PRSay

AUGUST 14, 2019

As corporate vice president of communications at Microsoft , Frank X. When you go out on exercises, you essentially report out on what’s happening, and so I got a chance to use those skills in the Marines as well. How did your time in the Marine Corps prepare you for agency and corporate life? We ran a base newspaper.

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Reputation Antistress by Sergii Bidenko

JUNE 26, 2023

The company immediately deprived all those participants of access to corporate resources and services. In addition to explaining the situation, the letter outlined a large-scale assistance program for all dismissed with a clear action plan to mitigate the negative effects of the crisis. The dismissal procedure lasted two minutes.

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Prakkypedia

MARCH 9, 2016

Where does emotion feature in a corporate crisis? It can be a fruitless exercise to become emotional over a review, casting you as thin-skinned and immature (ping Lawrence Mooney). This post was first published in InDaily on 9 March 2016. There was no quivering anger – and indeed in this case, how would that fly?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Predictions are a license for liberty in mental exercise. Finally, the savviest of corporate communicators will recognize that paid media in a digital environment, is a cost effective and highly targeted channel by which to augment existing communications efforts and an opportunity to reach influencers that cannot otherwise be reached.

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Shift Communications

AUGUST 23, 2016

I’m a big believer in the SWOT analysis – which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats – because it forces companies to face their weaknesses and threats and forces communications teams to prepare for tough questions and (potentially) crisis situations.

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Wadds Inc.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

To that aim, I booked onto a five-day residential course in Surrey, shortly after cancelled due to the impending Coronavirus crisis. It’s gruelling but needs to be if, as the IoD says, it serves as an: “endorsement of your skills, professionalism and knowledge of corporate governance best-practice.”

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Reputation Antistress by Sergii Bidenko

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

When a crisis tries to "eat" a person, they look for something to eat. Do any physical exercise that pleases you. It turns out that to avoid the negative consequences and symptoms you described, you need to go for a walk, dance, or do some other physical exercises after the air raid.

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MaccaPR

APRIL 12, 2016

What would you give to take our PR and corporate communications industry’s leaders aside and ask them – what success tips did they wish someone had told them earlier in their career? Find outlets for having fun, exercising, volunteering and eating right. Sure these folks can all write. And yeah, they have good media skills.

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The Hoffman Agency

MARCH 6, 2024

It becomes a tick-box exercise. These organizations aren’t just “inspiring inclusion” and adding to the corporate noise. PS: At the end of Miss Congeniality, our heroine takes the stage to give a speech before her fellow contestants as they thank her for her part in averting a crisis (huge understatement). They’re enacting it.

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Communications Conversations

MAY 13, 2015

For Yunsoo, her favorite part about PR is the way it allows her to exercise her passion for people and for sharing messages with style, tact, and authenticity. Her interests focus on PR and social media, but also is interested in event planning and working with established corporations here in Louisville. Michael Johnson.

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Frederik Vincx

DECEMBER 11, 2015

The highest skills gaps were reported as measurement (53%), budget management (44%), crisis management (37%), and digital communications/social media (35%). This exercise will give you a good understanding of where you’re investing time that you shouldn’t. You need to make sure this exercise stays valuable. Where do you start?

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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. Spark new ideas.

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