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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. Let me explain.

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What is Crisis PR? A Comprehensive Guide to Managing Communication During Critical Times

5W PR

Timely Response Speed matters in crisis communication. Delayed Response Waiting too long to acknowledge a crisis can create an information vacuum that others may fill with speculation or misinformation. Success depends on having a well-prepared team, clear communication protocols, and the ability to adapt as situations evolve.

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Managing PR During A Health Tech Crisis

5W PR

Recent data shows that 45% of healthcare organizations experienced a data breach in 2022, while medical device recalls increased by 31% compared to the previous year, highlighting the pressing need for robust crisis communication strategies.

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How To Identify your Crisis Plan’s Blind Spots

Melissa Agnes

These attacks can and do come from anybody – from angry customers to unlawful competitors – and require legal and crisis communication expertise to manage. Risk 3: A lack of bandwidth can leave you without a crisis communication home base. Who should be involved in this exercise? Operations.

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Does Your Crisis Scenario Plan Need Some Love?

Cision

Loop in HR, accounting, customer service, area managers and people who have a feel for your operations and your geographic regions. Heck, bust this thing out and use it as a team-building exercise. Crisis Comms Webinar Today: Want to learn more about crisis communications planning? Share it! .

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How To Identify your Crisis Plan’s Blind Spots

Melissa Agnes

These attacks can and do come from anybody – from angry customers to unlawful competitors – and require legal and crisis communication expertise to manage. Risk 3: A lack of bandwidth can leave you without a crisis communication home base. Who should be involved in this exercise? Operations.

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

Waxing UnLyrical

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).