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How To Socialize Your Crisis Management Plan

Melissa Agnes

I’m often asked how organizations should go about beginning to socialize their crisis management plan throughout the depths of their organization. In this week’s #crisisready video , I share my approach to familiarizing and socializing my clients’ crisis preparedness programs with the different members of their team.

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What To Look For When Engaging a Crisis Management Professional

Melissa Agnes

When you hire a crisis management professional or firm, whether prior to or during a crisis, expectations of both parties need to be clear. Surprises are not something you want to experience while managing a crisis, the crisis will present you with enough of those on its own! Emotional intelligence.

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Crisis Management Tip: What To Do if You Genuinely Have Nothing to Say

Melissa Agnes

So they say nothing, which ends up being a major crisis management mistake. So, if saying nothing isn’t an option (which it isn’t), what are you supposed to do in a crisis if you have nothing to say? Take a look: Do you have a crisis management question you’d like me to answer?

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When Hiring a Crisis Management Advisor, Become An Informed Buyer To Mitigate Unnecessary Risk

Melissa Agnes

Charlie Maclean-Bristol, one of the Founders and Directors of PlanB Consulting, joins the Invincible Brand Podcast to discuss how organizations can get around the lack of certification in the profession of crisis management, to make sure they’re partnering with the right professionals for their company’s crisis ready needs.

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How Well Do You Know the New Rules of Crisis Management?

PRSay

Viral videos. From a crisis management point of view, 2017 had it all! We’ve all got smartphones with sophisticated video cameras. We’ve read the tweets, replayed the video several times and heard victims’ stories long before we read about the same issue on a news site or see it on a TV broadcast. United Airlines.

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What’s The Best Question To Ask A Crisis Management Consultant?

Melissa Agnes

As a crisis management consultant and keynote speaker, I get asked this question all the time: “What industry do you specialize in?” ” And while this is a good question in theory, it’s actually the wrong question to ask if you’re looking to hire the right crisis management expert to meet your needs.

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The Role of Social Media in Crisis Management

The Proactive Report

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Yang Cheng, Assistant Professor of Public Relations, Department of Communication at North Carolina State University, on her research paper about the role of social media in crisis management. Think United Airlines recent crisis. Social Media Crisis Research Paper.