Melissa Agnes

MAY 1, 2014

Editor’s Note: Rick Amme is a talented crisis management professional who, after decades of being “in the game”, has decided to embark on his next life adventure: retirement. Crisis Management Advice from a Retiring Pro. Be sure employees, shareholders, boards, customers, suppliers, etc. Food for Thought'

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PRSay

JANUARY 26, 2021

The concept of crisis communications can elicit images of Olivia Pope on the ABC series “ Scandal ” rattling off a monologue to a slew of reporters. While not quite as cinematic in reality, crisis communications is at the heart of any professional communication enterprise. Learning from the crisis.

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

What starts as a single tweet can snowball into a full-blown crisis within hours, putting organizations at risk of significant reputational damage. PR professionals now operate in an environment where public opinion shifts rapidly, and social movements can mobilize massive audiences against brands perceived to have crossed ethical lines.

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PRSay

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Crisis and conflict exist for every company, organization or entity; no one is immune to it. To be the very best crisis management professional, you must never stop learning — about your industry, best practices, case studies and the ever-evolving world around you. Florida International University is a proud sponsor of PRSA.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Tom Mueller, who interviewed over 200 corporate whistleblowers for his book Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud , proclaims this “the age of the whistleblower.”. ” In many companies, especially high-growth technology businesses, there have been different standards of behavior for certain employees.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PRSA provides educational opportunities to explore ethics in public relations year-round. PRSA recognizes Ethics Month each September to bring increased attention to the communications profession’s core foundation. Visit this link for additional programming and ethics resources.

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Onclusive

JUNE 1, 2023

Forward-thinking brands are already embracing the strategic advantages that social listening tools can offer when it comes to managing brand reputation, crisis detection, and optimising comms strategy. Yes, that’s right, it’s not just for marketing teams! Identify de-influencers or detractors Yes, that’s right.

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Ethical Voices

OCTOBER 28, 2024

I first met Tatevik when I was looking to expand the ethics cases outside of the US. Tatevik discusses How to best counsel your client when they want to respond unethically to an unethical competitor How to react calmly and ethically in highly emotional crises Should PR create a global code of ethics for influencer marketing?

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 15, 2018

Social media has redefined crisis response in three important ways: outlet options, messaging speed and employee engagement. Social media also has compressed the speed of information transfer from hours to minutes or even seconds as a crisis develops. Employee evangelists are made, not born. A Reason to Speak.

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Reputation Us

DECEMBER 19, 2024

RISK 3: REGULATORY COMPLIANCE & ETHICAL VIOLATIONS Threat : Increased regulatory scrutiny on matters like data usage, financial practices, and consumer rights exposes companies to fines and legal repercussions. Impact : Companies failing to meet ESG expectations risk public backlash, divestments, and difficulty attracting talent.

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PRSay

MARCH 7, 2022

That is the question individuals and organizations are asking throughout the world as a devastating humanitarian crisis unfolds in Ukraine. What are your employees saying? How can we help? There aren’t any right or wrong answers, but there are myriad ways that people can make a difference. Will it have a meaningful impact?

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Tom Mueller, who interviewed over 200 corporate whistleblowers for his book Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud , proclaims this “the age of the whistleblower.”. Just two months ago, luggage company Away grappled with reputation stumbles after employees shared internal messages that unpacked a punitive workplace culture.

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Melissa Agnes

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Today’s crisis realities present some of the biggest challenges and obstacles to be faced in a crisis or emergency. In fact, if you aren’t prepared, today’s crisis realities will work against you , rather than for you, in a crisis – making your task of effective crisis management extremely difficult.

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Ethical Voices

APRIL 2, 2025

What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted at work? It’s hard to pinpoint just one, but I would say one of the largest issues I have had to deal with involved a company that I used to work – a very large company with thousands of employees and we had a partnership with a somewhat controversial company.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

That’s the unhappy fate of James Henderson, the former CEO of now-defunct PR and crisis management powerhouse Bell Pottinger. When it was called out for crossing ethical lines by using false propaganda and fake grassroots in 2011, Bell Pottinger blasted critics but apparently never saw fit to police its methods.

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Ethical Voices

JANUARY 23, 2023

She discusses a number of important ethics topics, including: Where do you draw the competitive line? What is our first responsibility in ethical situations? Ethics issues with influencers Why don’t you tell us more about yourself and your career? I am currently the CEO and Co-owner of the Caliber Group.

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5W PR

JUNE 6, 2017

Before talking about building trust after a crisis, let’s at least mention the need to build trust with your clients and customers on an ongoing basis. Nature of the Crisis. The reason for the crisis will make a difference on how your proceed as well as what to do early on and later. Or if not, more likely to forgive faster.

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5W PR

JANUARY 1, 2023

Investing in CSR can help companies develop a corporate reputation, and attract customers while protecting businesses from any damage to their reputation, as well as helping them recover faster after a PR crisis.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

We were able to identify 6 management oriented roles associated with social media (social listening and analytics, online media relations, policy maker, employee recruiter, internal social media manager, and policing) and the specific duties those roles involve. My current research is focused on ethics and internal communication.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 1, 2021

Communications professionals often get involved when a crisis arises, but this is too late! Developing a Corporate Digital Responsibility governance framework To address CDR risk organisations need to develop a framework, underpinned by ethical values, to describe their management of data.

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Corporate Report Privacy Government 141

Ethical Voices

JANUARY 22, 2024

He discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: What to do when your client asks you to besmirch the competition How to effectively and ethically build trust What to do when employees, clients and partners break your trust Why don’t you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your career?

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 17, 2021

FleishmanHillard Executive Creative Director Dan Margulis had a rather perceptive quote on the findings: “Creativity has always been the way out of crisis…Crisis forced us to act but also freed us to evolve. Six in 10 comms pros face ethical challenges. We didn’t get here through convention.

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PR in High Definition

OCTOBER 19, 2017

You wouldn’t give a few days training to a junior member of staff and expect them to perform well without a manager, and algorithms don’t have the common sense or moral compass that new employees have. Handling a crisis in AI. But if things do go wrong, how do you handle an AI crisis? 1] [link]. [2] 2] [link]. [3] 3] [link]. [4]

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5W PR

JUNE 24, 2019

The modern-day news cycle means that industry stories don’t stay under wraps for long, and for many brands, it is only a matter of time before they find themselves dealing with one form of PR crisis or another. Perhaps the most important rule of thumb in preventing a PR crisis is to be transparent from the very beginning.

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Ethical Voices

DECEMBER 12, 2022

While I was a bit under the weather from a cold, Rebecca provided ethics insights on a number of topics, including: . The two things every ethical communicator must embrace. Before we get to the Brands in Motion report, what is the most difficult ethical challenge you personally have ever confronted at work? It absolutely is.

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PRSay

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Will you be able to legally, ethically, reputationally defend the advice you gave? Some executives on the McKinsey team had to realize what they were doing (or being asked to do) was wrong — ethically, morally, perhaps legally. How do your words make you look as a person? Voice your concerns — often.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 5, 2019

On closer examination, the Edelman/GEO Group situation is a great example of what not to do when faced with an ethical quandary. But as the agency that has tried to align its brand with public trust, one hopes it has learned from its mistakes.

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Melissa Agnes

JULY 12, 2016

This is a question that is often overlooked, though in my experience tends to find itself on many organizations’ top 10 list of high-risk crisis scenarios that management worries about. What’s so complicated about the management of this type of crisis? Adding personal misconduct to your crisis preparedness.

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Ethical Voices

APRIL 2, 2024

He discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: The ethical importance of avoiding even the appearance of impropriety. How to get ahead of AI ethics challenges Why don’t you tell us more about yourself and your career? What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted?

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Reputation Specialist Michael Toebe

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Holmes’ errors in judgment, ethics, risk management and decisions are well known. Holmes and Theranos, like other leaders and organizations, helped dig their own grave, so to speak, by encouraging employees to speak out against wrongdoing. Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes. The fall has also come at high velocity.

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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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Communications Conversations

AUGUST 21, 2015

But, along the way, we heard from one surprising source as the story unfolded: An Amazon employee. And, this opens up, yet again, a discussion we’ve had before: Should employees be empowered to speak up during a company crisis or firestorm? Meanwhile, 52 percent trust employees of that same company.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

True Accountability Helps Defuse A Crisis. First, it was eclipsed by a fire-and-brimstone invective from Elizabeth Warren, who demand that he resign and called for jail sentences for senior executives who cross ethical lines. Yet Stump’s apology fell short. firm to defend themselves.” Optics matter.

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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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Reputation Us

AUGUST 9, 2023

Negative publicity, ethical breaches, product recalls, or any crisis linked to reputation can lead to a loss of customer trust and loyalty. A damaged image may also lead to difficulties in attracting skilled employees.

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PRSay

JULY 14, 2020

From the first week of the lockdowns, I wanted to be sure that my employees knew that the situation was fluid, that we would be assessing things as we went and that their jobs were safe. In 2020, the general public wants to know where organizations stand on these important matters just like employees do.

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Stephen Waddington

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It spotlights the gap between what organisations say, and what they are actually doing, to support their employees. Not if they really want to improve the mental health and wellbeing of their employees. A reader speculatively sent me this guest blog post after the conversation this week around World Mental Health Day.

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