Melissa Agnes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Editor’s Note: This is a great blog post that gives you an overview of what you can do, right now, to prevent a crisis. But, are they a crisis? How to avoid a public relations crisis. 1) Provide social media training for everyone that operates as an admin on a brand account. Not necessarily.

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Crisis management in the defense technology sector requires meticulous planning, precise execution, and constant readiness. When a crisis hits, organizations must respond swiftly and effectively to protect their reputation, maintain stakeholder trust, and minimize potential damage.

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Presspage

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To keep your company from falling into this PR trap, this blog post will teach you everything you need to know before you can get started with your crisis communication strategy. Let’s start with what crisis communication is. What is crisis communication? However, crisis comms isn’t just about the actual communication part.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 22, 2017

Corporate communicators regularly work with stakeholders across the organization to develop and distribute pertinent info to employees and key affiliates. Internal communicators must be savvy enough to turn dry content like company policies into info employees actually want to read. Media Training. Crisis Communications.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 12, 2014

By Patrice Cloutier, Strategic communications professional and member of the Agnes + Day Crisis Intelligence Team. Which leads us to ask: What kind of training do THEY have? Your employees are your representatives and they are expected to behave decently, with respect and compassion. It’s how news is made today.

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PRSay

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

We have experienced firsthand how a crisis can significantly and quickly impact business operations. Companies can prepare by evaluating the crisis process, team, tools and resources they have in place. A clear organizational purpose, mission and values provide guidance and establish a strong foundation to support crisis responses.

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APRIL 22, 2021

The best way to prepare for a crisis is to invest in a crisis communications response and management program. In a time of crisis, communicators need to act decisively and quickly with transparent responses. However, with structure, you can put together an effective crisis communications plan. Expect the unexpected.

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5W PR

JANUARY 24, 2025

PR professionals now manage an intricate mix of content creation, community management, and crisis response across platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Successful crisis management requires preparation, monitoring, and swift action. PR teams need established response protocols and clear communication channels.

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5W PR

MARCH 18, 2025

Managing a public relations crisis in health technology requires careful planning, swift action, and clear communication to protect both patient safety and organizational reputation. Document all protocols in a crisis communication playbook that’s regularly reviewed and updated.

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5W PR

JANUARY 22, 2025

Social media amplifies both positive and negative messages, making swift, strategic crisis management more critical than ever. Building Your Crisis Response Foundation A strong crisis management strategy starts long before any issues arise. Start by acknowledging the issue and sharing what you know.

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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. Crisis Management Advice from a Retiring Pro. Food for Thought'

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 7, 2014

We saw the extent of this in a recent train derailment when a lady tweeted a picture of her overturned cart before she dialled 911 for help. It’s also true that Twitter (and other social media platforms) need to be a part of your crisis communications strategy. Image credit . appeared first on Agnes + Day. Food for Thought'

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5W PR

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Training Your First Line of Defense Employees represent both the greatest vulnerability and strongest asset in fighting misinformation. A single ill-informed social media post from staff can spark a crisis, while well-trained employees act as brand truth ambassadors.

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Onclusive

AUGUST 9, 2021

Corporate communicators regularly work with stakeholders across the organization to develop and distribute pertinent info to employees and key affiliates. Taking dry content like company policies and turning it into information that employees actually want to read requires a savvy communicator. Media Training.

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 23, 2016

Your crisis management governance model serves as one of the foundational elements of your entire crisis management program. It defines everything from the structure, roles and responsibilities of your crisis team, straight through to your internal escalation process. How to structure your crisis management governance model.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 1, 2016

Your corporate culture directly impacts your organization’s crisis management. Successful crisis management has a lot to do with an organization’s corporate culture and the mindset it instils in its team members. Embedding the right corporate culture for successful crisis management. Simple next steps to take.

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Melissa Agnes

JULY 9, 2014

Customer service programs and trainings are important. It’s important to educate and train your frontline to be able to engage and empower your clients, to build relationships and to humanize your brand. However, one area of the customer service training that often gets overlooked is issues management. Learn more here.

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5W PR

JANUARY 26, 2025

Starbucks demonstrated this following a 2018 racial bias incident by quickly acknowledging the issue, closing stores for bias training, and accelerating diversity initiatives. Employee Activation and Internal Communications Employees serve as powerful ambassadors for corporate social responsibility efforts.

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 26, 2014

Does the blame (partially or in full) fall on the employer who put the young person to task without first providing them with the proper training and guidelines? Employees and Crisis Management Food for Thought' Do you think that young people are mostly at fault for the mishaps we commonly see on social?

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PRSay

MARCH 9, 2017

To be an expert in crisis communications you have to move your organization at the speed of Twitter when “it” hits the fan. As employees ran for safety, one stopped to take a photo of the fireball, then sat in his Ford F150 and created a Facebook page. It’s time to face the music. Within minutes he posted a video to the web.

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

As we handed the Air Canada employee our boarding passes, the dream moment happened… she tore them up, gave us a dazzling smile and kindly said “great news, you’ve been upgraded to first class! It was certainly not a crisis, but it was an issue – especially to me, considering my computer was now soaked with champagne.

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Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

As you may have heard, Crisis Ready: Building an Invincible Brand in an Uncertain World , is my new book – and I’m so excited that it’s finally available for you to preorder on Amazon ! When I set out to write Crisis Ready , the last thing I wanted was to write yet another (boring) book on crisis management.

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PRSay

JULY 27, 2020

As employees look for answers during the COVID-19 crisis, they need simple, straightforward language. Employees have never liked corporate-speak, of course. These contrived communications are the exact opposite of the natural conversations employees engage in everywhere else,” the authors noted. Sharpen the focus.

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When the word coronavirus first came on the scene at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) earlier this year, we did what most hospitals do in a time of crisis, we stood up the Office of Emergency Response (OEM) and went to work. We provided weekly training sessions to ensure that public affairs officers could hone their skills.

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Stephen Waddington

JULY 16, 2021

There are several forces in play: Areas of the economy that shut down are reopening and organisations are firmly in recovery-mode The pandemic has created a new set of roles is areas such as employee engagement and sustainability Entry level roles are reopening as organisation begin to figure out the balance between home and office working.

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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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PRSay

JANUARY 9, 2024

A good training program will help presenters improve their skills. Not all presentation training is the same, of course. 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.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 10, 2014

I recently had the opportunity to join an NYU graduate class in a Twitter chat on crisis communications. Q1: How is a crisis today different than in years past? Q2: How much time do have to respond to a crisis online? Sometimes crisis happens because the mishandle of an opportunity. Assess the Crisis Situation.

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PRSay

MARCH 25, 2019

Today, the danger is not just that employees can forward materials to external audiences with a simple keystroke. Make sure you invest in secure communications systems and training (don’t assume your employees know better than to click that “reset password” link in that shady email), and create a corporate culture that values your staff.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MARCH 13, 2018

Any crisis communications team must be ready to respond at any hour to an escalating event, and that speed is vital. Corporate leadership recognizes the critical importance of getting everybody on the same page – no easy task in organizations with 20,000 employees. Over 80% of companies now have an employee social media policy.

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PRSay

JULY 10, 2020

As a discipline, crisis management is categorized into three phases: pre-crisis (which involves prevention and preparation); crisis response; and post-crisis (evaluation and preparation). Some crises pass quickly, and also have short post-crisis phases that are measured in days or weeks.

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PRSay

DECEMBER 2, 2020

When two of Boeing’s new 737 MAX passenger jets crashed within five months of each other in late 2018 and early 2019, killing a total of 346 people in Ethiopia and Indonesia, the company faced the worst crisis in its 100-year history. As for the legal team, that’s always a push and pull, whether you’re managing a crisis or an everyday issue.

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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 16, 2018

I recently received the following comment on a post I shared to social media: Sometimes it’s just hard to start talking about crisis preparedness because no one wants to be involved in a negative event. Gaining internal buy-in from the right people to implement a crisis ready culture can sometimes feel like an uphill battle.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

MAY 15, 2019

Boeing’s PR crisis deepened this week as a fuller picture emerged of its handling of serious problems surrounding the 737 Max. Instead, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenberg resisted action to curb use of the aircraft, insisting that the problem could be corrected by a software fix and better pilot training. CC BY-SA 4.0.

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NewsWhip

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

7th – 12th, and as an update to our crisis blog covering the incidents from Gucci, Prada, and more , we took a look at actions taken between then and now to see what’s changing with regard to diversity training and inclusion initiatives among huge designer brands. Engagements to articles about diversity training in 2019.

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PR for Anyone

JUNE 30, 2022

Many people think of PR as something that is only when you are in crisis… that the PR spin machine has to start when things are spiraling negatively. There are so many ways to position you as an industry expert that you might never have to deal with crisis PR and can just be the go-to person in your industry. I refer that out.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Few corporate CEOs will deny that a company’s reputation colors every aspect of business, including marketing, talent recruitment, employee relations, shareholder relations, and the customer experience. It’s often confused with crisis management, but while the two overlap, they are distinct. In fact, the 2017 U.S.

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