Melissa Agnes

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

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. Step 1: Identify your stakeholders.

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Remote PR Jobs

OCTOBER 29, 2024

If you did something similar in a previous position, include a specific example and how it could work for the new company as well. Showcase your PR and Communication Skills To elevate your PR or Communications cover letter, bring your experiences to life by sharing specific, impactful examples that showcase your unique blend of skills!

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Prowly

APRIL 9, 2024

It could be a simple typo in a marketing campaign all the way to a full-blown international scandal. Crisis management examples show that some brands handle these crises well, while others… Not so much.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 7, 2016

A couple weeks back, I published an article that discussed best practices for communicating with your key stakeholders in a crisis. Depending on your organization, your internal stakeholders can be anyone from your employees, to your volunteers, candidates, and so on. The importance of internal crisis communications.

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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.

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Melissa Agnes

JUNE 19, 2014

Since the podcast on “ doing crisis communications right “, with Captain Chris Hsiung and Shino Tanaka, aired last week, I’ve received some really great follow up questions from listeners. Your follow up questions answered: Doing crisis communications right.

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Melissa Agnes

MARCH 6, 2018

Becoming crisis ready is a process. Fortunately, there’s a method to this process that can take any organization, of any size, type, and industry, from their current level of crisis readiness, straight through to building an invincible brand—which, as you know, is the ultimate benefit of being crisis ready.

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Onclusive

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Here are some examples of political factors to monitor: Current legislature Tax policies Fiscal policy Trade restrictions Corruption. Here are a few examples of economic factors that might be important to track: Unemployment Interest rates Inflation rates Foreign exchange rates Consumer confidence and spending. Economic factors.

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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 4, 2018

Note: The following is an excerpt taken from my new book, Crisis Ready–Building an Invincible Brand in an Uncertain World , which is available for purchase on Amazon. The importance of solid and practical crisis management governance model. This is the team responsible for the organization’s crisis management and response.

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PRSay

MARCH 25, 2019

Hackers can also find and release damaging internal correspondence and documents. ” So, what are the best ways to lessen the potential negative impacts of your internal communications going external? Treat every piece of internal communication as if it were external. If the internal email goes out at 10:30 a.m.,

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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.

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PRSay

JANUARY 13, 2021

As you think about your internal communications plans for 2021, you must first recognize the challenges and changes that occurred in 2020. While this is not always possible due to resources, you might try teaming internal communicators up to examine each other’s area of control. Nobody plans to fail. They just fail to plan.

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Presspage

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In a time of crisis, they may see more information about your organization than during ordinary times; they may believe the real-time accounts of others over you; share the most dramatic of stories (in many cases leaving out facts); and decide in a split moment if they support and trust you. However, not every crisis is predictable.

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 29, 2016

The question was: “Is there a secret formula for ensuring our crisis team remains calm in a fast-paced, high profile crisis?” Not to mention that, as a study recently confirmed, stress is contagious , which makes it even more important to effectively manage in a crisis. ” Good question.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Instead of vague objectives like “build positive visibility” or “support sales efforts” the goals should be accompanied by specific tactics and deliverables, e.g. “write and place generate 3-5 bylined pieces per month on the following topics…” There’s a lack of internal consensus about PR.

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Melissa Agnes

JUNE 6, 2015

Welcome to episode #052 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Monika Lancucki. When the company Monika Lancucki worked for went into receivership, they knew they were in for a crisis management challenge. How to prepare and manage a corporate crisis involving receivership. Running time: 54:31.

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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.”. But the most far-reaching recent example is that of Susan Fowler. Lately it seems particularly relevant.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Armchair PR experts get lots of mileage from critiquing crisis management by major brands and businesses this time of year. But what about the crisis situations that are handled well? But in the spirit of fair play, here are some examples of reputation management that succeeded in 2017. And then there’s Uber.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Remote work will be a permanent option for many employees, and all internal and externally focused campaigns must be fully digital. For example, content campaigns will be informed by customer data and therefore must focus on topics that truly resonate with specific segments, based on where and how they consume it.

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Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Lou and I go into even more detail on this subject in episode #024 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast. A crisis is a change. For example, some threats might include: financial earnings, reputation, human life, or physical assets. In the uncertain environment of crisis, responders must understand these three attributes of risk.

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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 11, 2018

Unfortunately for Facebook, the Cambridge Analytica crisis it is now managing is the direct result of an issue that went mismanaged for years. But the thing is, this crisis was predictable. This crisis was foreseeable. Had Facebook been crisis ready on this high-risk scenario, they would not be in crisis management mode today.

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Wadds Inc.

JULY 8, 2024

A recent conversation between crisis communications experts Dr. W. Timothy Coombs is best known as a practitioner-turned-academic for developing Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT). SCCT categorises crisis events into three areas: victim, accidental and preventable.

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Melissa Agnes

JUNE 4, 2014

This, ladies and gentlemen, is a great example of the power of social media in emergency and crisis situations. How have you, or could you, leverage social media and mobile technology as a crisis preparedness strategy? Case Studies Technology and Crisis Communications' Step 2: Plan and train your team. Are they trained?

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Flack's Revenge

AUGUST 14, 2019

A PR crisis could ravage your reputation, and any number of potential developments can trigger one. There are ways to reduce the impact of a PR crisis, the best of which is to prepare for one. This can be achieved even though the specific circumstances that touch off a crisis cannot always be foreseen. Coach your spokespersons.

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Cision

JUNE 26, 2015

Without a crisis communication plan in place to stop threats from escalating to crises, brands often fail to save their reputations from becoming tarnished. Want to learn how to crush a crisis before it begins? Peter advises implementing these eight steps into your crisis communication plan: 1. Identify Influencers.

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PRSay

JUNE 9, 2021

In early May, the state of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against Publicis Health for its work with Purdue Pharma, claiming its “unfair and deceptive” marketing practices helped fuel the national opioid crisis. based firm that specializes in crisis management and health care communications. Publicis Health, part of Publicis Groupe S.A.,

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Cision

AUGUST 25, 2016

Without a crisis communications plan in place, no one will know what to do when problems arise during your event,” says Cision Content Strategist James Rubec, one of the speakers during next week’s Managing Communication Challenges webinar. “No But none of these actually count as a crisis unto itself,” explains James. Protests. “In

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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. For example, Apple and Disney are just two of the powerful brands taking steps to stop doing business with, and in, Russia. Who should be involved in the decision-making process?

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PRSay

AUGUST 14, 2020

We asked him how recent events have influenced international perceptions of the United States and its brands, and how the COVID-19 crisis has affected global communications. For example, in the U.K., We have long been trying to understand the international perceptions of America.

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Presspage

MAY 8, 2017

A crisis can do irreparable damage to an organization, but at the same time it also presents an ideal time to review and renew current processes. For a crisis to have a silver lining, certain things need to occur. Alton Towers, a British theme park, provided a commendable example of this through its handling of a crisis in July 2015.

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Melissa Agnes

APRIL 9, 2018

Note: The following is an excerpt taken from my new book, Crisis Ready–Building an Invincible Brand in an Uncertain World , which is available for purchase on Amazon. Whom should you include within your crisis management governance? For example, consider a cybersecurity crisis. Not every situation is black and white.

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Wadds Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A review of Communicate in a Crisis by Kate Hartley. When is a crisis a major threat, and when is it just a Twitter storm? Communicate in a Crisis by Kate Hartley sets out to answer that question. No-one should be surprised that “perma-crisis” was declared Oxford English Dictionary word of the year 2022.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JUNE 5, 2019

Yet even if the PR program is executed internally, public relations and influencer marketing can help put a tech company on the map. Business software, for example, usually has a lengthy selling cycle and comes at a significant cost. Still, the decision to hire a PR agency can be a controversial one for a cash-strapped startup.

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Melissa Agnes

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

When Crisis Comes Calling: Crisis Management for Business. Melissa Agnes, international crisis management speaker and consultant, was a recent guest on The Social Network Show, a radio show broadcasted out of Las Vegas, Nevada. Within this interview, Melissa discusses: Real-world examples of successful crisis management.

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PR Fuel

MAY 31, 2022

Almost 70-percent of businesses recently surveyed experienced a crisis in the past five years. Negative information about your business can travel quickly, and crisis management is critical. How you handle a business crisis reveals your character and skill at handling a catastrophe. Gives Necessary Information. Shows Initiative.

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Melissa Agnes

JULY 19, 2016

Live-streaming is an emerging reality that you should be addressing and incorporating into your crisis preparedness program. It’s no secret that social media and mobile technology have changed the landscape for crisis management. Can live-streaming be leveraged to your crisis management advantage?

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Melissa Agnes

MAY 2, 2016

I often get asked the following question: What should we include in our organization’s crisis management plan? 5 important elements to include in your crisis plan. 5 important elements to include in your crisis plan. Not all incidents and issues escalate to crisis level. Internal escalation protocol(s).

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