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5 Leadership Skills the Army Taught Me
I managed to leave the British Army without too many scars. Throughout my 13 years in the military, I was able to craft many skills that made me a better soldier as well as a leader. In this article, I discuss five leadership lessons that the military taught me....
PreparedEx Podcast Episode 2: 5 Steps to Creating and Delivering Tabletop Exercises
The 5 Steps to Creating and Delivering Tabletop Exercises was designed to help organizations improve their existing crisis simulation exercises or create new ones that are engaging and professional. In Episode 2, PreparedEx’s Rob Burton discusses the 5 Steps in...
9 Questions to Ask During a Crisis
When an incident happens it is essential that the top management of an organization establish, define and document their policy for crisis management, which includes clear directions and expectations. Related: How to Build a Strong Crisis Management Foundation It...
PreparedEx Podcast Episode 1 – Interview with Don Estes
Donald Estes has over 20 years of experience conducting research, analysis, and war gaming support to the Department of Defense, DHS, other government agencies and commercial clients. During a distinguished career as a naval officer in military intelligence, Mr. Estes...
State of the Art: Communication Coordination during High Risk Events
Check out this great article from John Rainford, the Director of The Warning Project. The Warning Project is launching a new series of articles aiming to try and capture, analyze and debate the best the evolving field of emergency risk communication has to offer....
Pros and Cons of Social Media Before, During and After a Crisis
When a crisis, such as a natural disaster, affects the public, social media will always come into play. While social media is an increasingly vital aspect of crisis communications, it usually does not exist on its own. Social media supplements and...
How Hostiles Prepare to Attack
The Lafayette, Louisiana movie theater shooting was methodically planned. The shooter, John Russell Houser, is reported to have visited other theaters prior to the attack and had been to the Grand 16 movie theater in Lafayette at least once prior. So, why did he...
The Vulnerability Assessment: 5 Steps to Gain Management Support for Crisis Planning
It’s not news: media headlines tell shocking stories of organizational crises every. single. day. Moreover, while some crises happen suddenly, they are much more likely to smolder, perhaps for years before they erupt. A crisis may not be shock and awe, but can still...
Risk Communication Preparedness: MERS CoV & The Stigma Dilemma
The problem facing South Korean Health Minister Moon Hyung-pyo was painfully obvious and played out during his May 31 press conference in Seoul regarding MERS CoV. As MERS CoV cases continued to climb and fear of the disease threatened to envelop the nation, the...
Communicating Risk to a Distrustful Public – What works; What doesn’t
In the May 4th New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell wrote an article called, “The Engineer’s Lament: Two ways of thinking about automotive safety.” To the engineer, Gladwell writes, a car’s safety lies on a continuum of extremes ranging from totally unsafe to completely safe....