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Looking Back to Move Forward: What 2025 Reinforced About Crisis Preparedness
As the year draws to a close, it is natural for organizations to reflect on what they accomplished, what they endured, and what still feels unresolved. For many leadership teams,…
Crisis Exercise Simulations Strengthen Relationships and Confidence
All organizations have a responsibility to plan and prepare for crises, but few know how to do it effectively. Crisis simulations are an excellent training tool that can be used to develop relationships among team members, employees and other stakeholders. It also provides practice for those responsible for managing crises…
How COVID Changed Crisis Communications and Media Relations
When a crisis of any kind hits, the goal has always been the same: put it into the past as quickly as possible. You establish your organization as the most authoritative source of credible information about the crisis and you own its narrative by living the mantra “tell it first,…
How to Prevent Groupthink in Crisis Communications
Guest contributor: Jo Detavernier, SCMP, APR – Owner of Detavernier Strategic Communication When crisis communications teams work perfectly together, they will achieve great results. When such alignment takes on the form of “groupthink” however, the results will often be far less than optimal, and possibly even disastrous. Groupthink happens when…
PreparedEx Partners with OnSolve to Provide Simulated Crisis Exercises that Optimize Organizational Crisis Preparedness
PreparedEx’s skilled crises experts and ultra-realistic simulated crisis scenarios, coupled with OnSolve’s AI-powered OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management help organizations take crisis preparedness plans to the next level July 26, 2021 – Middletown, RI – PreparedEx, a team of crisis experts who create and conduct simulated crisis exercises,…
The Missing Ingredient in Too Many Cyber Response Plans
By: Mark Hoffman, MBCI, CBCP Recently, a client asked me to review a Cybersecurity Response Plan template that they had purchased from a ‘leading’ research organization. This 21-page document was intended to be used by my client’s IT department in response to a successful cyberattack against their organization. It is…
Building the Perfect Social Media Crisis Management Plan
Guest Author – Natalia Andrew With over 3.96 billion active social media users worldwide, platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok have become mainstream sources of more than just entertainment. In fact, a social media report by Our World In Data states that Americans between the ages of 18-29 are more…