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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 Management Tips for Small Business Owners and How to Overcome Them
Guest author: Leona Harrison Regardless of its size or business field, any business can be affected by a crisis. However, successful businesses emerge better than they were before the crisis. This post will share invaluable tips on managing crises when they occur. Additionally, we shall also look at how to…
5 Different Types of Business Crises
Guest Author – Natalia Andrew Any unforeseen event that causes fear and anxiety, and threatens to destabilize a company is called a business crisis. Through proper training, contingency planning, and sharp decision-making, many established businesses have been able to weather these crises over the years. Below we’ve outlined the most…
Three Ways Simulated News Can Transform Your Scenario
When planning your crisis exercise and it’s injects, consider these three ways simulated news stories can transform your scenario and bring it to life: 1. Realism Many times we get the first hint of an unfolding situation by turning on the morning or evening news. We learn of an impending…
FirstLook Supports Efforts to Improve Cybersecurity Maturity
Guest Contributor: Heather Engel, Managing Director and Cyber Strategist, Strategic Cyber Partners If your company has any type of regulatory cybersecurity requirement, chances are those requirements include a Cyber Incident Response Plan. Whether DFARS 252.204-7012 to PCI to ISO 27001, incident response is a critical piece of your compliance and…
Is Your Organization Planning for Black Elephant Events?
Why don’t we talk about those “Elephant in the Room” scenarios? Those situations that are obvious to everyone, yet leaders still leave to chance. What are Black Elephant scenarios and is your organization preparing for them? Lessons to be learned from the Covid-19 pandemic are still being formulated even as…
4 Crisis Coordinator Resources
1. I was a Crisis Coordinator at the age of 18… Veterans gain invaluable skills during their service that can be translated and utilized in the crisis coordinator role. In this short video, Rob Burton discusses his own experience as a young soldier and what he skills he carried over…