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When Digital Systems Fail: Building a Personal Backup Plan for Your Money
Article written by Dani Andrews In an increasingly digital world, convenience often comes at the cost of resilience. Most people now rely on a handful of financial apps, a primary…
How to Prepare Your Business for a Data Breach
Article written by Dani Andrews Make no mistake about it: data breaches are a serious threat. In the digital data-driven age, cyber security protection is a crucial consideration for any business owner in virtually every industry. From credit reporting bureau Equifax to alternative dating site Ashley Madison, data breaches have…
Achieving and Maintaining Optimal Crisis Management
Achieving and maintaining optimal crisis preparedness requires several activities throughout the year. From the review of the crisis management plan to the training and exercising of crisis management teams, achieving, and then maintaining optimal crisis preparedness is a continuous cycle. In the FREE Webinar scheduled for September 24, 2020, Rob and…
Assessing Workplace Culture Key to Crisis Management Success
Guest author: Ayme Zemke, 2020 has delivered a health crisis, an economic crisis and a social justice crisis. This unprecedented combination of crises and the widespread severity is something even the most senior crisis management professionals have never encountered in their careers. And something even the best crisis management…
The Ultimate Guide – Crisis Management Tabletop Exercises
Are you responsible for designing and delivering crisis management tabletop exercises for your organization? The Ultimate Guide to Crisis Management Tabletop Exercises is an eBook written by PreparedEx that explains in detail how your organization can develop and conduct tabletop exercises that will test and improve the efficacy of its crisis plans and…
Is Your Crisis Team Now in “Familiarity Breeds Complacency” Mode?
The COVID-19 pandemic has required organizations to form new routines. Many crisis management team members are working remotely and have now become used to the comfort of their home office, the convenience of Zoom meetings and all sorts of other new procedures driven by defensive measures taken against the pandemic…
Is Your Crisis Communications Pitch Perfect?
Guest contributor: Jo Detavernier, SCMP, APR – Owner of Detavernier Strategic Communication Over the last few decades, crisis communicators have been handed from academics different empirically validated theories that help them make the best possible choices in a crisis. Situational Crisis Communications Theory (SCCT) and Stealing Thunder are two…