VIDEO: Catching Up With Rob Burton – California Earthquakes and PreparedEx
Catching up with Rob Burton – California earthquakes, new PreparedEx content and more!
Series authors: Mark Hoffman and Milena Maneva “Does anybody know what DAY it is?” is becoming a common question, with everyday looking and feeling the same. Back in the 1970s, the band Chicago had a hit song called “Does Anybody Know What Time It Is?” – similar questions are being asked everyday…
A Crisis Leader Needs to Think Strategically and Make Key Decisions for the Overall Management and Response Being able to coordinate multiple functional areas of an organization during a crisis requires detailed preparation. The CMT (Crisis Management Team) should have a leader as well as someone designated as his or her backup. In addition to…
Another important role of a Crisis Coordinator is to organize the CMT (Crisis Management Team) to respond to a crisis. The “Respond” part of the CC role is just one of the four phases. This important phase includes team logistics as well as assembly, documentations and plans briefings. In this short video clip from the Crisis Coordinator Webinar Series, Rob…
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 derail your organization. A crisis threatens or damages sales, profits, or…
Mark Hoffman, who we interviewed this past summer for the PreparedEx Podcast, wrote a great article for the International Crisis Management Conference (ICMC), “Ransomware as a Crisis“. In his article, Mark discusses the importance of cyber security in your crisis management program as well as the tool he developed, the Cyber Security Playbook, which walks the Crisis…
Simulated crisis tabletop exercises are like a flu shot: The vaccine won’t prevent the illness one-hundred percent of the time, but if you do get the flu, the vaccine will greatly reduce the illness’ severity and bring you back to health more quickly. The potential illness in your organization is, of course, a crisis….
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