How COVID Changed Crisis Communications and Media Relations

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...
Is Your Crisis Communications Pitch Perfect?

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...
Practice = Better Discipline

Practice = Better Discipline

  “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”  ~ Stephen Covey   After leaving the military in 2001, it took me several years to adapt to the corporate world. The changes varied from...
Creating Chaos for a Purpose

Creating Chaos for a Purpose

We specialize in chaos.   In fact, we create chaos by developing simulated crisis exercises that test and validate crisis teams at all levels of an organization. In this blog I’m going to discuss three crisis scenarios that we have found to be of serious...