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 overcome the crisis. To kick…
Series authors: Mark Hoffman and Milena Maneva Previous article: Return-to-Office: Sample Return-to-Office Protocol This is the final installment of our five-part series on Return-to-Office. Milena and I want to thank you for following our series and offer a special thanks to those of you who joined our webinar. In this final segment,…
So many business continuity issues must be considered over the next few weeks and months – – ranging from business survival, protecting employee health, protecting existing customer relations while gaining new ones, protecting supply chains, liquidity and so on. Near Horizon — A Covid-19 Recovery Exercise is designed to help your senior managers and crisis…
58 people died and over 500 were injured during a music festival in Las Vegas on October 1st, 2017. A lone actor shot at festival goers from the Mandalay Bay Hotel room, a scenario even the most seasoned security experts couldn’t have predicted. In this episode we talk to a security advisor James DeMeo who…
Preparing your crisis management team is essential. Many personnel that make up a typical crisis team come from various functions of the company and have never been exposed to or had to manage crises during their careers. This podcasts uncovers some of the minimum requirements that a crisis team must have in place for them…
Communities are not just made up of homes and apartments. Many communities have businesses that provide jobs and other services to those communities. Major cities have businesses that are heavily integrated into their communities and so do some smaller cities and even towns. It’s imperative that businesses understand their communities and it is equally important…
Being able to communicate during a crisis is essential for any organization. Understanding what to say and how to say it should be part of the crisis preparedness planning process. All stakeholders need to be addressed and your spokespersons should know what to say when the media request an interview. Have you ever considered being…
In episode 13 of the PreparedEx podcast, we discuss exercise criteria and provide some examples of exercise criteria and how PreparedEx evaluate using a tool known as Fulcrum. Benchmarking one facility or one area of the business against others essential provides better data and overall understand of where the organization is with respect to readiness….