Crisis Communications Planning
Crisis Communications
As the world continues to adjust to current events, is your organization’s crisis communications plan linked to your IT, Cyber or workplace emergency incident plan?
Our crisis communications engagement begins with an audit and/or an update of existing crisis plans … or we create a new one tailored specifically to your business. An effective crisis communications plan will identify the role of communications in crisis readiness and management, and can help mitigate costs, liability, and reputational damage.
Crisis Communication Plan checklist:
- When was it last updated?
- Does it include organization-wide inputs?
- Is it accessible remotely?
- Who is on the crisis management team? Does it include all major business continuity functions?
- Is there a decision tree?
- Are there internal and external crisis communication templates and instructions?
- Are there pre-approved statements ready for immediate use?
Take our Crisis Assessment to help assess your crisis readiness.
CommCore’s Latest Observer
It’s a Matter of Trust
The recently released Edelman Trust Barometer, in time for the World Economic Forum in Davos, reminds us of the Billy Joel song, It’s a Matter of Trust.
Amid the wealth of statistics, one key finding stood out: “CEOs must lead from the front and communicate company policies and actions on geopolitics.” And for the first time in a while the barometer saw a positive uptick for leaders.
In terms of trust, business still leads the way with 62% (up 1%), but government saw a 3% uptick in trust (now 56%) in the first five months of 2022. As discussed in an earlier Observer, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been a role model in the way he has communicated since the start of the war building support for his country and its actions. This may explain the increase for government leaders.
CommCore on PIO Podcast
CommCore’s CEO, Andy Gilman, was interviewed on The PIOPodcast for Public Information Officers. Andy covered how PIO’s can improve trust in the community of their police officers. In addition to trainings PIO’s should do for their executives and staff. PIOPodcast is for public information and public affairs officers who work in public sector organizations such as Police, Fire, EMS, FEMA, state, local, and federal government organizations.
Meet our Summer Associates!
We are excited to announce our summer team for the 2022 semester. Read our interviews with each of them to learn what inspires them to work in Communications and PR. Click on image below for interviews.