Sometimes it takes a crisis to solve one Millions of gallons of radioactive goop are threatening to leak into the ground of eastern Washington state, and it’s not the fun, ninja-turtle-creating kind. Here’s a quote, from a SeattlePI article by Shannon Dininny: The long-delayed cleanup of the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site became the subject …
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Frequently Asked Questions About Peer Coaching Groups
Peer Coaching Groups: Your FAQs Answered We assume that you have already read the information on the page Start a Virtual Support Group to Help With Stresses of COVID-19. The information on that page would answer all of the typical questions about planning and operating a support group. However, the following questions still tend to …
Keep your ear to the ground and catch the need for crisis management early on The earlier you detect a building crisis, the more effective your crisis management is able to be, but how can you catch a crisis that’s barely beginning to bubble up? These days, social media serves as the world-wide watercooler, fostering …
Short and Sweet: The Ideal Crisis Communication Messaging Mold crisis communication management messaging to fit a Tweet and reap the benefits. Today you’re more likely to catch a breaking story on Twitter than on the evening news. Both professional and amateur (read: everyone else) reporters are using Twitter to share and discuss current events every …
Crisis management means staying vigilant against potential threats A man in the United Kingdom is the 11th reported patient to be suffering from a new “SARS-like” virus and health officials are trying to determine if the virus is being passed from person to person. The virus was first reported in September when a Qatari man …
Did Carnival learn anything from a similar 2010 incident? As passengers stranded on Carnival Cruise’s Triumph share stories of disgusting conditions, including cabin carpets soaked with water and urine, overflowing toilets, sewage leaking down walls and four-hour lines for hot food, one has to wonder just how seriously Carnival takes its crisis management planning. The …
Preparedness lands cookie company in the perfect position to make a move Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve probably heard about Oreo’s spur of the moment ad, crafted literally DURING the Super Bowl blackout, that has the social media world abuzz. For those who missed it, this is the ad Oreo tweeted during …
I remember, as a child, dutifully memorizing the life-cycles of frogs and butterflies. Now as an evaluator, I find myself participating in a work-related life-cycle of sorts too, though no need of painstaking memorization here: Evaluation Planning –>Negotiating the plan –> Conducting the evaluation (negotiating this) –>Reporting –>Planning of future evaluations…–>(and the cycle continues) While …
