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Dealing With A Fatality 

By David Perl - The author presents a summary of things to consider when dealing with any unexpected fatality, be it a member of staff, customer or anyone else you may have a legal duty of care over. (Added: 19-Mar-2007 Hits: 235 )

Emergency Notification Methods: What Are The Risks?

By Harvey Fawcett - Harvey Fawcett conducts a risk assessment of the crisis communications methods available to businesses. (Added: 16-Mar-2007 Hits: 218 )

Emergency Procedures: Flowchart

By Joesph McHugh and Sandesh Sheth - Joseph McHugh and Sandesh Sheth describe how to construct an emergency procedure flowchart. (Added: 16-Mar-2007 Hits: 248 )

Great Leadership for Challenging Times

By Dan McCarthy - Here are 10 tips the author has written for leading in challenging times. Dan McCarthy says "I’m sure they are no better or worse than the rest, but they resonate for me, and I sincerely hope they will for you too." See what you think. (Added: 22-Mar-2010 Hits: 152 )

Guidelines For Improving and Protecting Corporate Reputation

By Deon Binneman - Deon Binneman describes various actions that should be taken to boost and bolster reputation. (Added: 16-Mar-2007 Hits: 229 )

How to Lead Your Staff Through Difficult Times

By Anne Houlihan - Before your next company challenge becomes apparent (or if you are in the midst of a challenge right now), take note of the following four guidelines. Following them during any crisis will shave precious moments off your reaction period and will enable your company to move forward in record speed. (Added: 22-Mar-2010 Hits: 123 )

How To Use Automated Notification Systems

By Harvey Fawcett - Without knowing how to effectively communicate using automated systems means that poorly defined and structured messages are simply propagated more quickly than using manual cascades. This paper aims to provide readers with an insight into how to use automated notification systems effectively. (Added: 16-Mar-2007 Hits: 192 )

Human Dynamics of Crisis Leadership: Empathy is Key to Building Trust in Leader-Follower Relationship

By Britta Stromeyer Esmail - This article discusses empathy being of ultimate importance to the competency of leaders. Learn how putting people first can build trusted crisis leaders. (Added: 29-Mar-2010 Hits: 158 )

IBD’s 10 Secrets to Success

By Cord Cooper - How executives handle crises can mean the difference between catastrophe and quick recovery. A lot hinges on the tone of early communication, says Bruce Blythe, founder and chief executive of Crisis Management International. (Added: 15-Mar-2007 Hits: 337 )

Incident Action List

By Alan Bastick - A comprehensive checklist has been provided by Alan Bastick, Business Continuity Coordinator, at Perth’s Edith Cowan University. The checklist provides a very useful document for inclusion in a business continuity plan and covers seven major areas. (Added: 19-Mar-2007 Hits: 350 )

Integrated Crisis Management Defined

By n a - Your organization should have a clear-cut definition of what constitutes a crisis and an extremely clear plan as to how to respond to such a crisis. Here are some areas for you to consider. (Added: 15-Mar-2007 Hits: 217 )

Leadership Development - Results focused Leadership thinking and practice from around the Globe

By Alan Yu - SARS and September 11: Portraits of Leadership under stress in Hong Kong and New York – Tung Chee Hwa and Rudy Giuliani. One and a half years after the devastating events of September 11, which sent airlines into bankruptcy and economies into a tailspin, the world has been gripped by an unprecedented wave of infections from a new and potent virus causing SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). Although the deadly virus has infected and killed people in at least 25 countries around the world, it is most serious in Hong Kong, which accounts for more than one third of all cases and half the deaths. It is also here that the disease has affected the economy most – the retail and tourism sectors are reporting business declines of up to 90%. It is thus in Hong Kong, more than anywhere else, that leadership is most needed to tackle the spreading virus ^new (Added: 20-Mar-2011 Hits: 156 )

Leading During Challenging Times: Engaging Your People to Address an Uncertain Future

By Jonathan Gilburg - The author's intention is to "share a perspective on how one might lead in this climate, with an understanding that many of the skills and attitudes I present may differ from those that propelled you to leadership in the first place." You are sure to find this article enlightening. (Added: 22-Mar-2010 Hits: 135 )

Leading Through Crisis

By Dr. Vinice Molinaro - Do you have the courage to take on this challenge and help your organization successfully navigate through during a crisis? If you are ready for the leadership challenge, then read on. We present below our top seven leadership strategies for leading decisively and positively through crisis. (Added: 22-Mar-2010 Hits: 109 )

Learning the Lessons of Apollo 13

By Micheal S. Lines - When disaster strikes an IS project, the project manager must also take calculated risks to help ensure the project's survival. Whether these are gambles with new technologies, new people or new processes, the certainty is that the status quo is not working - and that to continue down the present path will lead to failure. The project manager must have the guts to make the decisions to take the risks - and to face the consequences when failures occur. (Added: 13-Apr-2007 Hits: 282 )

Making a drama out of a crisis

By na - anagers are supposed to be able to glide effortlessly through the crises each day throws their way. In reality most end up dropping something else equally important, going all uncommunicative, working late or tearing about in a stress-induced panic. (Added: 17-Nov-2009 Hits: 263 )

Meeting The Challenge Of Uncertain Times

By Monica Visconti - Many organisations have still to translate their business continuity plans from hard-copy format into a technology-driven total business continuity process, says Monica Visconti. (Added: 19-Mar-2007 Hits: 166 )

Negligent Failure to plan: The next liability frontier?

By Bruce T. Blythe - How liable are you as a leader of your corporation if have have failed to plan how to respond to any type of disaster or crisis? Here are some thoughts for your consideration. Use them to begin some business continuity planning. (Added: 15-Mar-2007 Hits: 163 )

Reputational Risk Assessment

By Jonathan Hemus and Porter Novelli - They used to say that the first 24 hours of a crisis was critical. Now, it’s the first hour. (Added: 16-Mar-2007 Hits: 193 )

Scenario Planning

By Robert Heller - One major aspect of crisis management is scenario planning. Scenario planning helps one to think about the future and to consider what different courses of action should follow to meet different circumstances. One common failure though, during scenario planning is to not think about the possibility of events diverging from the single forecast. Read these tips about scenario planning (Added: 16-Mar-2007 Hits: 312 )