Crisis Planning

Failure to manage a single crisis effectively can seriously damage your organization, reputation, stakeholders, and clients. It can devastate a company. An emergency can occur anytime to any organization, and leaders must consider how a disaster could affect the organization, its employees, and the financial bottom line. In other words, a company can manage the crisis, or the crisis can manage the organization. The most common mistakes organizations make when facing a crisis are:

• Pretending a catastrophe doesn’t exist or postponing acknowledgement

• Addressing predicament management only when in the middle of one

• Treating media (particularly social media) as if it were the enemy

• Failing to face the issue with employees and stakeholders

• Talking down to stakeholders or using jargon they don’t understand

• Not documenting the disaster and the response from the beginning

• Lacking transparency or being dishonest

The LLF team of skilled facilitators, human resources specialists, business psychologists, mediators, and legal experts have the expertise you need to plan for a crisis and manage it effectively.

Reach out to Helen Ross Petty today to begin a conversation about your crisis planning needs. Hiring an outside facilitator is a vital element in the process of crisis planning. The consequences for organizations can be steep when stakeholders become disenfranchised. So why take chances? A well-crafted crisis management program can help your organization weather a crisis, ensure key stakeholders are informed, and protect the organization from external threats, or at least reduce their impacts. Practical crisis management addresses pre-crisis planning, in-crisis response, and post-crisis management. Our crisis management solutions have all the tools you need to manage a crisis effectively.