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Crisis Management In The Media

CRiSIS Planning And Media COMMUNICATION EXPERTS

The Drill’s crisis management consultants make news headlines: Part of our crisis planning ethos is to try to help businesses shape the developing narrative via judicious media and stakeholder engagement, to take crisis-hit companies from unsafe ground to safer terrain.

Also, when crises break, media journalists/producers often ask Drill experts - all crisis management specialists - to offer insights and observations to boost understanding of the crisis communication issues at play. Our experts have vital international and hands-on crisis management consultancy expertise, which is transferred into our crisis management planning tools and crisis software.

Drawing on years of frontline crisis management consultancy, Drill staff enact crisis fixes and crisis solutions to help businesses overcome their PR and operational problems. Your crisis response plans can be improved just by reading some of the articles below, featuring our proprietary approaches and methodologies for crisis management puzzles. The articles do not constitute specific advice or counsel, but we believe their principles to be, without guarantee, thought-provoking! So when you’re ready for better crisis management planning or preparation, call us.

We hope you enjoy the read.

Why you don't need your boss in a crisis

Drill Associate George Noon looks at why your boss may be a hindrance when a crisis hits; and the secret may be that the power dynamic in the crisis team is more than a bit wrong! George explores how competent, functional specialists operating at the frontline of the crisis simulation pay less attention to comms-critical tasks when the leader is present! It’s true - the presence of the boss actually may diminish the efforts of their underlings whose ‘need to defer and please’ comes to the fore.

BOSS AS A DISINCENTIVISING INFLUENCE

Needless to say, it’s of little value to companies or Orgs, when their frontline crisis communications experts defer and desist from critical crisis management tasks by seeking approvals, endorsements and verifications, for the sorts of decisions that just 30 minutes earlier, they'd been competently determining among themselves. George’s article - published in AFR - poses the question, “Is you boss bad for your crisis management plans?”


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