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Crisis Communications 101
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Effective communication
during a crisis can make
the different between
quickly resolving the
situation and it becoming
a nightmare.
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These 12 major principles
will help you take charge
of the next crisis.
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1. Designate a single point of contact for the press, but have a backup.
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Set up both an email
address and a phone
number, both of which
should be manned just
about 24/7.
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Be sure to have at least
one backup point of
contact.
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2. The CEO/President isn't usually the right person to be the spokesperson.
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Reserve them for press
contact when a critical
message needs to be
conveyed, a more
authoritative presence is
needed, or there is
controversy.
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The most serious of
situations still call for the
CEO to speak from the
start.
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3. Appoint a crisis leader with a backup.
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Your crisis leader needs to
be versatile.
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The crisis leader needs to
be appointed ahead of
time, not in the heat of
the crisis.
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4. Have a crisis communication plan.
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Cover all the bases,
including media, social
media, employees and
stakeholders.
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Jonathan Bernstein’s “Five
Tenets of Crisis
Communications”:
prompt, compassionate,
honest, informative and
interactive.
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5. Practice your crisis communication plan.
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Go over each person’s
crisis role and work
through various crisis
simulations.
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Using an online virtual
command center (incident
management software),
you can create pre-defined
scenarios that can be used
during practice runs.
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6. Have tools in place to monitor the news media and social media.
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TweetDeck and HootSuite
are great tools—free and
paid versions.
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Enterprise tools include
Radian6 and Sysomos.
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7. Have a central place where employees can go for the latest information.
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This could be
on your
intranet or a
hotline.
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A confused and
possibly
frightened
workforce isn’t
capable of
putting in the
effort needed to
rise above crisis.
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8. Be forthcoming. Don’t lie or spin the truth.
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If there is blame, admit it
and share what you will do
to fix the problem and
how you will make sure it
doesn’t happen again.
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Follow through and
actually take the actions
you promised.
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9. Have emergency boilerplate language for the early moments of the crisis.
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Today’s public calls for
near-immediate reporting
on just about anything.
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Prepare holding statements
for the media, such as: “We
are investing all available
resources in uncovering
what happened and will
share more information with
you as it becomes available.”
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10. Have counter-measures ready if you need to respond to wide-spread rumors.
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It’s very likely that
damaging rumors will
start on social media.
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Start before a crisis ever
hits by getting involved in
social media and building
an audience.
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Ask followers to help
spread the truth and refer
people to your
organization’s webpage.
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11. Social media needs its own crisis communication plan.
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You can’t apply the same
rules to social media crisis
communications as you
can traditional media
outlets and expect it to
work.
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Don’t forget to include in
your crisis simulations
hurdles like enraged fans
or pages flooded with
comments.
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12. Prepare for the unexpected.
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Craft specific plans for
foreseeable types of
crises, as well as generic
plans for broad categories
of unpredictable crises.
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Good emergency
notification and incident
management software
allows you to create pre-
defined templates for any
type of scenario.
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When an event occurs,
select a template and your
teams have the people,
plans and tasks for that
type of event from the
start.
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You can also use the
software to test your
plans under real-
world conditions.
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Crisis Communications 101
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Crisis Communications 101