الخميس، 27 أبريل 2017

Steps For Good Organizational Crisis Communication

By Gary Ward


Crisis communication is a way to defend an individual, company or organization where their reputation is being challenged by the public. These are unpredictable events where it can impact the performance of the organization seriously. It would also threaten the expectations of the stakeholders and may generate negative outcomes.

Preparation is vital for the potential damage they would receive to be minimized by informing all those people concerned of what just happened. Failure in doing so would make achieving the resolution harder and longer and might cause severe impacts with the finances and reputation. The following are some ways to properly prepare an organizational crisis communication in the city of Washington.

All potential crises which can occur must be anticipated by your team brainstorming for it or by knowing the possible outcome of a big decision. Doing this will make you realize they could be prevented through changing a few methods of currently existing operations. You would also have enough time to think for possible responses rather during an actual problem with lots of pressure.

Identify your team who will handle these situations which includes the heads of all the departments within. You can also have a consultant specializing in this and someone with the knowledge specifically related to the current crisis. Legal counsels are more concerned with the legal court rather than the public opinion which both are important.

Train some spokespersons in advanced authorized to give statements from the organizations so they would be ready and prepared when crises break. Some are better in written communication while some are better in public speaking so accordingly assigned the responsibilities. Good leaders does not necessarily mean good public speakers that is why spokespersons are used instead.

They must be properly trained in knowing the ways in giving information that are necessary for the interested parties to know. People tend to focus more on other things than those messages that are more important for the company. Having them trained helps in preparing them to minimize the possibilities of media and stakeholders misunderstanding it.

A notification system should be established to allow you to reach the stakeholder with the use of different methods available. This is a way to assure they the message will be received by everyone because using only one method does not guarantee their receipt. There is an available technology where it keeps contacting them until it is confirmed.

A monitoring system is also useful to track down what others are talking about you and the crisis currently being experienced. They are technologies available that can help you do this and these services are either free or not depending on the features you need. Monitoring their feedback will help you in adapting strategies and tactics accurately.

Develop holding statements based on the anticipated crises which will be delivered to everyone involved when one does happen. Assess clearly the situation if it happens before you implement the prepared actions. Analyze the situation after to know what you can learn from it to help in preparing and preventing for another one.




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