The previous post by Erik Anez, How To Calculate Critical Risks Within Your Organization, demonstrates the role that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills and understanding play in developing crisis management skills and being an effective Crisis Manager. Those hard skills help answer the “why” questions that justify preparedness, response, and recovery decisions within […]
Continue ReadingIs It More Complicated To Be Crisis Ready While Your Teams Work From Home? (Part 1 of 2)
As the workforce finds its way and adapts to the many challenges and changes brought on by 2020, we asked this question to members of the Crisis Ready Institute’s Global Advisory Council, which is comprised of an interesting and experienced array of Crisis Ready leaders across diverse fields. The following response is that of Aaron […]
Continue ReadingEstablishing an Effective Threat Management Program (Part 5 of 5)
Part 5: Building Your Threat Management Program Crisis Ready® organizations start with a mindset that it’s not about the tools, it’s how you use them. In this post, I’m going to talk about how to get out of a reactive, response-focused threat management mindset and build a Crisis Ready® Threat Management Program. It is important […]
Continue ReadingEstablishing an Effective Threat Management Program (Part 4 of 5)
Part 4: Best Practices for Threat Management When it comes to threat management: Recognizing that a threat exists—that there is the potential for harm—is a sound beginning. Assessing the potential threat(s), to identify likely consequences and their impacts on your organization, is an essential next step. Proactively managing the threat(s) in order to mitigate associated […]
Continue ReadingEstablishing an Effective Threat Management Program (Part 3 of 5)
Part 3: Properly Assessing a Threat and Analyzing its Risk While the terms ‘threat assessment’ and ‘risk analysis’ have been frequently used interchangeably, they are not the same. Threat assessment is focused on determining what the associated potential harm could be (how could it hurt me?). Threat assessment focuses on possible consequences vs. probable consequences. […]
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