Part 2: Successful Threat Management Programs Begin with the Ability to Properly Detect a Threat Successful threat management programs apply an approach of detection, assessment, and management to protect an organization. An organization’s strategy toward that first step, detection of a threat, is a pretty good indicator of how effective the threat management program is […]
Continue ReadingEstablishing an Effective Threat Management Program (Part 1 of 5)
Part 1: Defining and Categorizing Threats for your Organization When I learned that the Crisis Ready™ Community Monthly Mastermind session for July will discuss threat and risk assessment from a law enforcement perspective, I registered for the event immediately. Primarily because I am always interested in learning how other people approach threat assessment, but the […]
Continue ReadingThe Stress is Adding Up: Examining How To Become Crisis Ready for Stress
We have now been operating under crisis conditions for more than 12 weeks. Millions of people have become sick, and hundreds of thousands are dead. We have endured months of physical distancing, with associated social and economic impacts. People are challenging lock-down measures around the world. Generations of inequity and inequality are reaching a societal […]
Continue Reading5 Steps to Mitigate the Impact of Severe Weather Season in a COVID-19 World
Just in case anybody has forgotten, the Atlantic Hurricane Season opens on 1 June. The first named storms of the year, Arthur and Bertha, have already come and gone. 500-year flooding events are happening in Michigan, with two dams already breached. The USDA Forest Service is reporting eight large wildfires across the country, and Tornado […]
Continue Reading“Flattening the Curve”: The Ultimate Crisis Communication Failure
I woke up earlier this week to find a piece of click-bait in my news feed (yes, I fell for it and clicked). The article proclaimed that “Social Distancing did not actually decrease the number of COVID-19 infections in the United States.” Once I got past my emotional response to the headline, I realized that […]
Continue Reading
