Crisis Ready® Downloadable Resource Crisis Ready® Formula for Responding to Emotional Escalation Navigating emotion can easily become one of the most challenging aspects of managing issues and crises. Why? Because emotion clouds judgment and cannot be overcome with pure logic. Meanwhile, attempting to respond to and overcome emotion with rationale is an unfortunate mistake we often […]
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Establishing 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 […]
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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 ReadingCrisis Readying Against Stress: The Science of Building Personal and Professional Resilience
Having worked in fast-paced corporate environments for over 20 years, and as an HR Executive Leader, resilience was a key skill I looked for in candidates. I believe that a person’s level of resilience determines that individual’s level of success, not only in business but in life in general. I often asked myself ‘why do […]
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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