If you don’t KNOW what happens when you walk into a room, then find out. If you don’t LIKE what happens when you walk into a room, then change something…even if it’s the room you choose. S.B. stilled the conference room before he entered. As soon as his staff heard his footsteps in the hallway, […]
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Is Risk-Based Planning Dead?
My good friend Andres Calderon recently posted a piece on LinkedIn questioning the use of risk-based thinking in crisis readiness and preparedness. Within his piece, Andres identifies several weaknesses in the approach, looking at what admittedly are some significant challenges to accurately assessing risk. These include: Understanding chance and probability is challenging. Working with such […]
Continue ReadingIs It More Complicated To Be Crisis Ready While Your Teams Work From Home? (Part 2 of 2)
As the workforce finds its way and adapts to the many challenges and changes brought on by 2020, we asked the following question to members of the Crisis Ready Institute’s Global Advisory Council, which is comprised of an experienced and diverse range of Crisis Ready leaders. The question: Is It More Complicated To Be Crisis Ready […]
Continue ReadingThe Crisis Ready® Formula for Responding to Emotional Escalation
Crisis Ready® Resource 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 see leaders make in […]
Continue ReadingMindset Shapes Impact: Using the Concept of ‘Constructive Ideas’ in Your Crisis Readiness
During this time of global crisis management, I think it’s important for each of us—individually, professionally, and as a collective—to realize that we have within us the power to transform some of the negatives of our current situation into positives. Doing so requires certain adaptations, as well as a commitment to and repetition of, ‘constructive […]
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