Crisis Communication Management Training
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Crisis communication is an initiative that aims at protecting the reputation of the organization and maintaining its public image. Crisis Communication specialists fight against several challenges that tend to harm the reputation and image of the organization. Crisis Communication specialists strive hard to overcome tough situations and help the organization come out of difficult situations in the best possible and quickest way.
Crisis communication management is a five -day training course on how to plan crisis communication strategies, systems and resources. This course covers how to ready your communication function to respond rapidly and effectively in a crisis to manage perceptions in media and online. You will learn best practices in crisis communication strategy, issues mapping, risk assessment, systems, teams, protocols, and resources including crisis manuals and online tools.
The Course participants will learn how to handle difficult questions from the media. How to best come across on radio and TV are explored as well as how to brief journalists during a crisis. Social media (as friend and foe) during a crisis is examined and how best to defend against online reputation damage and ensuring image restoration is achieved.
Course Outline
- Crisis communication strategy best practice
- Principles of reputation management
- Crisis dynamics: lessons for how crises originate and develop
- Stages of crisis communication
- The five Ws of a crisis – what stakeholders want to know
- Understanding the importance and urgency of critical decision making
