11 August 2022 by Leah Tedesco
My screen time is ridiculous–I’m not ashamed of it. If I can scroll, I’m there baby, and I’m disciplined with it, I have my routine: 40+ minute YouTube videos when I’m eating or doing other tasks; Instagram when I want to click through Stories and see what acquaintances are up…
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5 January 2021 by Claire Turner
There have been no shortage of crises in 2020, but who has responded well? We’ve been analysing a wide variety of organisation and individual crisis responses and picked out some highlights . Here is a shortlist of some of the ones we particularly rate and why. But first: What makes…
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11 December 2020 by Steph Gray
Scenario planning covers broadening thinking, stepping back to see trends, exploring consequences and developing shortcuts - but how can it help teams hold onto their strategic focus during a crisis too?
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16 October 2020 by Steph Gray
We’ve just wrapped up a virtual simulation with a client’s senior management team, working through their process to handle a serious COVID incident affecting their operations and impacting a local community. Here's some lessons to think about for your COVID crisis preparedness.
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11 March 2020 by Chris Malpass
The COVID-19 emergency is forcing many teams to quickly rethink how they conduct day-to-day operations and to implement processes to enable their people to work remotely as a means of halting the spread of the virus. We’re finding that a number of our clients are opting for virtual deliveries of…
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3 December 2019 by Steph Gray
The popular picture of crisis communication is maybe a high-stakes press conference, or the chief executive being grilled by a well-known broadcast journalist or politician. We imagine brand reputations living or dying by how well leaders can demonstrate empathy on camera; or how adroitly the press conference can be stage-managed.…
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2 April 2019 by Steph Gray
Our typical exercises tend to run for 3 or 4 hours, often in a pair of adjoining boardrooms with good wifi, clear diaries and coffee on tap. The participants get to feel the shock and stress of dealing with something unexpected and fast-paced, and understand how well they work together…
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20 February 2019 by Steph Gray
As you can imagine, the last couple of years have seen us get a lot more enquiries from clients looking to stress-test their crisis preparedness. Cyber incidents are especially tricky to handle, for a number of reasons: The information vacuum is more acute and extended It can take a while…
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24 January 2019 by Steph Gray
Since we launched Social Simulator back in 2010, we’ve seen huge changes in the social media landscape and the way that news breaks and crises are managed online. In recent months we’ve been helping clients rehearse their readiness to handle fake news and malicious digital manipulation, blend media relations with…
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7 January 2019 by Howard Gossington
Our awareness of it may be higher, but there’s little sign of fake news losing its disruptive power. Is your organization prepared to deal with a fake news storm?
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