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Managing Uncertainty Podcast - Episode #82: Speed in a Crisis
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses the need for rapid decision making and communications during a crisis or incident.
Reflecting on a year of crisis exercises, Bryan discusses crisis management, crisis communications, crisis management frameworks, crisis plans, crisis plan annexes, prepared crisis communications messages, holding statements and more.
Related Episodes & Blog Posts
Episode #4: The Crisis Team
Episode #19: Exercises are Boring
Episode #34: Communicating after the Boom
Episode #40: Why we exercise our plans
Our Crisis Communications 101 Intro Course
Bryghtpath’s Crisis Communications Services
Episode Transcript
Bryan Strawser: Hello and welcome to the Managing Uncertainty podcast. This is Brian Strawser, principal and chief executive here at Bryghtpath. I’m running solo on today’s podcast and I’d like to talk a little bit about the need for speed, so to speak, during a crisis or during a major incident. We’ve now facilitated a number of exercises over the course of the year. And one thing that we keep coming back to, coming out of these exercises is the need to get to a decision, the need to get the communication out, the need to make the strategic decisions that need to happen early in a crisis to set the stage for success. And so I want to dive into that a little bit and I think we’re clear about, I think everyone is clear about the need for rapid decision making during a crisis and the need to get your message out from a crisis communication standpoint once things start to become public or you’ve decided to make them public.
Bryan Strawser: But how does one achieve that? How do you get to that point in the crisis situation or in the exercise? As we’ve talked previously about how do you set up a crisis management team, an incident management team and kind of set the stage for this. It starts with having that basic crisis framework in place. That there are clear roles and responsibilities amongst the team on what every role or what every team does that they bring to the table. That you have created a decision making and communication framework that clearly lays out the decision-making rights of the individuals in the room. For example, who has to approve the activation of the crisis team, who is the final decision maker where there’s disagreement, who approves the communication, who needs to see that?
Bryan Strawser: Those are all basic things that should be in your initial crisis management framework and plan. And then once you have that in place, and we’ve always talked about at this point, you begin to prepare for known risks and threats. What are the five, 10, 15, 20 things that you think you are at most risk at or that your data says you’re at most risk to have happen?
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In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses the need for rapid decision making and communications during a crisis or incident.
Reflecting on a year of crisis exercises, Bryan discusses crisis management, crisis communications, crisis management frameworks, crisis plans, crisis plan annexes, prepared crisis communications messages, holding statements and more.
Related Episodes & Blog Posts
Episode #4: The Crisis Team
Episode #19: Exercises are Boring
Episode #34: Communicating after the Boom
Episode #40: Why we exercise our plans
Our Crisis Communications 101 Intro Course
Bryghtpath’s Crisis Communications Services
Episode Transcript
Bryan Strawser: Hello and welcome to the Managing Uncertainty podcast. This is Brian Strawser, principal and chief executive here at Bryghtpath. I’m running solo on today’s podcast and I’d like to talk a little bit about the need for speed, so to speak, during a crisis or during a major incident. We’ve now facilitated a number of exercises over the course of the year. And one thing that we keep coming back to, coming out of these exercises is the need to get to a decision, the need to get the communication out, the need to make the strategic decisions that need to happen early in a crisis to set the stage for success. And so I want to dive into that a little bit and I think we’re clear about, I think everyone is clear about the need for rapid decision making during a crisis and the need to get your message out from a crisis communication standpoint once things start to become public or you’ve decided to make them public.
Bryan Strawser: But how does one achieve that? How do you get to that point in the crisis situation or in the exercise? As we’ve talked previously about how do you set up a crisis management team, an incident management team and kind of set the stage for this. It starts with having that basic crisis framework in place. That there are clear roles and responsibilities amongst the team on what every role or what every team does that they bring to the table. That you have created a decision making and communication framework that clearly lays out the decision-making rights of the individuals in the room. For example, who has to approve the activation of the crisis team, who is the final decision maker where there’s disagreement, who approves the communication, who needs to see that?
Bryan Strawser: Those are all basic things that should be in your initial crisis management framework and plan. And then once you have that in place, and we’ve always talked about at this point, you begin to prepare for known risks and threats. What are the five, 10, 15, 20 things that you think you are at most risk at or that your data says you’re at most risk to have happen?