Run. Hide. Fight. These words may not seem like much of a battle plan when it comes to dealing with the threat of an active shooter incident in your business. However, they define the fundamentals of responding to an active shooter, and if your employees and managers do not understand them, fatalities during an incident …
6 times business continuity and disaster recovery plans mattered
When you are faced with a disaster that impacts your business, it is already too late to worry about whether your disaster recovery plan is sufficient. Weather, extended power outages and security breaches in your computer systems can be devastating. Here are some companies that had a business continuity plan in place and how they overcame their …
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6 notable workplace violence incidents so far in 2017
Workplace violence takes many different shapes and forms, ranging from theft or the threat of violence to full-blown shootings and murder. Despite the amount of time spent studying these incidents, workplace violence remains extremely difficult to predict, even for experts. The best way to protect yourself, your workers, and your company is by simply learning …
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How mismanaging a workplace violence threat can have a disastrous impact on your company
It wasn’t long ago when the utterances of an angry employee were cast aside as temporary fits of verbal rage. An employee mumbling about how he’d like to kill his boss or harm people of a certain ethnic descent would have been shrugged off by most co-workers a couple of decades ago. Times have certainly …
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast: Episode #5 – Leading during an Active Shooter Incident
In this episode, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser, along with Senior Consultant Jenn Otremba and consultant Lindsay Bradford, discuss leading through an active shooter incident. Together, Bryan, Jenn, and Lindsay led through a major active shooter incident at a Fortune 30 corporation that turned out to be a false alarm after nearly four hours of …
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast: Episode #4 – The Crisis Team
In this episode, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser, along with Senior Consultant Jen Otremba, discuss the makeup of a corporate crisis management team and how important selecting the right talent and skills can be to the overall success of your program. Topics covered include forming a corporate crisis management team, emotional intelligence, procuring the right …
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast: Episode #3 – Major Events
Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser, along with Senior Consultant Jen Otremba, talk about planning for major events for private sector companies, such as internal events (board meetings, company meetings) and external events (Super Bowl, NCAA Final Four, political conventions). Topics covered include coordination with public sector agencies, obtaining access to intelligence information that may …
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10 Ways An Effective Crisis Manager Survives a Crisis
An organization crisis could be defined as something that involves one or more of the following events: creates a negative impact on the financial condition of the organization; threatens to disrupt or even eliminate product lines; poses as a health risk to employees, consumers or the environment and compromises or obliterates the organization’s reputation. Another …
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