Tag: Crisis Communications

“Crisis Communications on the Cutting Room Floor” Part I: Setting the Trap

“Crisis Communications on the Cutting Room Floor” Part I: Setting the Trap

Your organization is in full crisis management mode. Armed with legal counsel and a communications strategy, it’s time for your CEO to speak to the media. During a taped TV news interview, she hits all the right notes – staying on message, bridging to key points and projecting a calm, but concerned, demeanor.  You and […]

“Crisis Communications on the Cutting Room Floor” Part II

In Part I of this series, “Setting the Trap,” we looked at a real example of a company that fell for the interview trap, not once, but twice! What fundamental error did the CEO make? She agreed to do taped interviews. By providing 20 or 30 minutes of dialogue for the producers to slice and dice according […]