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Crisis Planning Tools for COVID19 (and any other crisis)

Written by Emma Zubiago, Spring ’20 intern

We want to provide assistance with a few tools that can help your organization with crisis preparedness.

CommCore’s tool is the first step in preparedness. We provide a complimentary assessment on our website to see if you are crisis ready. After you answer a few questions, we will send you customized results on next steps.  Is Your Organization Crisis-Ready? Take CommCore’s Crisis Communications Plan Assessment and Find Out.

ServiceNow has a list of resources and apps for download. These apps, developed by a number of leading technology and consulting firms, cover areas such as emergency response management, emergency response operations, emergency research and more. This site also has a webinar, blog, news, and other resources.

Continuity Innovators has also created a pandemic planning tool free of charge. The software only needs an internet connection, which means it’s easily accessible. The plan includes support in determining a pandemic team, critical vendors, key stakeholders, key staff, action items, and more.

Gartner has a free webinar on their website with articles about different aspects of operating a business during this time. There’s also available research and videos focusing on continuing business continuity as much as possible.

These resources help you follow our “4Fs rule” for crisis communications. Keeping your communication factual, frequent, fast and flexible is important. These tools make your correspondence with your employees and coworkers as efficient as possible.

If you come across additional tools to help organizations through these challenging times, please send along to, adoman@localhost. 

 

Learn More About CommCore’s Crisis Communications counsel, trainings and services:

Contact our Crisis Communications Trainers & Consultants

We are available and can put you in touch with the right person to help with your specific communications challenge, or create a crisis communications workshop specifically tailored to your unique issue.

To schedule a PressureTest™ Demo or get answers quickly, call us at (202) 659-4177 or email info@CommCoreConsulting.com   to contact our crisis communications firm today.