Crisis Management
Accredited Consulting Service for Ms. Roberts MS MAJ Accredited Executive Consultant (AEC)
Executive Summary Video
The Appleton Greene Accredited Consultant Service (ACS) for Crisis Management is provided by Ms. Roberts and provides clients with four cost-effective and time-effective professional consultant solutions, enabling clients to engage professional support over a sustainable period of time, while being able to manage consultancy costs within a clearly defined monthly budget. All service contracts are for a fixed period of 12 months and are renewable annually by mutual agreement. Services can be upgraded at any time, subject to individual client requirements and consulting service availability. If you would like to place an order for the Appleton Greene Crisis Management service, please click on either the Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum service boxes below in order to access the respective application forms. A detailed information guide for this service is provided below and you can access this guide by scrolling down and clicking on the tabs beneath the service order application forms.
Client Telephone Conference (CTC)
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Bronze Client Service
Monthly cost: USD $1,000.00
Time limit: 5 hours per month
Contract period: 12 months
SERVICE FEATURES
Bronze service includes:
01. Email support
02. Telephone support
03. Questions & answers
04. Professional advice
05. Communication management
Silver Client Service
Monthly cost: USD $2,000.00
Time limit: 10 hours per month
Contract period: 12 months
SERVICE FEATURES
Bronze service plus
01. Research analysis
02. Management analysis
03. Performance analysis
04. Business process analysis
05. Training analysis
Consultant profile
Ms Roberts is an approved Executive Consultant at Appleton Greene and she has experience in management, marketing and globalization. She has achieved a Master of Science Degree in Strategic Planning and a Master of Arts in Journalism. She has industry experience within the following sectors: Government; Healthcare; Non-Profit & Charities; Media & Marketing and Manufacturing. She has had commercial experience within the following countries: United States of America, or more specifically within the following cities: Jacksonville FL; Washington DC; Atlanta GA; Charlotte NC and San Antonio TX. Her personal achievements include: created strategic communications plans; managed crisis situations and communications; facilitated leadership development; facilitated team building and created and managed marketing plans. Her service skills incorporate: strategic communications; brand marketing; crisis management; leadership development and risk assessment.
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Executive summary
Crisis Management
Companies work very hard to build a positive brand image. All public facing information about your company contributes to its brand, and a company’s brand is its reputation. Reputation management is an essential part of doing business. Every company is vulnerable to potential crises that could harm people or damage property, seriously impact business operations, damage the company’s reputation, impact the company’s revenue stream, or threaten the company’s very existence. Companies often get so focused on business performance and day-to-day operations that they forget to plan for possible contingencies and second and third-order effects. This can lead to disaster. Every company must identify and understand the unique risks associated with its business and plan mitigation strategies into daily business processes. By doing this, a company can often prevent a crisis from happening or prepare to effectively deal with a crisis and prevent damage to its reputation. With more than 25 years of experience in dealing with national and international crises, Ms. Roberts has developed a process through which companies can identify and plan for potential crises in order to protect the organization’s image and reputation. By utilizing this Crisis Management process, companies can identify potential crisis points and develop a plan for their leaders and employees to properly mitigate or manage those risks in ways that protect the company.
Service Methodology
In all consulting engagements our efforts are tailored to the client who is hiring us. it has to be, as there is no cookie cutter approach to crisis management. Everything is based on the client’s industry, business operations, business processes, operating procedures, leadership and management configuration, and communication processes. In everything we do, the client’s strategic objectives act as our beacon in moving forward. Early steps involve an assessment of business operations, standard operating procedures, policies, and company communications. If the company has dealt with an incident or crisis in the past, we will complete an assessment on the handling of that situation to gain an understanding of prior processes and impact. We will interview leaders and managers across the organization to understand and identify the specific areas of risk the client faces. Each area of risk will be assessed and graded on a sliding scale based on how likely it is to happen and the threat it poses to the organization. We then work with appropriate personnel to develop potential mitigation strategies. We work with clients to build a Crisis Action Team that acts as a nucleus for any possible incident or crisis scenario, as well as identify additional personnel for each area of risk identified in our assessments. Depending on the level of service requested, that will determine how much of the work we do versus how much we are guiding the client through the process and then reviewing the work they do. Higher levels of service lead to the creation of a full blown Crisis Action Plan with press release templates for each identified risk area and an outline of communication procedures. Our approach to consultation relies on engaging the organization in a thorough risk analysis, identifying mitigation measures for the risks we can, and developing a modular plan that can be adapted to any situation the client might face.
Service Options
Companies can elect whether they just require Appleton Greene for advice and support with the Bronze Client Service, for research and performance analysis with the Silver Client Service, for facilitating departmental workshops with the Gold Client Service, or for complete process planning, development, implementation, management and review, with the Platinum Client Service. Ultimately, there is a service to suit every situation and every budget and clients can elect to either upgrade or downgrade from one service to another as and when required, providing complete flexibility in order to ensure that the right level of support is available over a sustainable period of time, enabling the organization to compensate for any prescriptive or emergent changes relating to: Customer Service; E-business; Finance; Globalization; Human Resources; Information Technology; Legal; Management; Marketing; or Production.
Service Mission
Ms. Roberts is a highly experienced senior executive who has successfully conducted crisis management operations and crisis communications for the United States Army, US Government and various non-profit organizations. Her experience in working with diverse groups of people on national and international crises provides her with a unique perspective in understanding how to do risk assessment, risk mitigation, and risk planning. Her skills as a leader and communicator are well known in the US military and US Government after working on high profile events such as The Presidential Inauguration, White House Diplomatic Visits, international investigations, and high-profile trials. Her skills can best be utilized through small group or individual engagements, seminar discussions, leader/manager workshops and cross-business collaboration techniques. By helping leaders and managers identify potential risk and plan and mitigate appropriately throughout the organization, Ms. Roberts will help clients proactively plan for the protection of their brand and reputation.
Service objectives
The following list represents the Key Service Objectives (KSO) for the Appleton Greene Crisis Management service.
- Strategic Planning
Anyone can start a business, but not everyone can stay in business. It takes a clear vision and road map to know where the company wants to go. Strategic planning involves more than just developing objectives. A company has to evaluate the strategic landscape to develop realistic goals and then map out the objectives, strategies and tactics to reach those goals. Strategic planning is a continuous, evolving process that is essential to a business’ long-term growth and viability. As the business landscape changes over time, the strategic plan must also change. Organizations must ensure that all actions, words and images are aligned toward achieving the stated goals. - Reputation Management
All public facing information about a company contributes to its brand, and the brand is essentially a company’s reputation. Do you know what is on the Internet about your brand? Do you know what people are saying about your brand? Are you prepared in the event of a crisis? Reputation management is an essential part of doing business that requires a company to be proactive. From small things like replying to a customer complaint to large crises like an environmental spill, and everything in between, there are plenty of operational points at which a company’s reputation can be impacted either positively or negatively. Internal communication and leadership create an environment that ensures all employees understand what the brand is, what it means, and how it represents itself externally. A solid corporate culture empowers employees and ensures they are invested in nurturing and protecting the brand at every level within the company. - Business Resilience
An organization is resilient when it can quickly adapt to situations while maintaining operations and safeguarding employees, physical assets and overall brand reputation. Resiliency is more than just recovering from a crisis because it takes measures to mitigate potential issues and develop strategies to ensure continuing operations, information dissemination, protection of assets, and adjustment of procedures as necessary in the face of adversity. Resiliency takes a commitment to evaluating risk and proactively addressing it. It also takes a commitment to thoroughly investigating failures and adjusting policies and procedures as necessary to prevent future issues. Most importantly, it requires a commitment to leadership and transparency in times of adversity when the first instinct is to hunker down and hide. All organizations experience adversity at some point, so it is critical for be prepared for both the good times and the difficult times. Resiliency is tightly aligned with business strategy and requires a holistic approach to risk management by thinking about the potential worst case scenarios and preparing for them in advance. - Strategic Communication
Many businesses address communications individually – internal, external, website, marketing, social media, advertising and public relations. In today’s communications environment, internal communications can quickly become external, and vice versa at a rapid speed. Trying to build silos between these areas will create disconnected messaging that is confusing both internally and externally. Integrated communications planning ensures all company actions, words and images align for a consistent voice that resonates with all of your audiences and builds your brand. This will avoid what we call the say-do gap, an inconsistency between what an organization says and what it does. - Process Improvement
Clearly examining potential worst case scenarios and second and third-order effects of actions equips an organization with valuable foresight rather than hindsight. Proactive organizations drive change and messaging rather than simply react to events happening around them. Seeking out potential areas of adversity allows a company to possible avoid adversity all together or at least minimize the impact it can have. Most importantly, the process of proactively examining operations empowers employees to speak up about dangers they see at their level that may not be visible to anyone else. This allows companies to refine and improve processes before something happens rather than after.
Testimonials
Multi-National Corps-Iraq
”Ms. Roberts created a multi-level plan that allowed the organization to seamlessly and expertly navigate four concurrent Law of Armed Conflict investigations, reporting the facts, investigation status, findings, and actions taken to the public, national and international media, the Department of Defense, U.S. Government and Congressional leaders, Iraqi government officials, and Iraqi family members of the victims.”
United States Army
”Ms. Roberts was instrumental in developing a plan for examining law enforcement operations; substance abuse testing, reporting and treatment; medical operations and treatment; mental health counseling and treatment; and unit policies and procedures to help the Army develop action plans for identifying, treating and monitoring soldiers with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and creating new suicide prevention policies and procedures.”
Wounded Warrior Project
”Ms. Roberts built a team from across the organization and guided them in identifying operational risks at all levels, developing mitigation strategies, and writing a Crisis Action Plan to deal with potential adverse scenarios. Her work was instrumental in helping the organization weather a recent scandal related to its fundraising and spending practices.”
Lutron Electronics
”Ms. Roberts was instrumental in helping us develop a marketing program for our first time marketing directly to consumers to launch a new product. She helped define the audience personas, develop key brand messaging, create a social media content calendar, and develop consumer surveys. Additionally, she created a drip communications campaign for newly registered users of the product that included a welcome letter, survey, monthly newsletter, and special announcements. Her efforts have resulted in a 130% increase in sales and quality engagement with our customers.”
U.S. Pacific Command
” Ms. Roberts was the driving force that created our Strategic Communication Office from scratch, developing the processes and procedures and educating the command. Her efforts ensured key communications to allies in the Pacific had all words and images aligned with the desired messaging. She played an integral role in securing Chinese acceptance of aid for the first time in this command’s history. Her work enabled the command to project a powerful, yet helpful presence within the Pacific Rim Theater to assist and train our allies in keeping the area secure from regional threats.”
More detailed achievements, references and testimonials are confidentially available to clients upon request.
Industries
This service is primarily available to the following industry sectors:
Manufacturing
Manufacturing touches every sector of the economy. Companies are seeking to keep up with an ever-changing environment of economic pressure and government regulation while trying to grow despite challenges in the world economy. Companies are looking for any advantage possible to be successful, and nimble strategic planning processes can keep manufacturing companies ahead of the pack. Every facet of the manufacturing process is fraught with potential pitfalls such as employee accidents, plant disasters, environmental issues, manufacturing defects, and product recalls. Planning against potential scenarios keeps companies prepared in case their worst case scenario ever happens and allows for a quicker, more thoughtful response that minimizes damage.
Healthcare
The healthcare industry is a complicated, ever-changing environment, as health professionals try to balance efficiency and economy with patient care. Reducing cost and increasing efficiency are an industry and government priority and challenge. New technologies, new drugs, and new processes are constantly being developed which can make the balancing act between efficiency and care difficult. And despite all of the technological development, there is a human component to health care that will never be erased, and humans are not and will not ever be error free. The entire healthcare industry has a multitude of potential crisis points relating to data collection and protection, natural and manmade disaster impacts on facilities, mergers and acquisitions, drug dosing, patient decisions, and employee behavior. Strategic planning against potential crises provides healthcare companies with a view toward flexibility and a critical advantage in dealing with adversity.
Government
Modern government agencies conduct the business of foreign diplomacy, military defense, maintaining domestic order; administering justice, protecting civil liberties; providing a stable monetary system; the providing public goods and services; promoting economic growth and development; operating social insurance and welfare programs, and protecting the environment. Ever changing threats, technology, rules and regulations provide for a difficult landscape to navigate in this more dangerous world in which we live. Within every sector of the government, there are a multitude of potential points of crisis that can result in the questioning of intent, oversight and management. Strategic planning and transparency are essential elements of all government business.
Non-Profit & Charities
Non-profits and charities were once considered untouchable, unquestionable entities. That is no longer the case. Examples of l