Crisis Management During The COVID-19 Pandemic

You might say we are well beyond crisis management planning some weeks after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). While the assessment of our pandemic preparedness as a society will be the subject of considerable future scrutiny, the likely duration of the crisis still allows individuals and organizations to implement some basic crisis management best practices. These best practices can be applied whether you are leading a small organization or a big one.

Preparedness and Scenario Planning

The COVID-19 crisis will likely last several months. While we may be comforted that it will have an epidemiological end, its impact on your organization may be different at different points of time. In this early stage many of us have been consumed with mobilizing our business to run in drastically altered operating conditions or on entirely new platforms. In most cases, the impact of COVID-19 will potentially severely impact revenues, distract