Human Concerns in Disaster Recovery – Part 3
This three-part blog addresses some of the human concerns of recovery: Part 1 What: What are Human Concerns Part 2 So What: The Risks Part 3 Now What: The Applications Now What: Applications for Meaning [...]
How to Develop a Contingent HR Policy for Disasters
Late on the evening of May 4, 1988, the First Interstate Bancorp building in California caught fire. Luckily, the fire was put out quickly and only two of the employees working at the time were [...]
10 Workplace Action Steps for Dealing with the Aftermath of a Suicide
(Adapted from A Manager’s Guide to Suicide Postvention in the Workplace: 10 Action Steps for Dealing with the Aftermath of a Suicide) Death powerfully jars our concept of the way life is supposed to be. [...]
Human Concerns in Disaster Recovery – Part 2
This three-part blog addresses some of the human concerns of recovery: Part 1 What: What are Human Concerns Part 2 So What: The Risks Part 3 Now What: The Applications Part 2 [...]
Human Concerns in Disaster Recovery
This is the first of a three-part series on human concerns in disaster recovery: Part 1 What: What are Human Concerns Part 2 So What: The Risks Part 3 Now What: The Applications What is [...]
Leadership in Times of Crisis: Critical Incident Response After Tragedy
It can happen here. When tragedy strikes the workplace -- a fatal accident, violence, suicide, a robbery, or natural disaster -- all employees immediately look to its leadership for direction. How those leaders respond when [...]
The Human Side of Response and Recovery
Organizations throughout the world have developed Business Continuity Plans that allow for quick response to whatever incident or disaster has occurred with little or no warning. Forest fires have occurred not just in the U.S., [...]
Managing the Human Side of a Disaster
A veteran carpenter would tell you that a hammer and a nail never change, but what you build over the decades will be different as creative designs change. Disasters are disasters, emergencies are emergencies, and [...]
Hunting the Black Swans in Your Continuity Program: Quarry #1 ― Employee Availability
This is the first in an ongoing series regarding hunting and mastery of the black swans in your continuity program. Read the Continuity egUidE (1st Wednesday of each month) for more black swans. Those of [...]
The Greatest Threat of Our Lifetime…Or Not?
Health experts say it is not a matter of if, but when, the next pandemic will impact the globe. In the face of a pandemic, airports, airlines, businesses and many public locations may face the [...]
Stop Worrying About Resilience: Look at Your Culture and Compacts
In the last decade or so, as a consequence of a variety of unfortunate events, an amalgam of knowledge has been ascertained about crisis management. All organizations should be as vigilant about the viability and [...]
Succession Planning and the Aging Workforce
In 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon, marking the culmination of a $24 billion NASA space program. Ten years later, NASA sheepishly admitted they could not return to [...]