Leadership in a Crisis Situation

In today's class we spoke about leadership in a crisis situations. A crisis is "a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger." They described 3 types of crisis's which are Business/Professional, Public Relations, and Personal. Each one of these can drastically effect an organization. They also spoke about the steps to managing crisis which are below.

Steps to Managing Crisis
1.Internal communications
2.Understand the potential impact
3.Position yourself
4.Create a means for monitoring
5.Learn from lessons

Ideally managers hope these type of crisis situations do not happen but they eventually will in some way or another for all organizations. I do believe the steps are set up in a good order and cover most of the details but I believe there is a crucial step that comes much before all of this. All organizations need to be proactive. All modern day organizations have to best guess what crisis could happen long before they might and have a set plan and steps to take in case it does happen. Obviously certain crisis's are unavoidable but its necessary to plan for events that are foreseeable. The more proactive an organization is, the easier it will be to solve and combat the issues at hand. By taking the time to create a proactive risk management plan organizations will be much better prepared.