Tag: communications

• Natural catastrophes cost $160 billion in 2018: companies must be ready to mitigate these risks

  

  Hundreds of natural catastrophes killed more than 10,000 people in 2018 and caused damage and losses amounting to $160 billion, according to re-insurer Munich Re. The number and severity of these incidents should also prompt companies to thoroughly review their own business resilience, continuity and crisis management plans relative to natural disasters. The highest single loss…

  tontokowalski2017

  January 15, 2019

  crisis management

  climate change, communications, crisis communications, crisis management, cyclone, drought, emergency management, flood, government, hurricane, insurance, munich re, natcat, natural catastrophe, organizational resilience, reinsurance, resilience, risk management, risks, scenario planning, underwriting, USA, wildfire

• A 101 for press conferences

  

  I have no idea why, but today, I’m prompted to share some hints a tips on press conferences. Some key principles: Unless you have something earth-shattering to communicate to all of the media, at the same time – don’t do a press conference; for businesses a conference call is often more effective Use the first…

  tontokowalski2017

  September 27, 2018

  business ethics, government, press conference

  communications, government, media relations, nixon, press conference, public relations, social media, USA, watergate

• Carillion, the government and when someone else’s problem becomes yours

  

  The situation with Carillion seems to support the old adage: “If you owe the bank £100, it’s your problem, if you own the bank £10m it’s the bank’s problem.” In this case, last week’s theoretical, but realistic prospect of the melt-down of Carillion looked like the banks, bondholders and shareholders would have a problem, but…

  tontokowalski2017

  January 15, 2018

  crisis, government

  administration, bank, bonds, bust, carillion, communications, contract, crisis, defence, disaster, ERM, government, insolvency, JV, MoD, pension, public relations, risk, risk management, sausage, shareholder, shares, UK, UK government

• Toby Young, tweets and the challenge of hiring the right people

  

  By early Tuesday morning, the name ‘Toby Young’ had been trending on Twitter with nearly 50,000 tweets. The outraged Twitterati were celebrating that their pressure on the government had resulted in Young falling on his sword. And this, despite earlier support from the PM and senior government ministers, like the Johnson brothers. Just days earlier,…

  tontokowalski2017

  January 10, 2018

  crisis, Human Resources

  commonsenseplus, communications, crisis, disaster, government, hr, PR, social media, socialmedia, Toby Young, UK

• Government issues media advice for people caught up in disasters… Really?

  The UK government has issued advice for those members of the public caught up in a crisis or a disaster – don’t hold your breath – it’s mainly a marketing push for its radio, TV and newspaper complaints channels. It recommends people talk to a lawyer and that they should be aware of PR companies…

  tontokowalski2017

  January 5, 2018

  crisis, Uncategorized

  communications, crisis, crisis management, disaster, disaster management, government, MCIPR, PR, PRCA, public relations, UK, UK government