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Crisis management in your company? Temporary marriage between the owner and the crisis manager.

The crisis manager's mission is to help the client through a crisis period that almost every company gets into sooner or later. He or she is an experienced manager who can do the job well, if certain rules work. Which are they and what to set right at the start of such collaboration?

A blanket restriction from the crisis may not help

Management in a crisis situation very often reach for blanket measures. For example, we will reduce our wages by 20%. We will cancel coffee, meal vouchers, all training and marketing activities are stopped, regardless of the potential of new orders. Are such measures really effective and can help company management get out of the crisis?

When Standard Employee Motivation Does Not Work

There is more and more work. It keeps increasing in volume. Your employees want more money no longer, are not interested in bonuses and would have nothing of overtime. They would not hear either an explanation or an order by the manager. Can such a situation be resolved? Is there still a possibility to incentivize the employees? Yes, it can and there is, but forget...

A story to make sense of the crisis

An appetite for easy earning may cause all of our resources and reserves to run out. What initially looks like a clear income may easily get lost, if we forget about what really generates value for life and society.

Prevent rumours, do internal communication

The company is going downhill, we may be left without work,“ employees are whispering to one another. Thus, a rumour is being born which spreads easily and fast among the workforce without being well founded. During the financial crisis, it only takes a single month with fewer orders, a couple of delayed payments, and mentally disturbing rumour starts spreading among the workers.

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Crisis

A crisis, a state of crisis is when there is a threat to security, the existence of the company, life and health, or the know-how of the company. It is a condition that we are not able to handle with normal work and company tools. Thus, if we continued to work according to approved processes and procedures, the situation would not be rectified in time and the loss would deepen further...

Crisis plan

The crisis plan is an overview of actions and procedures to help solve the current crisis, the crisis situation of the organization. It evaluates the effectiveness of measures and defines the basic parameters for the solution - what, who, when, how and also key indicators of the crisis. These may include costs, revenues for the crisis, concentrations of hazardous substances, stocks...

Crisis communication

Crisis communication - is communication focused on the prevention and solution of crisis situations so that no losses occur or they are eliminated in time. In addition to financial losses, the departure of quality employees, the loss of partners, etc., the loss of goodwill and negative communication (articles, blogs, ...) is also considered loss. The task of crisis communication...

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