There is no universally approved or formal title for professionals who perform immediate crisis support. Often used titles include “PR Pros” or “PR guy or gal,” or generally speaking, “Crisis people” (e.g., “Wells Fargo‘s PR people were spinning this crisis into a positive for the bank.”). The label “spin doctors” is one that makes us negatively cringe.…
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We think about reputation a lot. Not our own, per se, but rather business and nonprofit reputations. How are reputations formed? How long does it take to build a strong reputation? Who (employees, customers, community, media, social influencers) ultimately decides what is the organization’s reputation? When a crisis happens, how does it affect a reputation? ReputationUs…
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Published: Credit Union Times Authored By: Casey Boggs, president of ReputationUs One of the best outcomes of thinking about a crisis before it happens is the chance to consider your credit union’s strategy in advance. But honesty, if you are a credit union in Texas, the situation is beyond the point of preparing for a…
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Congratulations to all 34 of the nation’s largest banks for passing their annual “stress test” this summer. It was the first time in seven years that all of them passed. Each year the Federal Reserve conducts a financial health checkup on banks, called a stress test, to determine how solid they are. After the economic…
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