Preparing For A Crisis
“When It Start to Rain, It’s too Late to Start Building the Ark.’ In fact,?had he waited for the storm clouds to gather before he put plans into action, by then it would have been too late. Prepare ahead for what’s to come, instead of panicking. Expert chess players see fifteen moves ahead. You should plan for at least five. Planning for a work related crisis ahead of time can save time, stress, mis-firings of good employees, misunderstandings, money, reputation, and your image. Have a plan in place before a crisis hits.
Here are seven steps to have a contingency plan long before a crisis happens in your workplace.
7 Steps To Keep In Mind in Preparing for a Crisis
1 Observe patterns
2 If the Internet Goes Out Have a Contingency Plan In Place
3 Planning ahead helps to stay calmer than the others in the office, when a crisis hits
4 Be realistic about the gravity of the problem. Don’t pad it with a soft cushion
5 Don’t overreact
6 Be prepared for people to call you negative or pessimistic, when they see you planning a head for a crisis
7 First 3-5 moves
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7 Steps To Keep In Mind in Preparing for a Crisis
1 Observe patterns
If it’s an employee, study the history of that employee. Are they likely to simply not show up for work and quit, putting you in crisis mode? Has this been a pattern? Patterns repeat in a person’s behavior. What do you need to do well in advance? Should you put a part time hiring post on your website?
2 If the Internet Goes Out Have a Contingency Plan In Place
For some businesses more than others, not having internet can be a major factor in how long the crisis lasts, whether they make a successful comeback after the crisis, or if they make a comeback at all. Is it a hotspot, a second internet service? Whatever it maybe, prepare ahead if internet goes out.
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3 Planning ahead helps to stay calmer than the others in the office, when a crisis hits
The ones who remain calm during a crisis are typically the ones who are realistic, and who have already played out the scenario in advance. The planners who already have five moves carved out are typically the calm in the storm.
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4 Be realistic about the gravity of the problem. Don’t pad it with a soft cushion
When a crisis hits, some underreact. They downplay the problem. This is their way of palming off the crisis to someone who sees the gravity of it. It’s no longer a problem. It has become a full blown crisis. On a scale of 1-10 if the problem is a level nine, don’t downgrade it to a level two. This can turn the crisis into a catastrophe.
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5 Don’t overreact
Planners can overreact, making a mountain out of molehills. On a scale of 1-10 if it’s a level three, there is no need to get the sirens going to a level 9.5.
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6 Be prepared for people to call you negative or pessimistic, when they see you planning a head for a crisis
We live in a “positive thinking” society that anyone planning ahead for a crisis can be labeled as being “negative.” While this can be true sometimes, in the working world it is better to get this label than get emotional and lose it when a crisis comes. And it will…
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7 First 3-5 moves
What are your first 3-5 moves, when something bad happens in. the workplace? When that employee quits? When you lose your job? When you have an injury and can no longer drive no type? When your relationship with your co-worker changes because of jealousy?
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