Challenges and Pain Points for Today’s Emergency Managers
Today’s emergency managers are tasked with navigating an ever-increasing array of threats, from natural disasters to technological hazards, while coordinating response efforts across multiple agencies and stakeholders. Here, we delve into some of the most pressing pain points that these professionals face in their mission to safeguard communities.
Emergency Management Practices: Insights from Recent Colorado Wildfires
Recent wildfires in Colorado brought to the forefront the critical importance of effective emergency management practices. Explore the role of strategic communications and technological tools in wildfire preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation.
Bridging the Gap Episode 6: Preparing Organizations for Natural Disasters
In this episode of the “Bridging the Gap” podcast, disaster preparedness experts discuss business continuity planning for natural disasters, emphasizing the importance of including all stakeholders, from employees to the CEO, as well as local and federal government.
Bridging the Gap Episode 5: Crises Create Crises: Applying the IDEA Model to Crisis Communication at Higher Education Institutions
In this podcast episode, SummitET Strategic Communications experts sit down with the creators of the IDEA Model for Effective Risk and Crisis Communication and discuss how communicators and decision-makers at higher education institutions can apply the the model when addressing sensitive and controversial issues on their campuses.
Bridging the Gap Episode 4: Strategic Communications for Higher Education: Sensitive and Controversial Issues
In this podcast episode, SummitET’s team of Strategic Communications experts discuss crisis communications fundamentals that higher education institutions can incorporate when addressing controversial and sensitive issues with their stakeholders.
Bridging the Gap Episode 3, Part 1: Improving Exercise Design and Evaluation; the XF Score
In this podcast episode, SummitET preparedness experts and former DHS Acting Secretary and FEMA Administrator discuss the XF Score™️, a rubric for analyzing the effectiveness of tabletop exercises and trainings for crises.
Active Shooter Incidents Over Time
“Active shooters” were not always considered cause for alarm in the United States. This post examines the trend of active shooter incidents over time and offers preparedness solutions to mitigate the threat.
Bridging the Gap Episode 2: Stolen Radiation Sources
SummitET Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) discuss the emerging threat of stolen radiation sources.