When a crisis hits, you will be under pressure—pressure to act, pressure to respond, pressure from those to whom you answer internally and potentially from external stakeholders as well. You may be out of your comfort zone, unsure of your reporting obligations, what to divulge, to whom and when and the order in which to do things. Your first instinct may be to try and react immediately in response to the agendas of others or, conversely, to clam up and adopt a legal position.
There is no officially accepted definition of crisis. Generally it will involve a time of intense difficulty or danger when a difficult or important decision must be made.
For guidance on specific types of crises, see subtopics:
Internal investigations
Dawn raids & external investigations
Data breaches—compliance
Business continuity plan
The first 12 hours of a crisis are pivotal. Things happen quickly; they can get out of control. Worse still, mistakes can be made.
If you get things right, you can seize control of the problem and set and drive...
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