At PM we firmly believe in gaming simulation as an alternative way of learning about risk, crisis and change. To provide organisations with a fun, accessible and effective way of preparing for crisis, we have developed a brand new card game: Calamity Cards.
It is with great pleasure that we announce an exclusive partnership with Merlin, one of the leading suppliers for crisis management software. At PM we are convinced software helps crisis teams by supporting the crisis organisation, information flow and decision making process. Merlin’s CrisisSuite is the first tool we came across that does exactly that. As all PM advisors are certified to implement CrisisSuite, we will be sharing more about the tool and its features in 2020. For now, we toast the newfound partnership with our friends from Merlin.
Zorgnet-Icuro recently announced its course program for the healthcare sector on integrated crisis management. A new chapter in the long-term collaboration between Zorgnet-Icuro and PM • Risk Crisis Change, it is our objective to increase the crisis preparedness of healthcare organisations in a more structured way.
After hundreds of crisis exercises and real activations for acute or smouldering crisis situations, Robbert wrote an article for Be Prepared explaining his favourite whiteboard layout and his reasoning behind it. With this article, we hope to accelerate the evolution towards a common recognised and used whiteboard structure for crisis communication teams. You can read the English translation below or download the original Dutch article at the end of the article.
Mijn zomermaand juli opzeggen voor een vrijwillige stage bij PM • Risk Crisis Change? Daar heb ik geen seconde spijt van gehad. Maar jammer genoeg komt aan alle goede dingen een einde. Dankzij de uitstekende begeleiding van het team kan ik terugblikken op een positieve stage-ervaring waarbij ik mijn kennis over crisisbeheer in de praktijk kon omzetten. Een kort verslag.
Als pas afgestudeerde master in de meertalige communicatie (KU Leuven) heb ik al heel wat relevante werkervaring opgedaan in interne en externe communicatie, lean manufacturing en project- en eventsector. Praktijkervaring met crisisbeheersing en -communicatie ontbrak nog. Dankzij de lezing van Robbert Meulemeester aan de universiteit kreeg ik meteen goesting om bij PM aan te kloppen voor een stage. Niet enkel gaf hij mij die opportuniteit, maar kreeg ik ook tips voor mijn meesterscriptie over crisiscommunicatie.
Every once in a while we see a movie, television series or concert that we can’t seem to shake off. I had such an experience recently when I watched Ari Aster’s second feature film Midsommar. As I’m quite a big fan of horror and therefore love what filmmakers like Ari Aster and Jordan Peele are doing for the genre, I was highly anticipating this movie. Not only did it exceed my expecations, its depiction of empathy is remarkable. Bear with me as I make my way through the main plot (spoiler free!) before diving into empathy.
La gestion de crise ne devient un sujet de préoccupation qu’à partir du moment où on en traverse une. Il n’est pas rare de sous-estimer la probabilité d’enclenchement d’une crise. Parfois on se dit même que la production d’une crise est peu probable voire impossible et pourtant, tôt ou tard, elle surviendra. Que faire face à une crise ce moment-là? Comment s’organiser? Comment prendre les meilleures décisions lorsque qu’une crise survient?
We continue making international roster moves! To continue providing our range of services to a growing amount of clients, we recently welcomed Julien Draillard Losada and Dr. Mike Lauder to our team. Their knowledge and expertise will help us to keep delivering the high-value advices and impactful crisis preparedness projects our clients praise us for, in Belgium and abroad. In this blog, Mike and Julien briefly introduce themselves.
Early August 2018, Stijn Pieters gave an interview in the radio show De Wereld Vandaag on the Flemish public radio station Radio 1. Crisis communication about a famous event being talked about around the globe, and how to react when you suddenly find yourself in the head of the storm. Those were the topics.
In May 2018 we had the first large scale run of our brand new crisis game for teams. As part of an innovative teambuilding day, 60 team members from the ‘Webcomm’ units of the European Parliament joined Tim Van Achte, Mike Lauder and me (Robbert Meulemeester) in Brussels to save the world in an apocalyptic and chaotic scenario. Not only did we have lots of fun, as expected we also recognised many actual crisis management challenges about awareness, coordination, communication and team dynamics. In this blog post I’d like to share a few (already legendary) quotes of the day.