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A friend of mine called the other day, panicked that change was underway at her office and that she was about to be laid off. “I really don’t know what I would do,” she said. “I’d be so, so screwed.”
I started talking her through a few possible action steps, which got me thinking about my time working in PR and events. One of our department’s to-dos was to create and maintain an “emergency plan:” Basically, if there was ever a crisis — a fire or earthquake (welcome to LA), a health scare, even a last-minute change in an event venue or speaker — we had everything in place to launch into action in an organized, streamlined way. We updated it quarterly, and while we always thought doing it was a pain, it was an absolute lifesaver when we needed it. Read more...
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