Here are our '12 New Year Tips' that cover some of the common crisis management pitfalls we witnessed in 2022.

We normally steer clear of politics in our blogs but we’ll make an exception this time!

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Good leadership can be the difference between a successful response and a firm not surviving the crisis.

As we look into 2022 we’ve had two years of the pandemic and in general the profile of crisis management professionals during this period has been been enhanced.

It’s been another strange year.

It’s important that the participants enjoy the exercise and that they learn from it — the last thing you want is to destroy their confidence.

Stuart Beattie has been looking at how operational resilience is now front and centre in the minds of business continuity professionals, in particular across the financial services sector.

As Bob Dylan would say - ‘The Times They Are A Changin’.

It is unrealistic to expect a CMT to operated effectively without deputies for an extended period. Members need deputies to cover periods of absence and bring fresh ideas.

Best practice is to have two roles supporting each crisis management team during a crisis, an ‘Incident Recorder’ and a ‘Crisis Co-ordinator’.

Stuart Beattie thought it would be interesting to look back on 2019 and consider the trends we have witnessed in terms of the risk areas our clients exercised.