Effective communication strategies are foundational hallmarks of any successful organization and preparing communications for a crisis should be a part of all crisis planning, implementation, management, training, and reputation recovery efforts.

Topics to be covered:
Crisis overview
Crisis cycle
Social and media relations policies/procedures
Pre-planning
Crisis communications protocols
This will include some templates that they can
take with them to create a skeleton plan
Crisis communications team
Crisis communications protocols
Audiences and communications channels
Message templates
Table-top exercise: Budget cuts and planning
communications with stakeholders.