Co-ops Under Attack
Crisis Communications Master Class #5 for Rural Electric Cooperative with crisis communication expert Gerard Braud, sponsored by SituationHub.
Have your members formed a Facebook group to attack and criticize your rural electric cooperative?
It is one of the harder crisis communications scenarios to manage.
Should you engage? Should you ignore the group? If you engage with them will it only make matters worse?
Does your crisis communications plan have instructions for this or do you have to exercise a high degree of creativity to manage this sort of situation?
These are all questions that Mark Stubbs, CEO of Farmers Electric Cooperative faced several years ago. After an extremely cold winter that resulted in high bills, an organized group of members exploded with anger when their bills arrived. Mark will go into deep details and discuss the creative solution that helped turn things around… and how years later he is still doing his best to stay ahead of the Facebook anger and to manage the expectations of his members.
The Master Class is led by crisis communications expert Gerard Braud.
Your free registration has been paid for by the team at SituationHub.com
As a bonus, schedule a confidential discovery call to privately discuss the crisis communications challenges that you want to conquer in 2021 by using this link https://calendly.com/braud/15min
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Here is Master Class #5 for Rural Electric Cooperatives
Co-ops Under Attack
About your moderator
- Gerard Braud, CSP, Fellow IEC has helped organizations on five continents with their crisis communications strategies.
- Having grown up in the farm fields of rural Louisiana, Braud has a special passion for working with Rural Electric Cooperatives.
- Braud’s first career was as a television journalist, with reports seen on CNN, NBC, CBS, the BBC, and The Weather Channel.
- Since 1994 his passion has been helping companies preserve their revenue, reputation, and brand through effective planning for a crisis and execution during a crisis.