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Dear
Reader
Welcome to this
week's edition of the Communiqué - can you believe its already
September? Time is flying by, and the news appears more filled with
doom and gloom than ever. We hope that our newsletter will provide
a little bit of light relief for you. To help you out further, we
have added another new feature this week: Whingers' Corner. This
is where you can tell us what really gets under your skin - we will
publish all answers, and the best answer (in our completely subjective
opinion) will win a free telephone counselling session with one
of our therapists!
Thanks also
to those who submitted answers to our "Solve your own Crisis"
feature in the last edition - a selection of answers is given
here.
Look out for another case in the next issue.
In this issue:
Please keep
sending your feedback, both good and bad as we are keen to make
this communiqué as relevant as we can to our readers. You
can email me at andy.jarosz@docleaf.com
Thanks as always,
Andy Jarosz, Editor.
First
Responder Training
As a result
of feedback we have received during recent weeks, we are organising
a series of workshops in the autumn aimed at those staff who are
most likely to be first on the scene in the event of an incident.
The 3 hour training workshop will include a simulation exercise
and sharing of best practice in immediate response to incidents.
The programme
is aimed at group leaders, overseas managers, field based staff
- anyone who is most likely to be "on the scene" when
an incident occurs.
You can gain from the confidence of knowing that your staff can
respond in a calm and organised way should they be faced with an
unexpected crisis. The cost of the workshop is only £149 per
delegate (ex VAT). Each delegate will receive a certifcate to show
they have completed the docleaf First Responder's Training Programme.
If you would like to book places at these sessions, or would like
further information, please contact Larry McGonnell (larry.mcgonnell@docleaf.com
or 01923 681224).
Whingers'
Corner
Here by
popular demand - despite our nerves as to the types of answers
we will get! Is your boss getting you down? Are you fed up
with your commute? Fed up of rude clients? Or maybe the weather
is just not funny anymore. Whatever your gripe, share it with
the world. You can write it down with the comfort of anonymity,
and we will post all the answers in the next edition. The
gripe that tugs most at the heart-strings of our psycho-therapy
team here at docleaf will win a free stress counselling session!
What makes
you mad? Click
here to vent your frustrations!
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Flu
Pandemic - Are you ready?
The Institute
for Crisis Management is warning its members to be prepared
for an influenza pandemic.
In a special memorandum, Larry Smith, ICM’s President
says that there are four key areas that must be considered
1. Cash flow
2. Personnel Policies and issues
3. Legal Issues, i.e. contracts
4. How you are going to communicate with key audiences before,
during and after the pandemic.
read the full article here:
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Johnson
& Johnson vs Red Cross - Trial by Blog
When J&J entered
into a legal spat with the American Red Cross, their renowed
PR machine was aware of the potential damage this could do
to their reputation.
Rather than rely
on the mainstream media to report their side of the story
in the way they wanted, their VP of Public Affairs Ray Jordan
decided to fight the public war of words directly via a blogging
site. It enabled him to show a human face to the company's
dispute and challenge the moral high ground enjoyed by their
opponent.
Read on
here:
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Having
to say Sorry for saying Thank You
A Peruvian initiative to thank countries and international
agencies for aid it received in last week's devastating earthquake
has turned sour.
One thousand specially
produced bottles of Peru's famous alcoholic drink, Pisco,
have had to be withdrawn amid claims of bad taste.
The bottles were
labelled "Pisco 7.9", the magnitude of the earthquake
which killed about 500 people.
Read
more here:
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Briefs
I intended
to have an animal-free bulletin this time.. but this story
was too good to resist.
An agitated
pet cat left in a cupboard overnight turned out to be high
on cocaine and benzodiazepines left over from a wild weekend
dinner party. The eight-month-old Himalayan cat arrived at
a veterinary clinic with dilated pupils and a racing heart,
while the owner said it had trouble walking and was easily
startled, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
Vets Dominic
Barfield and Richard Malik, who run a clinic in the Sydney
suburb of Double Bay, were unable to take blood or use a thermometer
to take the cat's temperature as it was pacing incessantly
around its cage. While the owner was adamant the cat had not
been exposed to toxic plants, mouldy foods or drugs, when
contacted by telephone the owner's wife admitted the cat could
have licked "plates of cocaine" which had been served
at a dinner party two days earlier.
The "remorseful"
owner, who was not identified, was counselled and allowed
to take the pet home, but no legal action was taken.
(PA)
And finally..
A spelling mistake on the Internet led to a surprise trip
to remote southern France for three Norwegian tourists who
thought they were going to a Greek island, airport officials
said Wednesday.
(Advertisement)
The family group from Torp-Sandefjord thought
they had booked a flight to the island of Rhodes but instead
the journey from Oslo took them via London to Rodez, capital
of the mountainous Aveyron department.
According to airport authorities at Rodez
some 10 tourists make the same mistake every year. (AFP)
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