Reputation Capital: How to Navigate Crises and Protect your Greatest Asset
A longtime broadcast journalist, ABC News correspondent, and business communication strategist shows how you can craft an honest and authentic response to any scandal, rather than try to deny it, and ultimately bolster your brand.


In twenty years as a television reporter, T. J. Winick covered many scandals, including the British Petroleum oil spill, the Pennsylvania State University football scandal, the Catholic priest molestation scandal, and the Toyota recall of 20092010. The biggest mistake he's seen organizations make in their crisis communication is to try to make it go away by refusing to apologize, declining to comment, or going on the attack-anything to deflect attention.

Instead, Winick argues for communicating ethically, with transparency, honesty, authenticity, and empathy. Handled correctly, the way you address an egregious violation of your standards can increase your reputation capital. It can remind people of what those standards are and how strongly you believe in them.

Drawing on his intimate insider knowledge of how the media works, Winick addresses every aspect of how to respond to a scandal. He includes the Ten Crisis Commandments-universal dos and don'ts. And he gives practical advice on who you should talk to and when, who should do the talking, how to form a crisis communication team, what tone you should strike in your message, how to work with the media, and much more.
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Reputation Capital: How to Navigate Crises and Protect your Greatest Asset
A longtime broadcast journalist, ABC News correspondent, and business communication strategist shows how you can craft an honest and authentic response to any scandal, rather than try to deny it, and ultimately bolster your brand.


In twenty years as a television reporter, T. J. Winick covered many scandals, including the British Petroleum oil spill, the Pennsylvania State University football scandal, the Catholic priest molestation scandal, and the Toyota recall of 20092010. The biggest mistake he's seen organizations make in their crisis communication is to try to make it go away by refusing to apologize, declining to comment, or going on the attack-anything to deflect attention.

Instead, Winick argues for communicating ethically, with transparency, honesty, authenticity, and empathy. Handled correctly, the way you address an egregious violation of your standards can increase your reputation capital. It can remind people of what those standards are and how strongly you believe in them.

Drawing on his intimate insider knowledge of how the media works, Winick addresses every aspect of how to respond to a scandal. He includes the Ten Crisis Commandments-universal dos and don'ts. And he gives practical advice on who you should talk to and when, who should do the talking, how to form a crisis communication team, what tone you should strike in your message, how to work with the media, and much more.
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Reputation Capital: How to Navigate Crises and Protect your Greatest Asset

Reputation Capital: How to Navigate Crises and Protect your Greatest Asset

by T.J. Winick
Reputation Capital: How to Navigate Crises and Protect your Greatest Asset

Reputation Capital: How to Navigate Crises and Protect your Greatest Asset

by T.J. Winick

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Overview

A longtime broadcast journalist, ABC News correspondent, and business communication strategist shows how you can craft an honest and authentic response to any scandal, rather than try to deny it, and ultimately bolster your brand.


In twenty years as a television reporter, T. J. Winick covered many scandals, including the British Petroleum oil spill, the Pennsylvania State University football scandal, the Catholic priest molestation scandal, and the Toyota recall of 20092010. The biggest mistake he's seen organizations make in their crisis communication is to try to make it go away by refusing to apologize, declining to comment, or going on the attack-anything to deflect attention.

Instead, Winick argues for communicating ethically, with transparency, honesty, authenticity, and empathy. Handled correctly, the way you address an egregious violation of your standards can increase your reputation capital. It can remind people of what those standards are and how strongly you believe in them.

Drawing on his intimate insider knowledge of how the media works, Winick addresses every aspect of how to respond to a scandal. He includes the Ten Crisis Commandments-universal dos and don'ts. And he gives practical advice on who you should talk to and when, who should do the talking, how to form a crisis communication team, what tone you should strike in your message, how to work with the media, and much more.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781523001866
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication date: 09/20/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 232
File size: 580 KB

About the Author

T.J. Winick is Principal at Essex Strategies, a strategic and crisis communications practice which partners with large companies, small businesses, nonprofits, universities, colleges, and independent schools to define, protect, and defend their reputation. He also worked as a reporter in local news for ten years in such major markets as Pittsburgh and Boston. His insights on crisis communications have appeared in numerous outlets, including Forbes, PR Week, PRNews, and O'Dwyer's.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction: Confessions of a Former Reporter 1

1 What Is Your Reputation Capital? 7

2 The Best-Managed Crises (Are the Ones You've Never Heard Of) 20

3 The Ten (Crisis) Commandments 43

4 Reputation Road Map: Audiences and Channels 55

5 A Plan to Protect and Defend 68

6 Seven Qualities of Quality Communications 92

7 The CEO as Spokesperson 101

8 Media Matters: The Press as Your Ally 114

9 Social Media and the Rise of the Stakeholder 124

10 Reputation by Association 135

11 Communicating Cultural Competence 141

12 Lessons from a Year in Crisis 151

Reputation Capital Case Studies 161

A Failure to Accommodate and Communicate (United Airlines) 163

An Extra Hot Cup of Humility (Starbucks) 176

Epilogue 189

Notes 191

Acknowledgments 205

Index 207

About the Author 217

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