McGill PR Students Exhibit Strong – and Ethical – Crisis Communication Skills
The following guest post is written by Melissa Agnes who reflects on her experience with McGill PR students
I recently had the opportunity to teach a 3 hour course to Victoria Pickering’s Ethics in PR class at McGill University. Giving guest lectures is something I do regularly on different topics that derive from the subject of crisis management, but I have to say that this particular experience is one that will stay with me.
The class as a whole demonstrated a profound understanding of what it means to communicate ethically in a crisis.
The 30+ students in this #PREthics771 class were perceptive, engaging and hungry for knowledge. Through our discussion of today’s crisis realities, and our examination of real-world crises, including the current Ebola crisis and Malaysia Airlines’s crises of 2014, the class as a whole demonstrated a profound understanding of what it means to communicate ethically in a crisis.