Hurray! You're on the other side. It's the end of the week. Well done, you!

No beating about the bush, we're just going to get right in there.

Virtual Reality. Now that it is all the rage – and it isn't just a trendy fad, it's literally changing our lives and how we experience the world – we take you through the concept of digitally transforming your business with web-based virtual reality. Seeing is believing, as they say...

On another note, do you know what to do in the event of a company blunder? The worst thing you can do (even if unintentionally) is to make a tone deaf comment to assuage a situation that has rippled your reputation poorly. How you handle yourselves in the face of negativity will mark your company until the end of time. This is why it is essential and incredibly important to have up to date intel, information, teams with experience and the ability to employ effective messaging – turning a crisis into a legacy of love and support – breeding an endowment of sustainability. Read more about how we intervene where crisis management is concerned, below. 

Shout out to one of our 'Diversions' on resiliency lessons from the Bare Performance Podcast – coupled with notes our on crisis management, you should have a heap of business-savvy take-aways.

And to cool things off, skip to Outlook for a super peaceful visual. Nothing like a gentle body of water, right?

May your weekend be as peaceful as Germany's Obersee lake.

Keep calm and carry on.

Team E.

With our exclusive access to digital tools and with our technical expertise, we can assist organizations to leverage on web-based VR systems. From educational experiences to conferences to even real estate simulations, we can remove remove geographical boundaries and barriers and open up your world in an interactive and immersive way to reach a wider market audience.

We can develop a high level of creativity to ensure your customers are part of an engaging experience which will yield business results and meet long-term goals. It doesn't stop there. We can implement VR for your meetings, training, customer service and more. There is no limit to the possibilities.

What Does Crisis Management Even Mean?

We’ve been hearing and doing quite a bit of crisis management over the course of 2020 and 2021. Very few companies were prepared to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in both agile and adaptable ways, even fewer were prepared to deal with a crisis of any kind. So what is crisis management and why are so few companies so ill prepared for one? By definition crisis management is:'The process by which an organization deals with a disruptive and unexpected event that threatens to harm the organization or its stakeholders.'

Today, many companies view public relations as just a broadcaster of good news and events to keep them in the public eye – but it should be much more multi-layered than that. Public relations should be firmly married to the crisis management plan to create a bubble of protection around the company with each public touch or announcement, to help mitigate damage in the event of a crisis.

Having worked with so many clients over the past year, struggling with the COVID crisis and all that it brought with it in the form of collateral damage, we realized that flexible thinking requires flexible and immediate response solutions.

And the world has changed, and so to must the tactics and teams that companies turn to in today’s ever shifting and unstable world. Time, crisis and news will march on but will your company? And how will it be remembered? It’s worth considering how much that means to you.

Read the full article in the Mind Lab...https://evoke-international.com/crisis-management-what-it-means/

SHAPING TOMORROW

We’re always on the look out for dynamic change makers, disruptors and new information to fuel our own dexterity and creativity. So, this section sees a few of our recent picks on how the world’s outlook is changing. We hope these little nuggets will help you land on that 'aha!' moment you were looking for!

OUR DIVERSIONS

We know everyone says it's not all work, it's about play, too – and as much as we don't want to sound like a broken record, there is truth in the truism. Like we said earlier, we are all about ingesting the complex and the trivial in equal measure. In fact, we love nothing more than thinking deeply about the more 'playful' things in life. Read ' em and ponder away.

TODAY'S QUOTE

Plot twist! Many assume that there are only two possibilities:success or failure. But they are actually one and the same track. The only difference is the road to success is much longer. In fact, the road to success is paved with failures.

THE OUTLOOK

If you want to put a visual next to the lyrics, 'what a wonderful world', see below.