Preparing for Crises:
How to use this toolkit.
Effective crisis management is not only about responding to emergencies but also about proactive preparation and planning. This toolkit is designed to equip boards with the essential strategies and practices needed to anticipate, manage, and lead beyond crises.
Drawing from Crisis Leadership for Boards and Presidents by Terrence MacTaggart, this toolkit offers practical checklists, scenario-based exercises, and guidelines to help boards ensure they are well-prepared to protect their institutions and uphold their mission when crises occur.
This toolkit is part of a series of resources to help your board and leadership anticipate crises:
- Use this toolkit to equip your board to address future critical situations.
- Help your board understand the nuances of crisis leadership with Understanding Crises: A Crisis Leadership Toolkit.
- Guide your response as a crisis is unfolding using Initial Crisis Response: A Crisis Leadership Toolkit.
Prepare your board to identify and address crises.
Make crisis preparation an ongoing part of board development.
Related resources.
- Understanding Crises: A Crisis Leadership Toolkit | AGB, 2024 | Toolkit
- Initial Crisis Response: A Crisis Leadership Toolkit | AGB, 2024 | Toolkit
- Risk Management: An Accountability Guide for University and College Boards, Second Edition | Janice M. Abraham with Sarah Braughler, Liza Kabanova, Justin Kollinger, 2020 | Book
- Cyber Risk Oversight for Higher Education Boards | AGB in partnership with ISA and AIG, 2021 | Book
- Higher Education Risk Governance in an Increasingly Complex, Expansive, and Regulated Environment | AGB, 2023 | Podcast
- Legal Standpoint: IRS Weighs In on Name, Image, and Likeness Collectives | Margaret Jarrell-Cole, 2023 |Trusteeship magazine article
- Risk Management: A Process and A Strategy | Steve Golding, 2022 | Blog post
- Questions Boards Should Be Asking about Cybersecurity | Jennifer Sparrow, 2022 | Blog post
- Managing Reputational Risk | AGB, 2023 | FAQs
- Building Reputational Risk into Decision-Making | Simon Barker and Jen Rettig, 2023 | Trusteeship magazine article
- Cutting Through the Clutter of Compliance—How Boards Can Enhance Institutional Compliance with an Objective Review | AGB, 2021 | Webinar on demand
- Legal Standpoint: Guidelines for Legal and Risk Reporting to the Board of Trustees | Steve Dunham, 2022 | Trusteeship magazine article
- Using Scenarios for Effective Decision-Making | AGB, 2024 | Webinar on demand
- Crisis Communications | AGB, 2021 | FAQs
Crisis Leadership for Boards and Presidents
Anticipating, Managing, and Leading Beyond Pandemics, Disruptions, and Ethical Failures
Terrence MacTaggart, 2020 | Book