Understanding Crises:
How to use this toolkit.
Navigating crises effectively is a fundamental skill for higher education leaders. This toolkit is designed to build your background knowledge on crisis leadership, providing you with the insights and strategies necessary to lead your institution through challenging times.
Drawing from Crisis Leadership for Boards and Presidents by Terrence MacTaggart, this toolkit will equip you with the foundational knowledge and practical tools needed to lead with confidence and competence, ensuring your institution can withstand and emerge stronger from any crisis.
This toolkit is part of a series of resources to help your board and leadership anticipate crises:
- Use this toolkit to help your board understand the nuances of crisis leadership.
- Equip your board to address critical situations with Preparing for Crises: A Crisis Leadership Toolkit.
- Guide your response as a crisis is unfolding using Initial Crisis Response: A Crisis Leadership Toolkit.
The components of a crisis.
Case study exercises for boards.
All of the colleges and universities in these cases are fictitious amalgams drawn from multiple institutions.
Related resources.
- Initial Crisis Response: A Crisis Leadership Toolkit | AGB, 2024 | Toolkit
- Preparing for Crises: A Crisis Leadership Toolkit | AGB, 2024 | Toolkit
- Leadership in Times of Crisis | David V. Rosowsky, Stephen M. Gavazzi, and E. Gordon Gee, 2022 | Trusteeship magazine article
- Risk Management: An Accountability Guide for University and College Boards, Second Edition | Janice M. Abraham with Sarah Braughler, Liza Kabanova, Justin Kollinger, 2020 | Book
- Transforming Crisis Leadership into Community Stewardship | AGB, 2020 | Webinar on demand
- Legal Standpoint: Existential Crisis | Lee Tyner, 2023 | Trusteeship magazine article
- Crisis Leadership | AGB, 2021 | FAQs
- 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