Crisis Communications + Issues Management

Wondering about Minnesota’s approach to helping businesses during COVID-19? Tunheim Founder/Principal Kathy Tunheim was recently joined by Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development Commissioner Steve Grove to discuss Minnesota’s approach to helping businesses. Need communications and digital help to get your organization through COVID-19? We’re here to help. Sign up for a free one-on-one…

As the CEO of a company whose most tangible asset is billable time, this current pandemic-induced disruption is creating a potent opportunity to re-evaluate our thinking about time. For a whole lot of people around us, who are paid only for the hours they work, life just took a very, very frightening turn. A month…

Watch our recorded virtual panel with news leaders that took place on Thursday, March 26, 2020. Guests for this conversation included: • CBS News Correspondent, Jamie Yuccas • WCCO This Morning Co-Anchor, Jason DeRusha • Twin Cities Business Magazine Editor In Chief, Allison Kaplan Learn how newsrooms have changed the way they are working, the…

My friend James Carville uttered the phrase ‘it’s the economy, stupid’ back in 1991 or ’92, a galvanizing and clarifying pronouncement for the ultimately successful effort of Governor Bill Clinton to ascend to the White House. As the tsunami of news, information and ‘guidance’ on the coronavirus swamps our screens, I’m being transported back to…

We all know the Chinese proverb: May we live in interesting times. OK – done. ‘Interesting’ may be a more positive descriptor of these current times than most would use, but let’s give ourselves time to reflect on the idea. Lord knows, most of us have some time right now (unless you are working in…

Thursday (3/19) morning at 8:00 a.m. CST, Tunheim is hosting a live webinar with leaders from our network offices in Hong Kong and Milan. Both offices have been in lockdown mode since government leaders took drastic steps to halt the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Allen Montrasio from Imageware in Milan leads the technology public…

Enough with warnings and dire predictions. It’s time to look beyond this coronavirus moment and remember the big picture. Remember The Great Recession? We learned a lot from that difficult and scary period. Today we want to share some key learnings designed to help inform your business and marketing planning.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]First, let’s acknowledge that big U.S.…

The cascading series of events triggered by the COVID-19 coronavirus has led to what we at Tunheim call a “bunker mentality” within organizations. Executives are being bombarded so widely, repeatedly and in some cases, excessively, that their heads are on a swivel. The urgent communication coming from every angle is intense and poorly executed. In…

There is a growing sense among some reporters and editors that a game of one-upsmanship is occurring among companies and organizations regarding the tidal wave of announcements regarding COVID-19. To reporters and editors, it feels like every company is rushing to be included in reports about remote offices whether its news or not (spoiler alert:…