Pre-Planning, Far Superior To Crisis Planning

March 16, 2020,

Save money when you don’t need to. Build that nest egg.

Get into great shape before your health dictates you have to.

Eat healthy before your body revolts. Research it.

An ounce of prevention is always far better than a pound of cure.

That is where planning comes into play.

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Plan ahead of time when there is a hint of a future issue. Don’t wait until it happens.

Then it is well too late.

Having said that, it is often human nature to wait until a problem is right in their face before they react.

Then you have a crisis.

That is far different and less preferable than coming up with a plan, ahead of time.

Planning is the process of thinking about the activities required to achieve a desired goal. It is the first and foremost activity to achieve desired results.

It involves the creation and maintenance of a plan, such as psychological aspects that require conceptual skills. There are even a couple of tests to measure someone’s capability of planning well.

Here is a major point and something to put into perspective.

As such, planning is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior.

“Plans are nothing; planning is everything.”…Dwight D. Eisenhower

Planning is one of the executive functions of the brain, encompassing the neurological processes involved in the formulation, evaluation and selection of a sequence of thoughts and actions to achieve a desired goal.

A crisis plan is the physical manifestation of crisis management with respect to the creation of a real document – digital or otherwise – outlining a personal or organizational reaction to crisis.

Examples of a crisis plan could include a map of evacuation routes, an outline of a personal wellness recovery action, a list of emergency supplies, a CPR manual or a corporate disaster contingency plan.

Every crisis is different and individual plans vary by necessity.

What each crisis does have in common is that you no longer have the option to take your time and keep contemplating. You have to think and come up with a plan to take action immediately.

The key is to try and anticipate ahead of time what might turn into a crisis and actually take steps to try and prevent the manifestation of the problem.

We would like to turn our attention to the United States government for suggestions in a book found on Amazon regarding crisis planning.

Practical Information on Crisis Planning: A Guide for Schools and Communities, Paperback– October 4, 2013

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By U.S. Department of Education

“Families trust schools to keep their children safe during the day.

Thanks to the efforts of millions of teachers, principals, and staff across America, the majority of schools remain safe havens for our nation’s youth.

The unfortunate reality is, however, that school districts in this country may be touched either directly or indirectly by a crisis of some kind at any time.

Natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, fires, and tornadoes can strike a community with little or no warning. An influenza pandemic, or other infectious disease, can spread from person-to-person causing serious illness across the country, or around the globe, in a very short time.

School shootings, threatened or actual, are extremely rare but are horrific and chilling when they occur.

The harrowing events of September 11 and subsequent anthrax scares have ushered in a new age of terrorism.

Communities across the country are struggling to understand and avert acts of terror. Children and youth rely on and find great comfort in the adults who protect them. Teachers and staff must know how to help their students through a crisis and return them home safely. Knowing what to do when faced with a crisis can be the difference between calm and chaos, between courage and fear, between life and death.

There are thousands of fires in schools every year, yet there is minimal damage to life and property because staff and students are prepared.

This preparedness needs to be extended to all risks schools face. Schools and districts need to be ready to handle crises, large and small, to keep our children and staff out of harm’s way and ready to learn and teach.

Taking action now can save lives, prevent injury, and minimize property damage in the moments of a crisis.

The importance of reviewing and revising school and district plans cannot be underscored enough, and Practical Information on Crisis Planning: A Guide for Schools and Communities is designed to help you navigate this process.

The Guide is intended to give schools, districts, and communities the critical concepts and components of good crisis planning, stimulate thinking about the crisis preparedness process, and provide examples of promising practices.

This document does not provide a cookbook approach to crisis preparedness.

Each community has its own history, culture, and way of doing business. Schools and districts are at risk for different types of crises and have their own definitions of what constitutes a crisis. Crisis plans need to be customized to communities, districts, and schools to meet the unique needs of local residents and students.

Crisis plans also need to address state and local school safety laws. Experts recommend against cutting and pasting plans from other schools and districts. Other plans can serve as useful models, but what is effective for a large inner city school district where the population is concentrated may be ineffective for a rural community where schools and first responders are far apart.”

Some good points for certain.

“Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we’re playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it’s over. We’ve really paced ourselves.”… Venus Williams

The lesson here is for all of us to attempt to look into our own personal future and assess what might be problem check points.

It could be communication within our family, recognizing the accomplishments of co-workers, assessing our eating, exercise and sleeping habits and more.