The COVID-19 pandemic has stretched and challenged our leaders to manage so much more than just their operations. They have needed to manage emotions on a scale like never before. When employees are dealing with fear, anxiety and other emotions, how do you motivate? How do you possibly deliver even more bad news when they are already feeling so much? And what emotional toll does this take on our leaders?

In this webinar, Kimberly Kane sat down with three Milwaukee business leaders to capture their advice on how businesses can ensure they maintain strong cultures that help attract and retain great talent during and after the current COVID-19 crisis.

The coronavirus pandemic has created a new set of challenges for leaders who face growing responsibilities of supporting the safety of staff, protecting the reputation of the company, and shoring up the viability of operations.

COVID-19 is driving leaders to get creative and learn from industries and sectors outside of their own.

Bonnie Boettcher’s phone started ringing repeatedly around the middle of March. And it hasn’t stopped since.

Our team at Kane Communications Group is responding with decades of crisis communications experience.

COVID-19 is first and foremost a human and public health tragedy. As the likelihood of prolonged social-distancing measures increases in Wisconsin, across the U.S., and around the world, the virus could have a significant impact on business and on the economy.

With Wisconsin governor Tony Evers issuing a “Safer at Home” order, business leaders from all over the Milwaukee region continue to learn as they go when it comes to running their businesses.

Over the past two weeks, as we suddenly became a telecommuting nation, the internet was flooded with tips, guidance and secrets for making the adjustment to working from home.

Just a couple weeks ago, the year 2020 seemed to hold so much promise for the City of Milwaukee. That was then. This is now.

There is no rule book for what we are experiencing right now in Milwaukee and around the world. The coronavirus pandemic and the rapid spread of the disease caused by the virus, COVID-19 are unprecedented.

As a former journalist, one of the questions I’m asked most often is, “Do you miss reporting?” More specifically, I’m often asked if I miss writing about interesting people, places and organizations.

It is all too easy to get bogged down in the day-to-day tasks we must tackle on any given day to keep our organizations and our careers moving forward.

I mean just glance at your calendar for the week ahead. Deadlines. Appointments. Meetings. Networking.

We’re all blocking. And tackling. And grinding. At break-neck speeds.

As an entrepreneur and mom of four, I can hardly remember a day that I didn’t reflect on this statement. Hiring my first employee, signing our first office lease, teaching my boys how to drive. Throughout our lives, we encounter countless situations that make us feel unprepared, insecure, even scared. How do we confront these emotions? How do we work through them to discover what’s on the other side? How do we not retreat to what we’ve always known? It takes courage.

As a professional journalist, I spent more than three decades interviewing local business executives about the strategies they use to grow their companies. The interviews often ultimately focused on two basic questions: Why? And how?

Kane Communications Group, a full-service public relations and integrated marketing firm located in downtown Milwaukee, announces the launch of its brand journalism practice. Brand journalism takes stories beyond press releases to create a compelling journalism-style narrative with real news value. Kane’s team brings nearly 60 years of combined award-winning journalism experience across multiple disciplines including print, broadcast and digital to this new practice.

You have a great idea for a story. It meets a key business goal for your company or your client. It’s newsworthy. It’s visual. You can provide access and interviews. You have the perfect media target. So you pick up the phone to make your pitch to a reporter.

Kane Communications Group, a full-service, public relations and integrated marketing firm headquartered in downtown Milwaukee, announces multiple new hires and promotions to meet the needs of its growing client base.

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