Directions: Answer the below questions in full sentences in a Microsoft Word or PDF file.
What you will do
Research President Trumps approach to the COVID-19 Crisis since January, 2020 to date
You may use Google and the library database to quickly identify reputable news stories, and articles, and press conferences.
No blogs allowed.
Minimum of 6 sources required
President Trumps social platforms (FB, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) and the Federal Governments official websites must be used and cited, but they MAY NOT be counted toward the required 6 sources.
1. Provide a background of the crisis with documentation from sources for a-e, minimum of 5 quotes/citations/support:
What actually happened?
What did Trump do initially? What is he doing now? Did he alter/change/contradict his approach? Why and how is this affecting the crisis (leader/public/stakeholders)?
How did Trump respond/communicate with public/customers/stakeholders/fans?
How did/does Trump use his social media platforms to support their PR crisis communication?
What did fans/customers/public/stakeholders say on social media say about leader and crisis at onset of crisis (use Jan 2020)? What are they saying now (as of April 22/2020)?
2. Work the crisis through the Ten Lessons On Effective Crisis Leadership from your crisis text.
To do this:
Identify each lesson clearly by bolding and underlining or highlighting them.
Discuss Trump in reference to each lesson
Use research to support each of the steps in the form of documented information from your sources. So, ten lessons, minimum of ten quotes/support.
Place the direct quotes, from your research, in quotation marks and indicate the name of the author/publication in parentheses.
3. Analyze Trumps Communication.
To do this:
Explain in detail, how you think Trump handled the crisis.
What do you believe Trump is doing well (did well) and discuss what he could be doing (or could have done) better/differently to handle the crisis?
Use your text to support your analysis. To do this, actually quote the text and put the direct quotes from Ch. 7 in quotation marks with page #, to support your opinion above. You should have at least, 4 quotes from text
Use your research to support your analysisinclude at least 5 quotes from your sources here. Place them in quotation marks and add authors name.
4. Tips:
1. Include a bibliography or works cited page (no specific formatting style required) with links for all sources used.
2. Do not repeat the same quotes from your sources to answer different questions.
3. Do not forget to reference Trumps tweets, or other social content and the Feds information.
4. This assignment is worth 225 points. I expect a thorough, detailed report based on research, not your opinion. This is NOT the time to share your love or hate for our President. You are simply studying his Crisis Leadership!