Advanced Business Resilience

Categories Operational Resilience

About The Training

Introduction

Organizations today are presented with an ever-growing number of challenges, compounded by the speed of technological change and evolution, all of which act together to increase business risk. Evidence indicates that Resilient organisations are successfully proactive; they can foresee relevant scenarios that may have damaging effects on business operations. Therefore, if you have, or could have, a key role to play in the resilience of your organisation, then this course is for you.

Business Resilience as a corporate goal is the ability to anticipate, avoid, protect, withstand, mitigate, respond and recover from the effects of change or adversity. This Advanced Business Resilience training course explores these and other concepts of resilience to understand key mechanisms that organisations should develop to best cope with continuous change and to swiftly recover from hardship.

This Aldrich Center of Excellence training course will highlight:

Understanding the features of BSI 65000
Guidance on achieving enhanced Business Resilience
Identification and investigation of 13 indicators that assesses the resilience of an organisation
How pro-active individuals in resilient organisations improve the reliability of operations
How to recover and bounce back from trauma, quickly restoring business capabilities
How to demonstrate a clear focus on developing confidence and leadership capabilities

Objectives

By the end of this Advanced Business Resilience training course, participants will be able to:

Understand risk, security, safety, preparedness, resilience, response & reliability
Design policy and controls for you to manage Change as well as Risk
Apply concepts and innovative solutions to achieve business resilience
Determine how to monitor the performance of your Resilience system
Draw on an extensive knowledge base of organisational resilience

Training Methodology

This Advanced Business Resilience training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes leadership, management and organisational improvement techniques utilising exercises, syndicate role playing, group discussions, crisis communication skills and team problem solving challenges. A comprehensive training course manual, checklists, with relevant case studies, videos and realistic exercises will cover all the aspects of the latest standards.

Organizational Impact

In addition to the ability to recover quickly from multiple challenges and disruptions, the key to true Business Resilience is to create a culture of continuous improvement. Learning from past mistakes is of the essence in enabling organizations to emerge from a crisis more effective and more resilient than before.

Develop a prevention preparedness and a dynamic response / continuity / recovery policy
Establish objectives, procedures and processes to achieve policy commitments
Assure competency, awareness and training
Take action as necessary to improve performance and demonstrate success
Establish and apply a process for continual improvement

Who Should Attend?

The advanced nature of this event will prove beneficial to those in management and team leadership with responsibility for either planning for or responding to change and crises across the complete management spectrum. This Advanced Business Resilience training course is suitable therefore to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

Designated Incident, Emergency and Crisis Response Managers
Fire, Safety and Security Professionals
Risk, Marketing and Insurance Managers
Operation, Asset, HR and Facility Managers
Ministry or Government Regulators

Gain an understanding of the rationale and principles underpinning the five principles of business resilience
Appreciate the value and business benefits from taking an organisational resilience approach
Understand how to be networked gaining appropriate leadership skills within a resilient culture
Hear first-hand experiences in building resilience and how to survive adversity
Analyse and discuss a selection of key research papers and articles on organisational resilience

Course Outline

Day One: Resilience is a Concept rather than a Discipline

BSI 65000 5 Levels of Maturity & 13 Principles of Resilience
Business and Community Resilience Case Studies
Organisational and Environmental Risk, Threats & Impact Perspectives
Understanding the Impact of Change or Disaster on the Organisation
Strategic Crisis and Emergency Management in a Resilience Framework
Strategic Risk and Risk Behaviour