Location
Online
Dates
Can be taken anytime
Course Type
Professional Training Course
Accreditation
Yes (Details)
Language
English
Price
$4,500

Course Overview

There are various risks and crisis circumstances which can put your business under unexpected pressure. Forces such as economic downturns or natural disasters can have shock effects on global business. Therefore assessing and managing these pressures have become necessary lessons.

Objectives:

At the end of this program participants will be able to:

  • Know what risks and crisis situations may encompass
  • Become skilled at contingency planning so unexpected situations have minimal impact
  • Decide whether their business needs a dedicated team to handle emergency situations
  • Create an effective set of standards to respond to emergency situations
  • Keep a business running with stability regardless of external impacts

Who should take this course

This course is designed for owners, managers and supervisors.

Accreditation

CPD

Course content

Day 1 - What should be in place before the event?:

  • Understanding Crisis Management
  • How to manage a crisis?
  • Virtually every crisis contains the seeds of success as well as the roots of failure
  • The Rationale of the Crisis Manager

Consider the range of risks:

  • Natural/Environmental, Hazards; Technological - loss of utilities/product/process/plant Human Error, Sabotage and Terrorism Crisis Managers
  • Roles and Responsibilities - manage the issue before it becomes a Crisis
  • Who else inside and outside the organisation should be involved?
  • Evaluating your risks and vulnerabilities
  • Consider the worse-case scenarios
  • Who decides who sits in the 'hot-seat'?
  • Case Studies why some companies fail and others survive?

Day 2 - Pre-planning who and what else should be considered?:

  • Who owns the mitigation process?
  • Self-evaluating questionnaires
  • Developing and Implementing Emergency Plans
  • Twelve point check list covering the whole planning process
  • Mutual Aid arrangements
  • Company-wide strategic contingency plans
  • Service or departmental plans
  • Building evacuation plans
  • Crisis Management and Communications.
  • Emergency Centre/s
  • Developing and implementing a Business Continuity Management (BCM) strategy
  • Business Impact Analysis. Case Study and Workshop

Day 3 - Dealing with a crisis - the 'Communications' perspective:

  • Command and Control Issues
  • Operational (at the scene)
  • Tactical (at the forward control point/incident command)
  • Strategic (boardroom level/emergency operations centre)
  • On Scene Crisis Management essential elements for success
  • Reputation Management - Managing the Media. 'How to' sessions include
  • Organising a Press Conference
  • Conducting Radio and Television Interviews

Case Study Exercise:

  • Crisis Communications Strategy.
  • Develop a crisis communications strategy and action plan based upon a given scenario

Day 4 - Incident Management & Aftermath:

  • Alerting and Warning. Case Studies.
  • What can go right and what can go wrong Major Incident Simulation
  • Role Playing Workshop
  • Syndicate selection
  • Reporting back
  • Potential Psychological & Welfare problems in Crisis Management
  • How to improve staff morale and confidence in the process
  • The psychological effects during and after an incident involving injuries - and worse
  • Looking after yourself and your staff
  • Questionnaire are your batteries in good condition?

Day 5 - Leadership Behaviour and Behavioural Safety:

  • Validating plans and procedures
  • Discuss the four types of exercise
  • How to get the most out of an exercise Post Incident evaluations
  • De-briefing skills - managing the de-briefs - hot and cold
  • Critique report writing executive summaries and recommendations
  • How to keep all 'stakeholders' informed
  • Prioritising the Recommendations
  • Examples of critique questionnaires
  • Closing the loop. How to continue the process

About Course Provider

London Training for Excellence offer a wide range of training courses in London for organisations and individuals who wish to advance their skills and knowledge in the business world. With a great training centre in London, London TFE have everything that is needed to understand the basic needs of a business. Each course focuses on the ‘real-life’ issues a business could face and how to tackle them with ease.

London TFE have a team of enthusiastic leaders and instructors who share a passion for education and want to deliver that same passion to every individual who wish to take a business to succession. Each training courses London encourages individual to aim high and reach their full potential.