This interactive and participative training course will demonstrate that it is possible for an organisation to plan for those ‘Unexpected Challenges’. It covers the best practices and the proven way of successfully dealing with a crisis. This training course will constructively help delegates to develop those essential crisis management skills and reveal how to effectively use advanced techniques that will improve performance at that critical time.
Delegates will gain tangible results with up-to-date case studies and exercises to reinforce key learning points for immediate implementation at their workplaces. This training course will ensure you do not make the same mistakes of those other Crisis Managers. Your organisation must be prepared; without delay it needs to identify all potential vulnerabilities, map out the possible crisis scenarios and mitigate shortcomings.
This training course will feature:
- Best practice advise drawing on the expertise of crisis researchers, analysts and practitioners
- How to consider the main areas of activity: Preparation, Planning, Response and Recovery
- Getting the maximum from emergency responders and crisis management teams
- How to avoid mis-management and so make a bad situation worse
- Managing yourself and others, make judgements, redefine standards, establish options
Course Objectives?
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Acquire an in-depth knowledge of the key aspects of Strategic Crisis Management
- Develop strategies so ensuring you and your organisation responds efficiently and effectively
- Learn the fundamentals of organising and managing Crisis or Emergency Control Centres
- Acquire step-by-step guide on how to plan for more beneficially rewarding multi-agency exercises
Target Audience?
This powerful training course will be of benefit to those who find themselves responsible for leading on, or implementing Crisis Management, Emergency Response and Business Continuity/Recovery mechanisms in both the public and the private sector.
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Security & Fire Management
- Health, Safety and Environment personnel
- Emergency and Crisis Management Responders
- Professionals who have been allocated crisis management tasks yet have had insufficient time to devote to the subject
The Course Content
- Understanding Crisis Management and how to manage a Crisis
- Consider the complete range of risks facing businesses in the 21st century
- Crisis Managers – Roles & Responsibilities – manage the issue before it becomes a Crisis
- Understanding ‘denial-curve’ and ‘group-think’ syndromes
- Developing and Implementing Emergency Plans
- Crisis Management and Communications. Emergency Centre/s
- Developing and implementing a Business Continuity Management (BCM) strategy
- Business Impact Analysis. Case Study and Workshop
- Command and Control Issues. Operational, Tactical and Strategic
- On Scene Crisis Management, essential elements for success
- Reputation Management – Managing the Media.
- Organising a Press Conference & step by step guidance on how to conduct TV interviews
- BP Press Conferences – What went wrong?
- Exercise: Crisis Communications Strategy
- Major Incident Simulation – Role Playing Workshop
- Potential Psychological & Welfare problems in Crisis Management
- Post Incident evaluations, de-briefing skills – managing the de-briefs – hot and cold
- Critique report writing, executive summaries and recommendations
- Closing the loop. Implementing the recommendations, continuing the process
Training Methodologies
- Case Study
- Individual Exercises
- Role Play
- Group Exercises
- Group Presentation
- Examination