The global COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical importance of organisational resilience and crisis management; but whilst it might be an immediate focus, COVID-19 is just one potential threat which organisations and businesses potentially face. A failure to plan, prepare for ad implement robust resilience cultures and frameworks can potentially be catastrophic.

The Resilience, Security. Crisis and Risk Management webinar course take an integrated approach to resilience, placing it within an organisational and business resilience ecosystem, of which key pillars are security, crisis, emergency, risk and business continuity management. The course focus is on building high performance strategic and operational resilience, risk, security, crisis and business continuity cultures and frameworks, with an emphasis upon pragmatic organisational and business frameworks, tools and techniques.

The Resilience, Security. Crisis and Risk Management webinar course is designed for ‘C’ suite and senior-level strategic and operational leaders and managers across all functions who are responsible for leading organisational and business resilience, security, crisis, risk and continuity agendas.

The course is suitable for both existing ‘C’ suite and senior-level personnel who wish to refresh or upskill; as well as for recently appointed positions; or potential personnel who have been identified as part of promotion and succession plans and wish to develop new skills and competencies.

There are four main course objectives.

The first is to provide participants with the knowledge, skills, attributes, confidence and competencies to be able to successfully and effectively author, drive, develop and lead high performance strategic organisational and business resilience and security cultures; and be able to successfully translate that into effective and best practice organisational and business security, risk, crisis and continuity operations and frameworks.

The second is to help ‘C’ suite and senior-level personnel understand the ecosystem within which strategic and operational resilience, risk, crisis and continuity management reside: and to have a best practice understanding of specialist resilience, security, risk, crisis and continuity management, which will enhance their leadership and management of operational specialists.

The third objective is to understand and the wider holistic nature of strategic resilience and sustainability across multiple interconnected strands.

The final objective is to encourage leaders to critically reflect on how their response to organisational and business disruption, volatility and threats can be as a catalyst for driving transformation and enhancing resilience, sustainability, security, risk and crisis management.

By the end of this programme and course you will:

• Have enhanced strategic resilience, security and sustainability knowledge, skills and competencies
• Be able to demonstrate high-impact resilience, sustainability, crisis and business continuity leadership

• Be able to apply approaches, methodologies, models, practices and tools to successfully author, develop, drive and lead:
  • High-performance strategic and operational organisational and business resilience, security, risk, crisis and continuity cultures
  • Have specialist SME discipline and leading-edge knowledge appropriate to senior-level leadership
• Have enhanced understanding of appropriate ISO and British best practice standards

• Understand how to use organisational and business disruption, volatility and crises as a catalyst for transformation

Key topics explored include:

Professional Award

Module 1– Geostrategic security – intelligence, issues and trends

Module 2 – Strategic resilience

Module 3 – Strategic sustainability

Module 4 – Strategic security

Module 5 – Strategic risk and behaviours

Module 6 – High impact strategic leadership

Module 7 – Understanding the resilience and security ecosystem

Module 8 – Resilience and governance

Module 9 – Risk, threat and vulnerability – analysis, assessment and management – concepts, models, techniques and tools

Module 10 – Crisis management – concepts, models, techniques and tools

Module 11 – Business continuity management – concepts, models, techniques and tools

Module 12 – Best practice frameworks and practice – ISO and British standards

Professional Certificate

Module 13 – Cyber and Information Security and ISO 27001 – key concepts and framework

Module 14 – Integrated resilience management systems – ISO 22301, ISO 22316, ISO/AWI 22360 and ISO 31000 – concepts, models, techniques and tools

Professional Advanced Certificate

Module 15 Strategic anticipation and foresight analysis

Module 16 – Crisis, Consequence and Recovery Management

You will walk away with:

• Best practice organisational and business strategic and resilience knowledge, skills, competencies and attributes

• An enhanced understanding of:
  • Strategic and operational resilience, sustainability, security, risk, crisis and business continuity
  • High impact strategic resilience leadership
  • The resilience, sustainability and security ecosystem

• The confidence, knowledge, skills to be able to author, build, develop, drive and lead high-performance:
  • Resilience, sustainability, sustainability, risk, crisis and continuity cultures
  • Risk, threat and vulnerability analysis and assessment management frameworks, systems and standards
  • Resilience frameworks, systems and standards
  • Sustainability frameworks, systems and standards
  • Crisis management frameworks, systems and standards
  • Risk, threat and vulnerability analysis and assessment management frameworks, systems and standards
  • Business continuity frameworks, systems and standards

• The techniques and tools to successfully and effectively:
  • Optimise organisational, operational and business resilience, sustainability and continuity

• Specialist and transferable professional skills
• Enhanced career and promotion prospects
• Continuous professional development credits
• A personalised professional and leadership action plan, which in conjunction with the course, critical personal reflection and ongoing professional development will allow you to further develop and put into practice what you have learnt

• Access to our library of resources
• Either a professional award, a professional certificate or an advanced professional certificate

We strongly recommend that in preparation for this course, participants take the time to complete the pre-course work; both so that they reap the fullest rewards and benefits of the courses, and so that it can be tailored and personalised where possible to their individual requirements.

• Think about what your learning priorities and objectives are
• Think about a possible leadership topic, issue, challenge or objective you have a special interest in for discussion in coaching, supervision / tutorials
• Think about what real-world organisational strategic, transformational and resilience objectives you have
• Think about what real-world organisational and business disruption, issues and challenges you face
• Think about how you can use the current climate as a catalyst for change.

Read the suggested literature below:

• file:///C:/Users/DAVIDC~1/AppData/Local/Temp/Strategic-Crisis-Management-paper-July-2013.pdf
• https://www.pwc.ch/en/publications/2019/operational-resilience_final_web-singles.pdf
• https://beta.irgc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Anholt-et-al-for-IRGC-Resilience-Guide-Vol-2-2018.pdf
• https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/uk/Documents/risk/deloitte-uk-make-your-organisation-crisis-resilience.pdf
• https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a08955ed915d3cfd0001c8/EoD_Topic_Guide_What_is_Resilience_May_2016.pdf
• https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/7552.pdf

The investment fee encompasses:

• Face to face contact learning via webinar, online and collaborative technology
• A minimum number of whole class contact hours per days / week / month – subject to programme and course duration selected
• Micro group sessions – depending upon participant numbers and webinar / programme / course duration
• Individual / pair / micro group supervisions / coaching / personal and operational consulting and action planning – depending upon participant numbers and webinar / programme / course duration
• Core course materials – send by email and online
• Supplementary materials – send by email and online
• Complimentary materials – materials – send by email and online
• Access to documents and resources library for the webinar / programme / course duration
• Certificate