Workshop: Business Continuity Management

Course overview

Business Continuity Management (BCM) has become increasingly important as organisations realise that any unscheduled disruptions or major event can have serious long term consequences to its operations.

The BCM workshop is designed to provide learning outcomes relating to the fundamentals of BCM including key components, stages, roles and responsibilities in working together as a team under stress.

Who should attend

This workshop provides both awareness and refresher training for management and key staff involved in managing an unscheduled disruption.  Risk managers, compliance managers, auditors, staff involved in business continuity planning and people responsible for supporting business continuity activities will also benefit.

Duration

One day.  Course handouts, templates and case studies included.  A certificate of attainment is issued to each participant upon successful completion.

Participants can claim up to 6 hours of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) time.

Course Outline

•  Business Continuity Management fundamentals

• Awareness of the Business Continuity process, language and terminology

• Stages and priorities during an unscheduled disruption

• Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and identification of critical business functions,  systems, resources and dependencies

• Risk assessments and priorities

• Response, Recovery and Resumption Strategies

• Plan implementation and training

• Working together under stress

• Importance of testing, rehearsals and assurance – putting paper into practice

•  Maintenance of the BCP

 The workshop is based on specific learning objectives and includes interactive activities, case studies and DVD’s.

 Benefits to your organisation

•  Help develop people’s capabilities and skills to contribute to the development of business continuity planning in your organisation.

• Links the relationship between emergency management, crisis management, business recovery and business resumption.

• Ensure you can apply industry best practice and latest standards.

• Improve the overall preparedness of your organisation to a major disruption.

•  Improve the effectiveness in conducting specific BCM activities.

 Workshop Leader

David Martin has extensive experience in business continuity, crisis management, disaster recovery and emergency risk management programs with leading ASX listed corporations, government departments, local government, financial service providers and small to medium size business. This has involved leading, co-ordinating and writing BCM plans, implementation support, one-on-one and group training, facilitating workshops and full scale testing and reporting.  David is a Member of RMIA, a Fellow of AIM and holds a degree in Aeronautical Engineering.

Public training dates

Thursday, 18 September 2008

Wednesday, 22 october 2008

Venue

InConsult

Level 12, 35 Pitt Street,  Sydney  NSW

Register

Please print the attached form and fax back to 02 9253 3001 to secure your place. Registration form

Prefer in-house training?

We can also run a full day Business Continuity Management Workshop especially for your organisation.  This is very cost effective and the workshop can be customised to suite your business continuity management framework.  Please email us for more information.