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Crisis Management Training: Practice Makes Perfect

Bernstein Crisis Management

Crisis Management Training: Practice Makes Perfect Given the tumultuous nature of the past several years, most organizations probably don’t have to look back too far to recall a situation where the thought, “Wish we’d been more prepared for this!” ” came to mind. Why Does Training Matter?

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Post-Pandemic Business Continuity Recovery Strategies

FEI

I often lead crisis management drills for one of our customers in the hospitality industry. It wasn’t just small business that took a major hit during the pandemic. All this leads to the question: How do you continue to respond to crises with a skeleton staff? Develop a plan for data backup.

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How to Create an Emergency Response Plan

MHA Consulting

Due to the rise in work-from-home, the last few years have seen a serious degradation in organizations’ emergency planning and response capability. In today’s post, we’ll look at why it’s important to have a solid emergency response plan and explain how to create one. Develop and write the emergency response plan.

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4 Common Crisis Management Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Castellan

We’re seeing an increase in multiple disruptions managed simultaneously, thanks in large part to the long-lasting impacts of the pandemic. As such, our customers, particularly those in executive management, are telling us they understand they need a more holistic approach on how to manage crises. That’s not surprising.

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Integrating Risk Disciplines: Business Continuity and Cyber Response

Castellan

Both the definition of “business continuity” and the industry as a whole are evolving. While this has well been the case for the last several years, it’s certainly ever-more true in our post-pandemic world. Cyber resilience is part of a much bigger picture and as such is evolving as a critical component of business continuity.

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Testing your Response Plans: What Would Confucius Say?

On Solve

Steve Goldman discusses the importance of testing your business resiliency and related response plans. An exercise of the elements of a Business Resiliency, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications or IT Disaster Recovery (BR/CM/CC/DR) plan is an important aspect of an organization’s emergency preparedness.

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Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?

FEI

This coordinated response not only allowed for planning discussions to occur but also for team members to provide quick check-ins on their stress. When the COVID-19 pandemic was initially identified as a crisis, our emergency and incident response teams were functioning in their usual brick-and-mortal locations.