December, 2015

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Predictive mindsets

Crisis Response Journal

Assessing and managing uncertainty while predicting future risks is something Rob McAlister, Director of Glenbarr consultancy, is very familiar with and he writes that all organisations and sectors can benefit from introducing a type of predictive mindset By Robert McAlister

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Resilience – The difference between it and Business Continuity

Plan B Consulting

This week saw the Commons vote by a large majority for British forces to start bombing Syria. Watching the news we didn’t have to wait very long before we heard that the bombing had started. As the coalition has been bombing ISIS for several months now, I am not sure how our contribution is going to make a huge military difference, other than being symbolic.

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AlertMedia 2015 Highlights: A Year in Review

Alert Media

The post AlertMedia 2015 Highlights: A Year in Review appeared first on AlertMedia.

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The perfection trap 

Crisis Response Journal

In a crisis, when reality is changing by the day or even by the hour and when there is no way of knowing with certainty what lies ahead or the best course of action to take, there is no time for perfection, writes Rob McAlister, CRJ Advisory Panel member By Robert McAlister

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Putting things in boxes 

Crisis Response Journal

Eric Russell writes that acknowledging and then acting on our abilities and limitations in an immediate space around us, ie our ‘box’, can help us to cope with the overwhelming distress of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Covid-19: Useful links, fact checking, home-working advice 

Crisis Response Journal

During these trying times your own situational awareness matters a great deal. Unfortunately, owing to the very nature of this pandemic, there’s no one-size-fits-all common operating picture.

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Organisational resilience: Protecting your people and business from fire 

Crisis Response Journal

Gary Villeneuve, Director of Education at DRI International, outlines how an all-hazards approach is crucial for protecting an organisation and the people that make it valuable By Gary Villeneuve

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Bhopal's ongoing disasters: An update 

Crisis Response Journal

On the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster this time last year, Crisis Response Journal told the story of Bhopal’s Twin Disasters, explaining how the abandoned and unremediated Union Carbide pesticide factory, with its thousands of tonnes of highl By Colin Toogood

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Factoring social media into crisis planning and exercising 

Crisis Response Journal

When you are planning for how you’re going to cope with an emergency, or when you’re in any kind of exercise scenario, you’re not simulating reality if you’re not factoring in social media, says Lorraine Homer By Lorraine Homer

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Observing the EST-USAR IEC INSARAG Classifiers Programme in Estonia 

Crisis Response Journal

This November, Editorial Advisory Panel Member Christo Motz was invited to act as an external observer on behalf of the CRJ for a 36-hour disaster exercise in Estonia.

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CRJ 11:2 Out soon 

Crisis Response Journal

The next issue of the Crisis Response Journal is out now: Here's a look at what's coming up; click here for article summaries (or full articles for subscribers).

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TRIP Group Masterclass 

Crisis Response Journal

On March 4, 2020, the Travel Risk and Incident Prevention (TRIP) Group hosted a Masterclass on Kidnapping Response at the Victory Services Club in London.

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A new approach to emergency support 

Crisis Response Journal

The Joint Civil Aid Corps is a voluntary emergency support organisation looking to become a modern day Civil Defence Corps, explains Colin Harmsworth.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Why we should keep a diary in a crisis 

Crisis Response Journal

During a crisis response, everything runs on fast-forward. Days roll into months, and as the stakes change, the response evolves to cope.

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Navigating through the Covid-19 storm

Crisis Response Journal

Navigating through the Covid-19 storm.

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Resilience – The difference between it and Business Continuity

Plan B Consulting

This week saw the Commons vote by a large majority for British forces to start bombing Syria. Watching the news we didn’t have to wait very long before we heard that the bombing had started. As the coalition has been bombing ISIS for several months now, I am not sure how our contribution is going to make a huge military difference, other than being symbolic.

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Loss of Telecoms: their unexpected impact

Plan B Consulting

Armageddon averted – the unexpected impact from loss of telecoms As we have seen from photographs there has been another huge rainstorm and more flooding in the Carlisle area. Invariably there will be some lessons learned which we can share from this, however I am not sure what else we can say in this blog about flooding. It is interesting, after the recent bulletin on resilience, that we have flooding in an area which has had £40m spent on flood defences after the last series of serious f

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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Loss of Telecoms: their unexpected impact

Plan B Consulting

Armageddon averted – the unexpected impact from loss of telecoms. As we have seen from photographs there has been another huge rainstorm and more flooding in the Carlisle area. Invariably there will be some lessons learned which we can share from this, however I am not sure what else we can say in this blog about flooding. It is interesting, after the recent bulletin on resilience, that we have flooding in an area which has had £40m spent on flood defences after the last series of serious

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Why you need a notification system……

Plan B Consulting

When I was the Business Continuity Manager at Scottish Power one of my roles was to ensure that I could contact staff in an emergency. This would typically be to either call out members of the incident teams, to tell staff to go to their work area recovery location, or to tell them to stay at home. To practice this I invented an exercise called the Bronze Receiver.

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Why you need a notification system……

Plan B Consulting

When I was the Business Continuity Manager at Scottish Power one of my roles was to ensure that I could contact staff in an emergency. This would typically be to either call out members of the incident teams, to tell staff to go to their work area recovery location, or to tell them to stay at home. To practice this I invented an exercise called the Bronze Receiver.

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