Sat.Aug 08, 2020 - Fri.Aug 14, 2020

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Five Levels to A Purposeful Life

Norita Omar

Ever felt like… 😓 Bored (“there’s nothing interesting for me to do!”). 😓 Empty. 😓 Hopeless. 😓 Confused. 😓 Uninspired. I’ve been in your position. When I had my brain injury in 2006, I was clueless on the next steps I should take as the life I knew were gone. Battling myself and uncertainty of what life would be next, I went back to what I knew from Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

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The Real Deal: What’s Your High-Tech High-Touch Pandemic Solution?

PEAK Learning

“I just ache. (Pause. Breath.) I ache for my team, my family, my friends…for everyone!” This was the tearful response of a beloved colleague, client, and now friend, when asked “So tell me honestly, how’re you doing these days?” I sure feel it. Don’t you? For many of us, the hardest part of this new era is the loss of the tactile—hugs, high-fives, handshakes—and affectionate exchanges that make and keep us human.

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Do Your Due! Post-COVID Business Continuity Due Diligence

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

… And just like that… every business in the US and internationally is operating in Business Continuity mode! Employees displaced, workplaces inaccessible, supply chains disrupted, customers unavailable, products not moving. Some had plans, some are improvising, and the Governors are dictating most of the responses anyway. ​​ How can you be sure that your counter-parties will be there for you for the next business-interrupting event?

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Ep. 07: Spotlight on Business Continuity Programs in Healthcare | James Mitchell

The Failover Plan Podcast

Episode Summary: This week, Shane interviews James Mitchell- the Director of Organizational Resilience at the 724-bed Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX. His responsibilities encompass Emergency Management, Business Continuity and Enterprise Risk. . The last few months he has been heavily involved with a historic pandemic response at Texas Children’s which involved a 140+ day activation of their incident command system.

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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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20% of workers don’t follow company security policies all the time

Behavior Group

IT personnel burn a full month of work (21 days) managing Identity and Access Management (IAM) each year on mundane tasks such as resetting passwords and tracking app usage. workers don’t follow company security policies, IT workers, password/span> According to a new survey from 1Password, IAM continues to be a significant productivity bog for IT… Continue reading.

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Hurricane Response and Recovery: The Role Businesses Play

Alert Media

The post Hurricane Response and Recovery: The Role Businesses Play appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Systems Thinking for Business Continuity

Business Continuity Today

This week we start our series about looking at different ways to uses systems, thought processes, and planning fundamentals to help you use business continuity and risk analysis processes every day. The Business Continuity Show Twitter - [link] Facebook - [link] LinkedIn - [link] YouTube - [link] Sister Shows EM Weekly Website - [link] Twitter - [link] Facebook - [link] LinkedIn - [link] YouTube - [link] EM Student Web - [link] Twitter - [link] Facebook - [link] LinkedIn - [link] YouTube - [link

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The pandemic had a negative impact on data center operations

Behavior Group

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in a negative impact on organizations’ ability to manage their storage infrastructures in order to ensure continued access to an increasingly remote workforce and to satisfy health protocols put in place to protect workers, according to StorONE. pandemic, data center The impact on data center operations More… Continue reading.

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The Effects of Stress on Incident Management Teams

Plan B Consulting

This week I look at stress and the impact it can have on teams and individuals during incidents. I am busy reading a paper by Mica Endsley titled ‘Towards a Theory of Situational Awareness in Dynamic Systems’, which I have been looking forward to reading for a while! I find the whole process of incident management and how to improve a team’s ability to effectively manage incidents fascinating and I am very keen to use academic work to improve the quality of mine and my clients’ training in the s

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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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Optimizing Storage Performance in AWS with InfoScale

VOX Veritas

See the test results that show storage IOPs could be increased by 32.1% when utilizing SmartIO to configure the ephemeral EC2 storage as a read cache area.

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Systems Thinking for Business Continuity

Business Continuity Today

This week we start our series about looking at different ways to uses systems, thought processes, and planning fundamentals to help you use business continuity and risk analysis processes every day. The Business Continuity Show Twitter - [link] Facebook - [link] LinkedIn - [link] YouTube - [link] Sister Shows EM Weekly Website - [link] Twitter - [link] Facebook - [link] LinkedIn - [link] YouTube - [link] EM Student Web - [link] Twitter - [link] Facebook - [link] LinkedIn - [link] YouTube - [link

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A Model for Situational Awareness

Plan B Consulting

This week I shares a model of situational awareness from the Endsley paper and discusses how this can be applied to incident management. This week I carried out my first Live Online Advanced Incident Response and Crisis Management public training course, and I decided to add some information from the Endsley paper I was reading on situational awareness.

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Achieving situational awareness during an incident

Plan B Consulting

Following last week’s bulletin, I share some ideas on how to implement and carry out situational awareness when responding to an incident. Last week we talked about the process of situational awareness during an incident and how all the activities come together to achieve good awareness of the situation we are managing an incident within. Today I thought I would share some ideas about how to actually implement and carry this out when responding to an incident.

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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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The Effects of Stress on Incident Management Teams

Plan B Consulting

This week I look at stress and the impact it can have on teams and individuals during incidents. I am busy reading a paper by Mica Endsley titled ‘Towards a Theory of Situational Awareness in Dynamic Systems’, which I have been looking forward to reading for a while! I find the whole process of incident management and how to improve a team’s ability to effectively manage incidents fascinating and I am very keen to use academic work to improve the quality of mine and my clients’ training in the s

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The Effects of Stress on Incident Management Teams

Plan B Consulting

This week I look at stress and the impact it can have on teams and individuals during incidents. I am busy reading a paper by Mica Endsley titled ‘Towards a Theory of Situational Awareness in Dynamic Systems’, which I have been looking forward to reading for a while! I find the whole process of incident management and how to improve a team’s ability to effectively manage incidents fascinating and I am very keen to use academic work to improve the quality of mine and my clients’ training in the s

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Achieving situational awareness during an incident

Plan B Consulting

Following last week’s bulletin, I share some ideas on how to implement and carry out situational awareness when responding to an incident. Last week we talked about the process of situational awareness during an incident and how all the activities come together to achieve good awareness of the situation we are managing an incident within. Today I thought I would share some ideas about how to actually implement and carry this out when responding to an incident.

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The Effects of Stress on Incident Management Teams

Plan B Consulting

This week I look at stress and the impact it can have on teams and individuals during incidents. I am busy reading a paper by Mica Endsley titled ‘Towards a Theory of Situational Awareness in Dynamic Systems’, which I have been looking forward to reading for a while! I find the whole process of incident management and how to improve a team’s ability to effectively manage incidents fascinating and I am very keen to use academic work to improve the quality of mine and my clients’ training in the s

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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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Achieving situational awareness during an incident

Plan B Consulting

Following last week’s bulletin, I share some ideas on how to implement and carry out situational awareness when responding to an incident. Last week we talked about the process of situational awareness during an incident and how all the activities come together to achieve good awareness of the situation we are managing an incident within. Today I thought I would share some ideas about how to actually implement and carry this out when responding to an incident.

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A Model for Situational Awareness

Plan B Consulting

This week I shares a model of situational awareness from the Endsley paper and discusses how this can be applied to incident management. This week I carried out my first Live Online Advanced Incident Response and Crisis Management public training course, and I decided to add some information from the Endsley paper I was reading on situational awareness.