Course Number: 1010
Length: 1 Day
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Workshop for Managers
Everything from pandemics to natural disasters and cyber-attacks have underscored the importance for organizations to have disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
For organizations that don’t have the proper plans in place, the effects can be catastrophic in the face of a disaster.
Financial loss, of course, is the most apparent consequence of failing to have disaster recovery and business continuity plans. The longer a business goes without delivering its products and services, the greater its financial losses. Eventually, these losses may force a business to make tough decisions, such as cutting employees.
But there can also be other losses as well such as technological consequences, including the loss of important or sensitive data.
A business continuity plan is created to help ensure that business processes will be able to continue in the case of an emergency or disaster. A disaster recovery plan should already be developed before any sort of disaster to ensure how it will be resolved. It should be a documented process or set of procedures for recovery.
Both plans are essential to organizations because some risks can’t be eliminated. Organizations implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans to prepare for any potential disruptive event and it is considered an essential part of any risk mitigation plan, both processes are equally important because they provide detailed strategies on how the business will continue after severe interruptions and disasters.
Having business continuity and disaster recovery plans in place can help companies minimize the consequences of a catastrophic event. Like insurance, these plans provide peach of mind.
Not only that, but studies show that both business owners and their management teams (as well as employees) feel more comfortable in a working environment knowing there are very specific and clear policies for procedures involved in disaster response.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Workshop for Managers, 1-Day Workshop Series
Whether it’s a natural disaster like a hurricane, storm, flood or wildfire, or it’s a mechanical or facility disaster like a boiler failure or toxic chemical spill, having a plan in place can help make your organization less vulnerable and provide a framework for a return to business as usual.
Participants will learn how to:
- Recognize the events that might compromise their business, assess the threats facing their company and identify steps to eliminate or minimize the impact of those threats.
- Develop procedures that enable them to respond when a disaster occurs or is forecast to occur.
- Identify their company’s critical business functions and define procedures that will facilitate restoration of sales, production and operations to pre-disaster levels.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan Workshop Topics:
- Disaster Recovery Fundamentals
- Analyzing Your Organizational Context
- Business Continuity Requirements
Working with Disaster Recovery Plan Template - Working with Business Continuity Plan Template
- The Components of a Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan
- Managing Risks
- Assessing how quickly you bounce back after a hurricane
- Recovery costs
- Prepare, Respond, Recover
- Steps to Executing a Hurricane Business Continuity Plan
- Preparedness
- Emergency Response
- Responding to Incidents
- Business Recovery
- Designing Contingency Arrangements
- Testing and Rehearsing
Working with Business Continuity Plan Template (Checklist and Cheat Sheets)
- Analyze your Organization’s Business Operations and Essential Functions
- Essential Functions and Personnel
- Risk Assessments and Evaluations
- Risk Management
- Immediate Response and Impact Levels
- Administrative Procedures
- Communications Plan
- Resource and Procurement Management Plans
- Designation of Authority
- Devolution
- Alternate Facility Operations
- Activation and Relocation
- Mission Critical Systems
- Essential Records Management
- Reconstitution
- Logistics
- Alternate Location
- Interoperable Communications
- Planning Responsibilities
- Training, Tests and Exercise
- Maintenance & Improvement
- Alternate Location/Facility Information
- Maps and Evacuation Routes
- Department Impact Form
- Public Health Emergencies
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Workshop for Managers