Course aim

This course enables you to understand the ‘people’ aspects of business continuity and contrast those aspects with ‘human resources’ elements. This will help you to identify any aspects that are applicable to your own organization and others. You will build knowledge and skills to prepare a response for recovering and restoring the people elements of your organization following an incident or disruption.

Course description

Business continuity planning forms an essential part of an organization's tools for maintaining continuity of critical products and services. The focus of this course is to look at the ‘people’ elements’ of business continuity in contrast to ‘human resources’ elements. The course explores the key concepts of people and human risk from the standpoint of human resource professionals and risk professionals. This will enable critical thinking around the themes of risk appetite and risk assessment techniques as well as recovery strategies. Business continuity strategies and solutions are introduced as prerequisites for formulating useful continuity plans and plans to recover services through to business as usual (BAU). You will be encouraged to make links to other disciplines such as health and safety, as well as how to engage with external interested parties, such as the emergency services. This course combines presentations as well as individual and team activities designed to establish and cement a practical understanding of the elements of the people aspects of business continuity, enabling you to construct, deploy and validate relevant people strategies and solutions, as well as plans and procedures, on returning to the workplace

How will I benefit?

This course will help you: Recognize the differences between ‘people’ and ‘human resources’ parts of a business continuity management system (BCMS) Consider different ways of looking at people risk Consider different strategies and solutions to people risk in an organization Apply the knowledge practically for consideration in the workplace

What will I learn?

You’ll have the knowledge to: Recognize the concepts behind the people aspects of business continuity Identify any aspects applicable to your own organization or others Develop the response to the people aspects of business continuity You’ll have the skills to: Prepare to respond to an incident or disruption Develop the recovery and restoration of your organization from a ‘people management’ perspective

Who should attend?

Anyone involved in providing critical services with the interest or responsibility of formulating recovery arrangements following product or service disruption. Anyone with people in their organization.

How will I learn?

Our high-impact accelerated learning approach increases learning by improving knowledge retention and skill application. This course is activity based, resulting in a deeper understanding of the material and a greater impact on job performance.

What will I gain?

On completion, you’ll be awarded an internationally recognized BSI Training Academy certificate.

Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites for attending this course, however an understanding of Business Impact Analysis and Business Risk Assessment, as well as Business Continuity Plans, is useful to get most out of this course.

Related training

You may also be interested in attending our Business Impact Analysis Training Course, Crisis Management Training Course and Business Continuity Plans Training Course.