Conference: Strategic Crisis Management: Planning for Unexpected Challenges

"Are you 100% confident that you and your organization are prepared, if not, where do you start"? Simply put, the best way of dealing with a crisis is to avoid one in the first place. But if crises are inevitable due to a growing number of factors (including terrorism) then you and your organization need to identify all vulnerabilities and map out possible crisis scenarios.

 

Effective Strategic Crisis Management depends on sound and swift decision-making, and neither can happen without corporate-wide and multi-agency pre-planning. Expert analysis of the business crisis finds that rushed strategic management decisions, incorrect statements, actions, or inactions have caused many of the most newsworthy business crises during or following an event.

 

Effective Strategic Crisis Management begins with effective decision-making. In an emergency, the first major decisions made regarding how to handle the unfolding situation are almost always the most important ones. Good initial decisions can make even a catastrophe manageable; bad decisions can fatally exacerbate an otherwise small problem. In both cases, the window of opportunity for initial decision making is extremely small and closes rapidly. Once the moment for decision making has gone, it does not come back.

 

Your strategic corporate response must be coordinated and effective, your strategic crisis management team/s pre-identified and fully trained.

 

At the end of this conference, the participants will be able to:

 

  • Acquire in-depth knowledge of the key aspects of Strategic Crisis Management.
  • Learn how to identify incidents and crises so you can cultivate and harness the potential successes of a crisis.
  • At the incident, the site learns how to avoid mismanagement and so makes a bad situation worse.
  • Learn how to generate ownership and responsibility by all stakeholders to ensure your organization responds efficiently and effectively.
  • Learn how to recognize and prioritize the issues that are most likely to affect corporate reputation during and after the crisis.
  • Learn the fundamentals of organizing and managing Crisis or Emergency Control Centres.
  • Learn how to plan and manage multi-agency exercises - and make them more rewarding and exciting.
  • Take away step by step guidance on how to validate plans, to improve staff ownership, to augment training programs, and to raise awareness.

 

  • Security & Fire Management
  • Health, Safety, and Environment personnel
  • Emergency and Crisis Management Responders
  • Professionals who have been allocated crisis management tasks yet have had insufficient time to devote to the subject

 

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