How would you, your staff and your business cope with a major disaster?
If you should experience a disaster without adequate preparation, the best you can expect is to face large financial losses eroding years of building equity position.
Each hour that your business is at stand still, it will be losing money.
Without a Business Continuity Plan a serious business-disrupting event could result in:
- Lost revenue through unfilled or cancelled orders
- Failures within your supply chain
- Damage to your brand and reputation
- Health and Safety issues
- Human Resources issues.
And in the worst case scenario a disruption can lead to the closure of a business.
As a manager or an owner you have a responsibility to maintain the ability of your organisation to function continuously. You have a duty to deliver your commitments, safeguard the welfare of your staff and honour your contracts with your customer.
Based on British Standard BS25999, this course explains the core principles of business continuity management outlining the processes, the principles and the terminology and provides advice on creating:
- Incident Management Plan
- Business Continuity plan
**Please note: Coventry City Council has sponsored this course to be delivered free to all private & voluntary organisations that are based in its boundaries. Please click on "Costs and funding" tab for more detail.
This course has been divided into seven sections, consisting of an introduction, and six lessons each covering a stage of business continuity management lifecycle.
- Introduction: An overview of business continuity management
- Lesson 1 - BCM programme management.
- Lesson 2 - Understanding your organisation.
- Lesson 3 - Business continuity strategies.
- Lesson 4 - Developing a business continuity response.
- Lesson 5 - Testing and exercising business continuity plans.
- Lesson 6 - Embedding and maintaining business continuity management capability.
This course is aimed at managers or business owners who want to initiate a business continuity management programme within their organisation. This course takes the participants through the business continuity management (BCM) lifecycle in the context of local resilience.
The cost of this course is £280 plus VAT.This will grant you a licence for online access to the course for a period of 3 months, allowing adequate time to accommodate flexible attendance and revisions. You will receive a certificate of completion at the end of the course.
Free access to this course:
As part of a campaign to promote business continuity, Coventry City Council is sponsors this course for all private sector businesses and voluntary organizations based in its boundaries. to qualify for free access to you need to:
* Be a registered business or charity.
* Have a business address in Coventry.
If you satisfy these two conditions, you will get free access to participate in the "The core principles of business continuity management", You need :
- Your business 'Property Code' for your business property in Coventry. This is printed on your Non-Domestic Rates Bill issued by the rates department at Coventrycity council. If you do not have access to your Non-Domestic Rates Bill, call Coventry City Council and they will be able to assist you with your property code.
- When you get your property code, note down the last 10 digits of the Property Code.
- Add the course to the basket and go to the checkout.
- At the checkout entre the 10 digit number in the promotion code field and press the update button
- Once the invoice balance is zero you can purchase the course without having to pay.
In addition Business Link, a government organization, under their directors training program can provide funding for this course please contact us if you need assistance.
