Strategic Crisis Management

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Course Introduction

Are you and your organisation ready for those ‘Unexpected Challenges’? This training course will give you the necessary skills and proven practices to ensure you successfully deal with a crisis and will constructively help you to develop those essential crisis management skills and reveal how to effectively use advanced techniques that will improve your leadership performance at that critical time.

The future is becoming more complex, you will only get one chance to get it right so draw on the expertise of crisis researchers, analysts and practitioners and without delay identify all potential vulnerabilities, map out the possible crisis scenarios and mitigate shortcomings.

Objectives

By attending this COPEX training course, you should achieve these goals:

  • How to master the main areas of activity: Preparation, Planning, Response and Recovery
  • How to get the maximum from emergency responders and crisis management teams
  • How to manage yourself and others in a crisis, make judgements, redefine standards, rapidly establish options
  • Develop strategies ensuring that you and your organisation responds efficiently and effectively
  • Understand the five deadly leadership behaviours in a crisis
  • How to implement six winning strategies in a crisis

Who Should Attend?

This powerful COPEX training course will be of benefit to those who find themselves responsible for leading on, or implementing Crisis Management and Emergency Response in both the public and the private sector.

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

Course Outline

Day 1: What should be in place before the Event?

  • Understanding Crisis Management and how to manage a Crisis
  • Consider the complete range of risks facing businesses in the 21st century
  • Crisis Managers - Roles & Responsibilities - manage the issue before it becomes a Crisis
  • Who else inside and outside the organisation should be involved?
  • Five deadly Leadership behaviours & Six winning strategies
  • Understanding 'denial-curve' and 'group-think' syndromes

Day 2: Pre-planning, who and what else should be Considered?

  • Case Studies, why some companies fail and others survive?
  • Who owns the mitigation process?
  • Developing and Implementing Emergency Plans
  • Crisis Management and Communications. Emergency Centre/s
  • Developing and implementing a Business Continuity Management (BCM) strategy
  • Business Impact Analysis. Case Study and Workshop

Day 3: Dealing with a Crisis - the 'Communications' Perspective

  • Command and Control Issues. Operational, Tactical and Strategic
  • On Scene Crisis Management, essential elements for success
  • Reputation Management - Managing the Media.
  • Organising a Press Conference & step by step guidance on how to conduct TV interviews
  • BP Press Conferences – What went wrong?
  • Exercise: Crisis Communications Strategy

Day 4: Incident Management & Aftermath

  • Alerting and Warning. Case Studies. What can go right and what can go wrong
  • Corporate Case Study – BP Texas 2005; BP Alaska 2006; BP Gulf of Mexico 2010.
  • Major Incident Simulation - Role Playing Workshop
  • Potential Psychological & Welfare problems in Crisis Management
  • How to improve staff morale and confidence in the process
  • Questionnaire, are your batteries in good condition?

Day 5: Essential Post Incident Actions

  • Exercises: a programme of learning and of validating plans and procedures;
  • How to get advantageous results from an exercise
  • Post Incident evaluations, de-briefing skills - managing the de-briefs - hot and cold
  • Critique report writing, executive summaries and recommendations
  • Closing the loop. Implementing the recommendations, continuing the process
  • 3 disastrous Case Studies with the same cause, are we learning from others?

Certificate

  • COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

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Whats Makes Copex Courses Unique?

COPEX Training is your gateway to professional growth, with over 20 years of experience turning potential into success. Each year, we deliver over 1,000 courses in 50+ countries, earning a stellar 98% satisfaction rate. Trusted by global giants like BP, the United Nations, and HSBC, we partner with top certification bodies to provide career-focused training that empowers individuals and drives organizational breakthroughs. Our mission? To transform the way professionals learn and grow in today’s fast-changing industries. Through expert insights, cutting-edge methods, and hands-on approaches, we equip you with the skills and confidence to tackle challenges, seize opportunities, and thrive in your career.

Led by a passionate leadership team and supported by a network of world-class trainers, COPEX Training connects professionals worldwide with life-changing opportunities. We are committed to excellence, ensuring every participant leaves with the tools, expertise, and confidence to conquer an ever-evolving world.

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