Managing Financial Crisis & Decision Making Course

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Course Overview

Learning Objectives:

Acquire an 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 site learn how to avoid miss-management and so make 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 crisis.
Learn the fundamentals of organizing and managing Crisis or Emergency Control Centers.
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.
Describe the steps in the decision making process.
Identify the assumptions of the rational decision making model.
Define certainty, risk, and uncertainty as they relate to decision making.
Describe the actions of the bounded rational decision maker.
Identify the two types of decision problems and the two types of decisions that are used to solve them.
Define heuristics and explain how they affect the decision making process.
Identify four decision making styles .
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of group decisions.

Objective:

By the end of the program, participants are expected to:

Acquire an 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 site learn how to avoid miss-management and so make 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 crisis.
Learn the fundamentals of organizing and managing Crisis or Emergency Control Centers.
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.

Course Outline

Day 1 - Understanding Crisis Management:

How to manage a crisis?
Virtually every crisis contains the seeds of success as well as the roots of failure.
The Rationale of the Crisis Manager.
Consider the range of risks: Natural/Environmental; Hazards; Technological - loss of utilities/product/process/plant; Human Error; Sabotage and Terrorism.
Crisis Managers - Roles & Responsibilities - manage the issue before it becomes a Crisis.

Day 2 - Who decides who sits in the 'hot-seat'?

Case Studies, why some companies fail and others survive?
Who owns the mitigation process?

Self-evaluating questionnaires

Developing and Implementing Emergency Plans

Twelve point check list covering the whole planning process

Mutual Aid arrangements

Company-wide strategic contingency plans

Service or departmental plans

Building evacuation plans

Day 3 - Crisis Management and Communications. Emergency Centre/s

Developing and implementing a Business Continuity Management (BCM) strategy
Business Impact Analysis. Case Study and Workshop
Dealing with a crisis - the 'communications' perspective

Command and Control Issues

Operational (at the scene)

Tactical (at the forward control point/incident command)

Strategic (boardroom level/emergency operations centre)

On Scene Crisis Management, essential elements for success

Day 4 - Reputation Management - Managing the Media. 'How to' sessions

Organizing a Press Conference
Conducting Radio and Television Interviews
Case Study Exercise: Crisis Communications Strategy. Develop a crisis communications strategy and action plan based upon a given scenario
Incident Management & Aftermath
Alerting and Warning. Case Studies. What can go right and what can go wrong

Day 5 - Potential Psychological & Welfare problems in Crisis Management

How to improve staff morale and confidence in the process
The psychological effects during and after an incident involving injuries - and worse
Looking after yourself and your staff
Leadership Behavior and Behavioral Safety

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