Exercising the Business Continuity Plan

Course Description
A two day interactive workshop program teaching the techniques to achieve success and the processes required to design, manage, and evaluate exercises for Business Continuity, Emergency Management or Pandemic Plans. The seminar is designed to be fast paced with many opportunities for participation and discussion.  Participants use the techniques learned in the first day and a half of the workshop to conduct and participate in a 1 hour tabletop exercise during the second afternoon. Seminar materials include a 3 ring binder with the presentation slides, 29 templates in both hard and soft copies consisting of 26 design and evaluation forms, a tabletop exercise development guide and 2 post-exercise report formats.  All templates are non-copyright and can be used as desired by participants. 

Locations

Internationally:

Price
Workshop Price: $985.00 for the 2 days including workshop materials mentioned above

Audience
There is no prerequisite to this course.  It is designed for anyone who will be involved in planning, managing or evaluating a business continuity, emergency management or pandemic exercise. The optimum class size is 8-16 participants.

Duration
2 days

• Exercise concepts
  
• Planning the exercise
  
• Develop an exercise program
  
• Develop exercise scenarios
  
• Prepare a single exercise activity list
  
• Develop the scope and objectives for an exercise
  
• Define the roles for:
  • Exercise Director
    
  • Design team
    
  • Controllers
    
  • Evaluators, Observers, and Auditors
• Senior management participation
  
• Develop problem sets and inject times
  
• Prepare a briefing and de-briefing summary
  
• Develop evaluation criteria
  
• Manage the exercise activities
  
• Evaluate the exercise

Exercise Workshop Tools and Templates Included with the Course Material:
All tools, templates and reports provided with this workshop are in MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel formats. The documents are license free and are fully editable by participants for use in their own organizations. A valuable time-saver!

• Exercise Planning Checklist
• Exercise Budget Planner
• Exercise Program Annual Schedule
• Exercise Project Control Summary
• Single Exercise Schedule
• Exercise Communiqué
• Scope & Objectives Worksheet
• Approval Request
• Scenario Idea List
• Scenario Development Worksheet
• Exercise Team Members and Assignments
• Problem Set/Inject Development Worksheet
• Master Problem Set list
• Problem Sets & Inject Time Worksheet
• Participant Worksheet
• Exercise Briefing Guide
• Briefing Summary Worksheet
• De-briefing Guide
• News Information Form
• Observer feedback
• Participant feedback
• Evaluator Record Worksheet
• General Exercise Evaluation
• Full Tabletop Exercise Planning Guide – 11 pages
• Exercise Evaluation Cross Reference Tool
• First Impressions Report Template - PowerPoint

Course Outline

Day 1 AM
- Welcome and intros
- Lecture and theory of exercise planning
- Small team activity to identify the assets of a fictitious company

Day 1 PM
- 2 teams established
- Each team is assigned activities relative to the design of a table top exercise
- Teams present results to full class

Day 2 AM
- Teams review previous day activities
- Short period of lecture
- Teams continue exercise development

Day 2 PM
- Final exercise development activities
- 2:15 PM: start a "Command & Control" tabletop exercise based on effort of past 1.5 days
- 3:15 PM conclude the exercise
- conduct an evaluation and de-briefing
- 4 PM Terminate the workshop

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