Training

Business Continuity Training/Workshops

2010 Course Dates

5^th March & 28^th May

Please note that if your chosen course is full, we often run additional courses throughout the year so simply register your interest with us below.

Time:

Course A: 09:30 - 12.30
Course B: 14:00 - 17:00

Venue:

Central London or arranged locally TBC depending on numbers.

Cost:

£395 either session or £645 for both.

Contact us to register

Business Continuity Planning can be a complex topic for those that have no previous experience. How to tackle the task can seem daunting enough and unless you know what you are doing, organisations frequently invest significant wasted effort before realising that help is needed.

For many smaller organisations, the cost of using external consultants to assist with implementing formal Business Continuity Plans often seems prohibitive. At Beeches Consulting, we therefore offer short training courses to assist organisations to develop their own plans using a pragmatic but effective and proven approach.

We run two courses which, depending on your requirements, you can undertake individually or together. The first course provides all that you need to support you with developing an effective plan for your organisation. The second provides, particularly for the larger organisations, a more detailed insight into formal Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis which may be required depending on the complexity of your organisation.

For details on what's included on each course please see below, or alternatively contact us to discuss your bespoke requirements.

Course A: An Introduction to Business Continuity Planning

Objectives

To provide attendees with an understanding of Business Continuity Planning.

Understand why you need to prepare?
How to identify the risks within an organisation
Recognise what makes an effective Business Continuity Plan (BCP)

Approach

The course will use presented materials and hand outs to enable attendees to prepare an effective BCP and will cover:

Steps and approaches to developing a plan
How to gain "buy-in" and key considerations
The key considerations for any organisation
Developing the Scope of Business Continuity
How to develop the Business Continuity Strategy
Structure of a proven BCP (examples and handouts)
Testing and communicating the plan and "keeping it alive"

Course B: Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis

Objectives

To enable the larger SME to exploit formal risk assessment and Business Impact Analysis Techniques in,

Identifying and assessing risks (approach and techniques)
Carrying out Business Impact Analysis
Determining a Recovery Strategy for the organisation (RTO and RPO)
Gaining internal "buy-in" to the Business Continuity Project

Approach

This is an interactive session using example or real scenarios to ensure that each attendee leaves the course with the ability to carry out high-level RA and BIA for their own organisations.