This is the only practical business continuity course that seeks to equip you with essential how-to knowledge, rather than the usual textbook theory. It sets out the step-by-step simplified approaches and practical considerations for developing and implementing your business continuity strategies and plans that are specific to your organisational context and requirements.

At the end of the course, you will acquire practical information that will enable you to develop and implement your organisation’s business continuity system, strategies, and plans with simplicity and minimum effort, and with maximum results and outcomes.

This course has been developed based on my in-depth experience working alongside large and complex organisations like major city hospitals and large nursing homes that have struggled with their business continuity planning. You can’t get any more complex than these operational organisations where poor business continuity planning can lead to the loss of lives!

Taking a top-down risk-based approach to business continuity planning, I have developed a unique strategic approach to business continuity management that effectively focuses on what matters most in building and strengthening organisational resilience. My approach avoids over-engineering or over-complicating the business continuity approach that we commonly experience, see, or read about.

In addition to working with large organisations in implementing practical business continuity, I have also trained more than 1,000 people in my unique business continuity approach.

The key success factor for an effective business continuity program is to start with the identification and development of organisational-wide or top-level business continuity strategies that will effectively guide and simplify the development of all other essential business continuity plans in your organisation at the operational level.

This strategic approach also avoids endless template filling that wastes employees’ time and effort and produces plans that can’t be implemented or do not interoperate or integrate with other plans and strategies.

Like anything else, if you take a bottom-up one-size-fit-all approach to business continuity management as most organisations have done, you will get stuck in the details very quickly. Frustration sets in. And your business continuity plans will never get done.

This is the key reason why many organisations have struggled with their business continuity planning.

Rather than getting overwhelmed with all the requirements of ISO 31000, ISO 22301, ISO 22331, ISO 22332, etc. and the list goes on, I have unpacked their complexities and distilled and simplified many of their key requirements into this course. You will only be exposed to the key elements necessary for a strategic risk-based approach to business continuity planning.

You will start this course by understanding the importance of building and strengthening your organisational resilience within the integrated context of risk management, business continuity management, and resilience management. This will enable your organisation to keep operating regardless of the type of disruption you may experience or face, and achieve your organisational goals and objectives.

This course will show you how to design and implement a fit-for-purpose business continuity system for your organisation. As each organisation is different, I will tell you about the considerations you need to take into account when developing and applying the requirements of ISO 31000, ISO 22301, ISO 22331, ISO 22332, etc.

You will learn about the 10-step business continuity management process.

I will show you why it is so important to get your organisational-wide business continuity strategies right before writing any business continuity plans.This will ensure that your business continuity plans are practical and can interoperate and be integrated with each other.

By aligning these organisational-wide strategies to mitigate the top ten most common disruption-related risks facing your organisation, you can eliminate wasted effort and maximise the outcome of your business continuity program without over-complicating or over-engineering your approach.These disruption-related risks include third-party risks and climate change risks.

I have seen many organisations getting stuck with their business continuity planning without any real implementable business continuity plans to show. It was just a waste of time and effort. Don’t fall into this trap. There is a solution to that problem, and I will show you how to avoid common implementation issues for developing business continuity strategies and plans.

Business continuity management is a complex area.

Whilst I have tried to expose you to the essential foundation of business continuity management in this short course and provide you with lots of free downloads, resources, and information, it is only through hands-on doing, self-learning, and testing that you will learn what will work for your organisation and the business context you are operating in. I have gone through all of that through the school of hard knocks.

To be successful in business continuity management, you need a renewed mindset and a desire to take a different approach. You need to be creative in your approach to business continuity.

I will provide the framework and guidance for you to think strategically without wasting time and effort. You need to develop something implementable, rather than being kept in a drawer as a compliance exercise.

As a bonus to enrolling in this course and to improve your understanding of business continuity, I am giving you a free PDF version of my 157-page eBook, Business Continuity Management - Better Practice Guide, to help you get started with your business continuity journey. You will get lots of examples in this better practice guide.

I have also included a free Model Organisational-Wide Business Continuity Plan that you can complete, customise and adapt to your organisation. There are instructions on how to complete this model plan including considerations you need to take into account.