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BCI's Designing and Delivering Effective Exercises

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    Appreciate the rationale for validating plans and the value this brings
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    Apply good practice to exercise programmes and select appropriate exercise aims, objectives and formats
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    Explore the development of realistic scenarios to engage participants
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    Understand how to resource and co-ordinate delivery
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    Carry out post exercise evaluations and report lessons

Overview

Off the shelf (OTS)

This course provides the business continuity and resilience professional with the knowledge of how to design and develop exercises that work. Designing and delivering effective exercises is a skill to be mastered for any business continuity and resilience professional.

A key part of the validation stage of the business continuity management (BCM) lifecycle, exercising the BCM programme for some is the most interesting part of the job. It helps us to practice what to do when things go wrong, and builds confidence and a capability that means the organisation can more effectively respond, recover, take opportunities, and learn from a disruption. Exercises are the best way to test our systems, rehearse our plans and a chance to safely prepare our people.

This course is based on the BCI Good Practice Guidelines and reflects the current global thinking from ISO 22301 and ISO 22398.

Successful completion of this course requires access an external online assessment. The online assessment platform may not be accessible on Civil Service department IT due to security restrictions. For more information, click here. If you have any questions or believe you may be impacted by these restrictions, please contact support@governmentcampus.co.uk.

Delivery method
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Virtual

Course duration
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14 hours

Competency level
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Foundation

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Delivery method
  • Virtual icon

    Virtual

Course duration
Duration icon

14 hours

Competency level
  • Foundation icon

    Foundation