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BCI - Designing and Delivering Effective Exercises

BCI - Designing and Delivering Effective Exercises
Design successful exercises, train your teams and test your Emergency Response (ER) and Business Continuity Plans (BCP).
Duration :
2 days
Location :
Online
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Price : $1400

Next date :

December 3-4, 2024 | French

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Design and Deliver Effective, Successful and Engaging Exercises that Actually Work

Exercises are the best way to test our systems, to rehearse our plans, and are a chance to safely prepare our people. A key part of the Validation stage of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Lifecycle, practicing the BCM programme is often the most interesting part of our job.  


Take this course to learn concepts and get hands-on experience in preparing and conducting exercises. It will help you practice what to do when things go wrong and build confidence and a capability that means the organization can more effectively respond, recover, take opportunities and learn from a disruption.

Course objectives

By achieving this course, you will:

• learn how to develop a comprehensive exercise program and design specific exercises
• conduct and experience the exercises you will have developed
• carry out post exercise evaluations and report lessons learned

What you will learn

Organizations that perform regular exercises have been proven to be the fittest and fastest to recover after a crisis. Based on the BCI Good Practice Guidelines Edition 7.0 and reflecting the current global thinking from ISO 22301 and ISO 22398, this 2-day course will teach you how to train your teams and test your Emergency Response and Business Continuity Plans.

Module 1 - People Vs Paper - The value of exercises: Learn the global concepts when exercising: Test Vs Exercise, team and equipment capability, exercising within the BCM Lifecycle, supporting validation and continual improvement.


Module 2 - Exercising Programmes:
Understand how to validate plans over time, the function of the exercise programme and to develop an exercise programme.


Module 3 - The Design and Delivery Team:
Explore what teams are required, roles within these teams, additional support needed and top Management reporting.


Module 4 - Setting the Aim and Objectives:
Understand why aims and objectives are important and how aims and objectives influence evaluation.


Module 5 - Format Options:
Analyze different format types, their pros and cons, as well as the advantage of combining formats.


Module 6 - Scenario Development:
Develop on what is the function of the scenario, linking the scenario to the objectives, presenting and controlling the scenario and how to bring a sense of realism.


Module 7 – Logistics - Documentation, Resources and Communications:
Study documents required to deliver an exercise, resource requirements and communication associated.


Module 8 – Delivery:
Master the key stages of exercise delivery and their potential challenges.


Module 9 - Risk Management:
Determine the risks of delivering an exercise and how to respond to these risks.


Module 10 - Evaluating and Reporting:
Conclude with a post-mortem of post-exercise debriefing, reporting results, lessons identified vs. lessons learned and continual improvement.

During this workshop, you will obtain documentation and you will apply the concepts. It will provide you with theoretical guidance and practical experience in dealing with a variety of incidents.

Who is this for?

The course is for Business Continuity and resilience professionals who are responsible for developing and delivering exercises:

  • professionals who want to start training their teams and who need to learn how to effectively exercise plans
  • professionals who want to optimize their actual plans

This course includes

  • an electronic copy of the BCI Good Practice Guidelines - Edition 7.0, valued at $90 USD or $120 CAD
  • BCI Course material (modules)
  • additional documentation and templates developed by Premier Continuum

Requirements

For the Designing and delivering effective exercises course, no prior training is mandatory, although: 

  • a minimum of a CBCI or equivalent credential with experience working in an organization in a continuity and resilience related role is helpful
  • prior knowledge in any of these fields is helpful, but a participant will benefit from this training even if he has not attended other training

Attestation

All students will receive an official certificate of attendance directly from the BCI after they successfully completed this course.

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December 3-4, 2024 | French
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About Premier Continuum

A leader in Business Continuity, Premier Continuum helps worldwide organizations increase their organizational resilience through professional consulting and training services, supported by ParaSolution, its world-class BCM software. As a certified training partner of the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) since 2008 and of ICOR since 2014, we have offered hundreds of classes in Canada, USA and Europe and trained more than 500 professionals. We take pride in sharing our unparalleled knowledge of the standards and best practices, our practical field-experience and our complete vision of resilience with our students.

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Customer testimonials

Find out how our training courses have helped professionals across North America and around the world develop organizational resilience.

This course validated our approach to conducting emergency exercises while updating our knowledge of the subject. Great energy and friendly approach throughout the exchanges. It is a privilege to be able to benefit from Marie-Hélène's teachings. Thank you very much!

Martin Hébert

BCI - Designing and Delivering Effective Exercises, Canada, 2024

I enjoyed how practically the course was built. I found the structure to be very valuable; with participants being encouraged to use the time to develop a potential exercise, and then testing that exercise against the determined aims and objectives. This structure allowed us to share our ideas and feedback throughout the two days which allowed me to have a deeper understanding of what I'm trying to accomplish.

Hannah Pearce

BCI - Designing and Delivering Effective Exercises, Canada, 2024

This training will be very useful for my responsibilties at work. Complete documentation available for download for reference and further learning. Many thanks!

Claudine Girouard

BCI - Designing and Delivering Effective Exercises, Canada, 2024

It was a very relevant training that will help me in the preparation of my first exercises. It was very interesting to be with participants from other companies to see how things are going elsewhere.

Jean-Sébastien Houle

BCI - Designing and Delivering Effective Exercises, Canada, 2024

The course provided a comprehensive review on designing exercise programs and designing/delivering individual exercises.

Cheryl Hirst

BCI - Designing and Delivering Effective Exercises, United States, 2024

Excellent training, I loved the fact that I had an experienced teacher who was able to share some real cases with us.

David Blain

BCI - Designing and Delivering Effective Exercises, Canada, 2023

December 3-4, 2024 | French
December 5-6, 2024 | English
January 22-23, 2025 | English
April 1-2, 2025 | French
April 14-15, 2025 | English
September 22-23, 2025 | English
September 24-25, 2025 | French