This CDGA training course will feature:

• • How to be successful in the Four critical areas of Emergency Response
  • Utilise the Five Levels of Leadership to get the maximum from your Teams
  • Fourteen characteristics you need to learn to be an effective Crisis Leader
  • How to avoid mis-management and so make a bad situation worse
  • Rapidly establishing options, making judgements, redefining standards
  • Analysis of the human factor, psychological readiness, discipline & leadership

By the end of this CDGA training course, participants will be able to:

• • Acquire an in-depth knowledge of Strategic Crisis Management
  • Develop strategies so you and your team respond efficiently and effectively
  • Analyse Five deadly leadership behaviours and Six winning stra
  • tegies in a crisis
  • Implement the Five major functional areas of Incident Command Systems
  • Plan for more beneficially rewarding multi-agency exercises
  • Effectively use advanced techniques that will improve leadership performance at that critical time

Anyone who find themselves responsible for leading on, or implementing Crisis Management, Emergency Response and Business Continuity/Recovery mechanisms.

This CDGA training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• • Fire Management Professionals
  • Security Management Professionals
  • Health, Safety and Environment personnel
  • Operation, Asset and Facility Professionals
  • Risk, Marketing and Insurance Professionals
  • Designated Incident, Emergency and Crisis Response Professionals
  • Line Managers and Supervisors and other professionals wishing to appraise their comprehension of Emergency Response
  • Professionals who have been allocated crisis management tasks yet have had insufficient time to devote to the subject

Day One: Evaluate, Mitigate and Responding to Challenges

• • Understanding Strategic Crisis Management
  • Consider the complete range of risks to your organisation
  • CMT and ERT - Roles & Responsibilities
  • Issues management, master this before it becomes a Crisis
  • Who else inside and outside the organisation should be involved?
  • Five deadly Leadership behaviours & Six winning strategies
  • Understanding 'denial-curve' and 'group-think' syndromes

Day Two - Planning & Security, who and what else should be considered?

• • Security Management & Asset Protection
  • Case Studies, why some companies fail, and others survive?
  • Based on the previous module, self-evaluation questionnaire
  • Developing, improving & implementing Emergency Response Plans
  • Business Continuity Management (BCM) Strategies
  • Case Study and Workshop

Day Three - Crisis Communications & Incident On-Scene Management

• • Incident Command Systems (ICS)
  • On Scene Crisis Management, essential elements for success
  • Emergency Communication Centres, avoiding the ten most common mistakes
  • Reputation Management - Managing Social Media.
  • Press Conference & step by step guidance on how to conduct TV interviews
  • Case Study
  • Exercise: Crisis Communications Strategy

Day Four – The Human Factor - What Can Go Right and What can go Wrong

• • Alerting and Warning
  • Evacuation Strategies
  • Major Incident Simulation - Role Playing Workshop
  • Psychological & Welfare concerns in Crisis Management
  • How to improve staff morale and confidence in the process
  • Questionnaire, are your batteries in good condition?
  • Corporate Case Study – when the board get it wrong

Day Five – Crisis Management Plan Testing, Training and Exercising

• • Case Studies x 3 with the same root cause, are we learning?
  • Exercises: a programme of learning and of validating plans and procedures;
  • How to get advantageous results from an exercise
  • Post Incident evaluations, de-briefing skills, managing hot & cold de-briefs
  • Critique report writing, executive summaries and key recommendations
  • Closing the loop. Implementing recommendations, continuing the process

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.