Lead with Confidence: Crisis Management

Learn how to ensure your organization is ready to manage any type of crisis.

To begin this course, you will learn how to put the right people in place with a crisis management team and effectively train and manage a crisis. You will learn to identify and assess risks, develop a response process, and gather appropriate resources. This includes creating a crisis management plan and intervention strategies for unexpected events. You will also learn how to respond to, document, and investigate emergencies; establish an emergency operations center; create a continuity plan for pre and post-crisis, and recover from such events.

How you manage a crisis is important to the long-term sustainability or profitability of your organization/company. You will develop, strategies to mitigate risk and help manage extraordinary circumstances.

Audience

Coordinator, Manager, Supervisor, Consultant, Principal, Vice-Principal, Department Head, Board Members, Superintendent, Director, Team Leaders, Communications, Public Relations

Course Objectives

• Assign people to an appropriate crisis team role
• Conduct a crisis audit
• Establish the means for business continuity
• Determine how to manage incidents
• Help your team recover from a crisis
• Apply the process in a practical exercise

Easy to use online platform

• Once you’ve paid for your course, an email is sent to your inbox with a link to log on.
• Click on your link to start the course.
• The first time you log into the course, we suggest that you add the course link to your bookmarks/favourites.

 Self-paced e-course

• What you get from the course will depend on how much time you have to invest.
• If you skim through the activities the course will take the minimal amount of time.
• If you complete each activity in detail, watch all related videos and read the recommended resources and books, the course will take longer to complete.

Study Guide

• Your course comes with a study guide to help you complete the activities.
• Download this from within the course, a link appears in the Getting Started slide.
• Work in your guide online or print and document your work on paper.

Course structure

• The a2z e-learn course is divided into brief modules focusing on targeted content. The content in broken down into a series of easy to navigate slides.
• You can see your progress in the bar that appears at the bottom of the slide.
• Some slides have external links to videos and resources while others have content directly on the slide.
• Your study guide follows the course order.

Mobile friendly 

You can take your course with you wherever you go! Work from your computer, tablet or phone.

Pre and post course assessments

Assess your learning as you start and finish the course.

Personal action plan

In your study guide you have the opportunity to develop an Action Plan that will help you bring what you’ve learned in the course, into your workplace or business.

Recommended reading list

A list of resources is available to you in order to delve deeper into the course content.

Certificate of completion

• Proof that you have taken and completed the course.
• The certificate is downloadable at the end of your course.

Course time limit

• Once you have paid for your course you have six months to complete it.
• If you do not complete the course, your access will be closed and you will need to re-register.