Business Continuity Exercising: Turning Plans into Resilience

Most organisations have business continuity plans. Far fewer know with confidence whether those plans will work when faced with a real-world crisis.

Business continuity exercises are one of the most effective ways to validate response arrangements, uncover hidden vulnerabilities and prepare teams for the challenges of managing disruptive events. Whether the threat is a cyber attack, supplier failure, operational outage, regulatory issue or reputational crisis, exercising helps organisations identify weaknesses before they become business-critical problems.

Join Phillip Knight, Senior Consultant at URM, for a practical webinar exploring how organisations can use business continuity exercising to build resilience, enhance preparedness and drive continual improvement. Drawing on extensive experience designing and facilitating business continuity and crisis management exercises across a range of sectors, Phil will share practical insights, common pitfalls and proven approaches for delivering exercises that generate real value.

In this webinar, we will explore:

• Why exercising is fundamental to organisational resilience and preparedness.
• How to select the most appropriate exercise approach for your objectives.
• Techniques for designing realistic and engaging disruption scenarios.
• Ways to involve leadership teams, suppliers and critical stakeholders effectively.
• How to facilitate exercises that encourage participation and meaningful learning.
• Best practice for evaluating outcomes and turning lessons into improvements.
• Common mistakes that reduce exercise effectiveness and how to avoid them.

Agenda

• Building confidence in your response and recovery capabilities
• Selecting the right exercise approach for your organisation
• Developing realistic scenarios that expose critical vulnerabilities
• Engaging leadership, teams, suppliers and key stakeholders
• Facilitating exercises that generate meaningful insights
• Turning lessons learned into measurable resilience improvements
• Common exercise pitfalls and how to avoid them

Who should attend?

This webinar is designed for:

• Business Continuity Managers
• Resilience and Risk Professionals
• Crisis Management Team Members
• Compliance and Governance Leads
• Operational Managers
• Information Security Professionals
• Senior Leaders with responsibility for organisational resilience

Why attend?

By the end of this session, you will have a clearer understanding of how to develop an exercise programme that moves beyond compliance requirements and delivers genuine assurance that your organisation can respond effectively when disruption occurs. You'll also gain practical ideas that can be applied immediately to improve your current exercising approach.

Whether you are developing your first exercise programme or looking to enhance an established resilience framework, this webinar will provide practical guidance you can put into action straight away.

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