Organisational Resilience

Organisational Resilience is the ability to anticipate, avoid, protect, withstand, mitigate, respond and recover from the effects of change or adversity whether natural or man-made. It is the capacity of an organisation to plan for and adapt to change, or disruption.

Organisational Resilience as a corporate strategic goal therefore is crucially important, it is the organisation’s capability to anticipate key events from emerging trends, constantly adapt to change, and rapidly bounce back from disaster. This course explores these and other concepts of resilience to understand key mechanisms that organisations should develop to best cope with ongoing and continuous change and to recover from adversity. Resilient organisations are forward thinking with proactive personnel, productive businesses and learning environments, they are able to foresee relevant scenarios that may have damaging effects on the organisation’s operations. Therefore if you have, or could have, a key role to play in the resilience of your organisation, then this course is for you.

This course will feature:

• Identification & investigation of 13 indicators that assesses the Resilience of an organisation.
• How individuals in Resilient organisations are attentive & continuously search for mechanisms to improve the reliability of operations across the whole organisation.
• How resilient organisations believe that with purpose, whatever disaster hits them, & regardless of the harm caused, they can recover & bounce back from trauma, quickly restoring business capabilities.
• How to adopt a process approach for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, maintaining, & improving your Organisational Resilience Management System.
• Analysis of USA & Australian National Organisational Resilience Standards.

Objectives:

With a clear focus on developing confidence and leadership capabilities in organisational resilience, this programme will equip you with the necessary skills and information to give your organisation the ability to continue to function effectively in the event of business threatening events.

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

• Understand organisation’s risk, security, safety, preparedness, resilience, response, high reliability & recovery requirements.
• Design policy, objectives and controls for you to manage Change as well as Risk.
• Apply current theories, concepts, practices & innovative solutions to organisational resilience.
• Determine how to monitor & review the performance & effectiveness of your Organisational Resilience Management system.
• Apply Continual Organisational Resilient improvement based on objective measurement.