Fundamentals of Risk Management and Crisis Communications

As organisations face a growing number of global and strategic challenges: the need for responsible leadership and good governance continues to rise. There is a real need to have people able to handle risk situations and manage a crisis in order to avoid damaging the business’s reputation and be prepared for all eventualities. It is inevitable that at some stage your organisation will encounter risk and crisis situations. Having robust risk and crisis plans in place is essential. Learn to prepare for a crisis: develop a crisis plan and assemble a crisis team. Improve your understanding of risk management and understand how to prepare a risk assessment of your organisation by correctly assessing and quantifying threats. You will learn how to minimise risk by reviewing current issues: trends: and risk situations. Throughout the training: there is an emphasis on the practical elements of risk analysis and crisis planning: including how and when to put your crisis plan into action and how to keep your communications strategy flexible and updated. The course is designed to give attendees real-life skills and capabilities that are immediately transferable to their workplace environment.