BCI Designing and Delivering Effective Exercises Course

Course Duration
2 days, live online

(Please contact us if you prefer face-to-face training.)

Course Accreditation

All students will receive an official certificate of attendance from the Business Continuity Institute (BCI). Completion of this course entitles delegates to 16 CPE/CPD credits.

Who should be interested in this course?

Business continuity and resilience professionals who are responsible for developing and delivering exercises. This course is also suitable for those professionals in related disciplines who need to learn how to effectively exercise plans.

Course Objectives

Learn how to develop and facilitate a Business Continuity and Crisis Management exercise in any format. The course is mostly practical, with participants developing and then managing an exercise, with other course participants as the team. The course follows the requirements of ISO 22301.

The objectives of this training course are to provide students with the ability to:

Select appropriate exercise aims, objectives and formats
Develop realistic and engaging scenarios
Understand how to resource and coordinate delivery
Carry out post exercise evaluations and report lessons learned

Course Description

This course provides the business continuity and resilience professional with the knowledge of how to design and develop exercises that are effective. Gaining competence to design and facilitate effective exercises is a skill to be mastered for any business continuity and resilience professional. A key part of the Validation stage of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Lifecycle, exercising the BCM program for some is the most interesting part of the job.

Exercising helps to practice what to do when things go wrong, and builds confidence and a capability for an organisation to respond more effectively, recover, and learn from a disruption. Exercises are the best way to test our systems, rehearse our plans, and a chance to safely prepare our people.

This course is based on the BCI Good Practice Guidelines, ISO 22301 and ISO 22398.

Course Methodology

The learning methodology uses a mixture of presentations, discussion, case studies, video content and interactive exercises to transform participant knowledge into hands-on practice in a safe environment.

Course Fees

The course fees include the BCI royalty fees as well as the learning material. The BCI uses data from the World Bank to determine the pricing structure. The course fees are depending on the place of residency/ company registration. Please contact us for pricing details.