Description

A focused course, tailored for you

The Continuity Manager's Course on Building Resilience When the Next Crisis Looms

Transform scattered recovery plans into a single, audit-ready continuity suite that protects your operation and your career.

Stop rebuilding the recovery register every month while senior leadership doubts your continuity readiness.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

Your quarterly continuity review is a patchwork of Word files, scattered spreadsheet logs, and email threads that never sync. The risk register lives in a shared drive, the recovery test schedule is a calendar invite, and senior leadership keeps asking for a single source of truth before the upcoming regulator deadline. When a real incident hits, the team scrambles to locate the right run-book, and the audit committee flags the missing evidence as a critical weakness.

The current tooling forces you to chase down the latest version of the business impact analysis, while the IT team complains they never see the recovery priority list. Every missed SLA triggers a notification to the CFO, yet you cannot prove which processes are truly critical because the documentation is out of date. The stakes are a potential regulatory fine and a credibility hit that could jeopardize your budget for the next year.

What you walk away with

A consolidated Business Continuity Register that maps every critical process to recovery time objectives.
A ready-to-present Continuity Dashboard that shows recovery status in real time to executives.
A fully populated Incident Response Playbook with step-by-step actions for the top five scenarios.
A test schedule that automates reminders and logs results without manual tracking.
A compliance evidence pack that satisfies the next regulator audit in a single submission.

The 12 modules

Module 1. Mapping Critical Processes

70 % of organizations fail to link processes to recovery targets, leaving leadership blind. In the Monday strategy call you notice the CFO asking which services drive revenue. This module walks through extracting process data from ERP logs and aligning each to a recovery time objective. The deliverable is a populated Critical Process Register ready for executive review.

Module 2. Designing the Impact Analysis

During the mid-week impact review you realize the current BIA spreadsheet omits downstream dependencies. By walking through a real-world scenario of a data center outage, you build a layered impact matrix that captures financial, regulatory, and reputational effects. Output: a completed Impact Analysis worksheet that quantifies losses for each tier.

Module 3. Creating the Recovery Playbook

A recent internal audit highlighted that no playbook exists for a ransomware event. The module guides you through drafting a step-by-step response guide, embedding contact lists, escalation paths, and technical checklists. What you ship from this module: a formatted Incident Response Playbook that can be printed or shared digitally.

Module 4. Building the Test Schedule

The quarterly test calendar is a static Outlook invite that never updates. In a scenario where the audit team requests proof of recent drills, you set up an automated schedule that triggers reminders, captures results, and logs them in a central register. Sitting at the end of this module: a live Test Schedule dashboard that shows upcoming and completed exercises.

Module 5. Developing the Continuity Dashboard

Stakeholders complain they cannot see recovery status at a glance. By the end of the week’s governance meeting you assemble a visual dashboard that pulls data from the register, test logs, and playbook completion rates. The deliverable is a Continuity Dashboard that updates automatically and can be presented to the board each month.

Module 6. Assembling the Evidence Pack

The regulator’s questionnaire asks for a single evidence pack, but you currently send three separate files. This module consolidates the register, impact analysis, playbook, and test logs into a packaged PDF bundle with a contents index. By module end the evidence pack sits in your drive ready for submission.

Module 7. Automating Communication Flows

During the crisis simulation the team struggled to locate the latest stakeholder communication template. You create a set of pre-approved email and SMS templates linked to the playbook steps, and embed them in a shared library. Output: a communications toolkit that can be triggered instantly during an incident.

Module 8. Integrating with Finance Reporting

The CFO demands quarterly recovery cost forecasts but receives ad-hoc spreadsheets. By mapping recovery time objectives to financial impact tiers, you generate a cost-impact model that feeds directly into the finance forecast worksheet. What you ship from this module: a financial impact model that aligns continuity with budgeting cycles.

Module 9. Running a Tabletop Exercise

A senior executive asks for a live demonstration of the continuity plan before the board meeting. This module walks you through facilitating a realistic tabletop scenario, capturing decisions, and updating the playbook with lessons learned. The deliverable is a documented Exercise Report that proves readiness to senior leadership.

Module 10. Preparing for the Regulator Visit

The regulator’s compliance officer will arrive next month and expects a concise briefing. You craft a one-page executive summary that pulls key metrics from the dashboard, register, and test results. Output: an audit briefing packet that answers every regulator question in under five minutes.

Module 11. Embedding Continuous Improvement

After each drill the team notes gaps but never tracks them. This module introduces a simple improvement log that links identified gaps to remediation owners and deadlines, automatically feeding into the next test cycle. By module end the improvement log sits in your drive and drives the next quarterly plan.

Module 12. Reporting to the Board

The board meeting agenda includes a continuity update, but past presentations have been data-heavy and vague. You build a concise board slide deck that highlights risk exposure, recovery readiness scores, and upcoming initiatives, all sourced from the dashboard. The deliverable is a polished Board Presentation ready for the next governance session.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

Module 1 covers Mapping Critical Processes , exactly the gap you hit when the CFO asks for revenue-linked recovery targets.

Module 5 covers Building the Continuity Dashboard , the visual you need when executives ask for a single-click status view.

Module 8 covers Integrating with Finance Reporting , the model that solves the CFO’s quarterly cost-impact request.

What you get with this course

A populated Critical Process Register with 30 entries.
A completed Business Impact Analysis worksheet.
A formatted Incident Response Playbook.
An automated Test Schedule dashboard.
A live Continuity Dashboard template.
A single-file Evidence Pack ready for regulator submission.
A communications toolkit with pre-approved email and SMS templates.
A financial impact model linked to recovery objectives.
A documented Tabletop Exercise Report.
An audit briefing packet for regulator visits.
An improvement log for continuous updates.
A board-ready presentation deck.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Day 1: tailored playbook in hand, Critical Process Register pre-populated for your environment, and an intake form ready for the next request.

Week 1: first version of the Continuity Dashboard live and shared with the finance lead, plus the initial evidence pack assembled.

Month 1: recurring governance cycle running from the new register with zero manual reconciliation, and a board-ready presentation prepared.

Before and after

Before

You currently maintain separate Word files for the BIA, a scattered spreadsheet for recovery times, and email threads for test results. Evidence lives in personal drives, making it impossible to pull a single package for the regulator. When the audit deadline approaches, the team loses hours reconciling versions and leadership questions the credibility of the continuity program.

After

After the course you have a unified Continuity Register, a real-time dashboard, and a ready-to-submit evidence pack. Weekly governance meetings run on a single source of truth, and senior leadership can point to documented recovery readiness. The regulator receives a concise briefing, and you have a repeatable process for future updates.

What happens if you do not address this

If you ignore this gap, the next regulator visit will flag missing evidence and trigger a compliance notice. The board will question the continuity budget during the Q3 review, and you may lose credibility and resources.

Who it is for

A continuity manager who spends most of the week coordinating tabletop exercises, updating the business impact analysis, and fielding requests from auditors and finance for a clean evidence pack. You juggle multiple spreadsheets, run weekly status calls, and need a repeatable method to turn chaotic artefacts into a polished, leadership-ready package.

Who this is NOT for. This is not for someone who needs a basic introduction to business continuity concepts.

How it arrives

Within 24 hours of purchase your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it. The playbook is hand-built around your specific situation, not LLM-generated boilerplate.

Time investment. 6 hours of focused work spread over a week, saving an estimated 40-60 hours of internal scaffolding effort.

Why $199 is the right number

A half-day consultant would charge $2,500 for the same scope, a generic compliance certification runs $1,200, and building the artefacts yourself can consume 60+ hours of work. At $199 you get the same outcomes plus a custom playbook that accelerates delivery.

FAQ

Do I need prior ISO 22301 certification to take this course?

No, the course assumes basic familiarity and walks you through practical implementation steps.

Will the artefacts work with our existing ERP and ticketing tools?

The templates are format-agnostic and can be imported into any system you already use.

How long will I have access to the learning environment?

You get unlimited access for 12 months, so you can revisit modules as needed.

Is there any support if I get stuck on a module?

Each module includes a troubleshooting guide and a FAQ that addresses common roadblocks.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.