Description

A focused course, tailored for you

The Continuity Manager's Course on Building a Live Recovery Plan When Quarterly Audits Reveal Gaps

Turn fragmented recovery docs into a single, auditable plan that keeps services running and leadership confident.

Stop spending Friday evenings rebuilding the same recovery register while audit reviewers keep flagging missing evidence.

$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Your team is juggling spreadsheets, email threads, and outdated runbooks to prove you can restore critical systems after an outage. The current process relies on ad-hoc updates, manual ticketing, and a patchwork of vendor contacts, which makes every test a scramble and every audit a risk. When a major incident hits, senior leaders question whether you have a repeatable, documented path to recovery, and the cost of missed SLAs threatens both budget and reputation.

The gaps surface each quarter when auditors ask for a consolidated evidence pack, but you spend days stitching together logs, screenshots, and disparate checklists. Meanwhile, the business unit heads complain that recovery drills interrupt their work and never produce measurable results. The lack of a single source of truth forces you to re-create the same artefacts for each review, draining valuable time and exposing you to compliance penalties.

What you walk away with

Produce a single, version-controlled recovery plan that passes audit without additional work.
Run quarterly recovery drills that generate complete evidence packs in under two days.
Align all critical system owners on a shared RACI matrix for recovery responsibilities.
Automate evidence collection for key controls, reducing manual effort by 70 percent.
Communicate recovery status to leadership with a ready-to-present dashboard each month.

The 12 modules

Module 1. Mapping Critical Business Functions

Identify and prioritize the services that must be restored first.

Module 2. Defining Recovery Time Objectives

Set realistic RTOs based on stakeholder impact and technical limits.

Module 3. Building a Centralized Recovery Register

Create a single source of truth for all recovery tasks and dependencies.

Module 4. Establishing Ownership with RACI Tables

Assign clear responsibilities to each team and vendor.

Module 5. Designing Step-by-Step Runbooks

Develop concise, executable procedures for each critical system.

Module 6. Automating Evidence Capture

Configure tools to collect logs, screenshots, and verification data automatically.

Module 7. Running Tabletop Drills Efficiently

Facilitate realistic simulations that produce audit-ready artefacts.

Module 8. Scoring Recovery Readiness

Apply a decision matrix to assess gaps after each drill.

Module 9. Reporting to the Audit Committee

Build a dashboard that shows compliance, risk, and drill outcomes.

Module 10. Maintaining Vendor Contracts and Contacts

Create a living contact register and SLA tracking sheet.

Module 11. Continuous Improvement Loop

Embed lessons learned into the next iteration of the plan.

Module 12. Embedding the Plan into Governance

Integrate the recovery register into existing governance cadences.

How this addresses your situation

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

Module 1 covers Mapping Critical Business Functions , exactly the inventory you struggle to compile when senior managers ask for a prioritized service list.

Module 5 covers Designing Step-by-Step Runbooks , precisely the detailed procedures you need when a drill stalls because operators lack clear instructions.

Module 7 covers Running Tabletop Drills Efficiently , the exact process you miss when quarterly simulations produce no auditable output.

What you get with this course

A populated recovery register with 30 pre-filled critical services.
A ready-to-use RACI matrix template with example roles.
Step-by-step runbook guide for the top five systems.
An automated evidence capture checklist.
A decision-matrix scoring sheet for post-drill analysis.
A monthly recovery status dashboard template.
A vendor contact register with SLA tracking fields.
A continuous-improvement logbook.
A drill agenda and debrief worksheet.
A governance integration checklist.
A pre-audit evidence pack outline.
A quick-start implementation playbook.

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

Day 1: tailored playbook in hand, recovery register template pre-populated for your environment, intake form ready for the next request.

Week 1: first version of your recovery status dashboard live and shared with the finance lead.

Month 1: monthly reporting cycle running from the new register with zero manual reconciliation.

Before and after

Before

You maintain multiple Excel files, email threads, and Word runbooks that live on personal drives. Evidence for audits is assembled from screenshots and manual logs, often missing key timestamps. When a test fails, the team spends hours reconciling conflicting documents, and leadership receives only fragmented updates, forcing repeated requests for clarification.

After

All recovery artefacts live in a single, version-controlled register. A ready-made dashboard updates automatically, providing leadership with a clear view of readiness each month. Evidence packs are generated with one click, and quarterly drills produce complete documentation, eliminating audit follow-ups and freeing time for strategic resilience work.

What happens if you do not address this

If you defer action, the next audit cycle will surface the same gaps, forcing emergency remediation under the Q3 close deadline. Leadership will question your ability to protect critical services, risking budget cuts and a stalled career progression.

Who it is for

A Continuity Manager who owns the end-to-end recovery lifecycle, runs quarterly tabletop drills, coordinates with infrastructure and application owners, and must deliver auditable evidence to the audit committee on tight timelines.

Who this is NOT for. This is not for someone who needs a 101 introduction to business continuity basics.

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 work.

Why $199 is the right number

A half-day consultant would charge $2K-$5K for the same scope, generic compliance courses run $800-$2K, and building the artefacts yourself typically consumes 60+ hours. At $199 you get a complete, ready-to-use solution that pays for itself in weeks.

FAQ

Do I need prior experience with disaster recovery frameworks?

The course assumes you already manage continuity; it adds practical tools, not theory.

Will the templates work with our existing ticketing system?

Templates are format-agnostic and can be imported into any ticketing or documentation tool.

How much time will I need each week to complete the course?

About 3 hours per week for six weeks, plus a short drill sprint.

Is the course suitable for a team that already has a draft plan?

Yes, it refines and consolidates existing artefacts into a single auditable package.

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.