Crisis Management & Business Continuity for Leaders

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•What is Crisis Management

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Case Studies of Excellence in Crisis Management

• Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol Crisis (1982) Crisis

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Case Studies of Excellence in Crisis Management

•Pepsi’s Syringe Crisis (1993)

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Case Studies of Excellence in Crisis Management

•KFC’s Chicken Shortage in the UK (2018)

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•What is Business Continuity Planning?

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•What is Business Continuity Planning and how is it related to Crisis Management

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•Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Framework

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•BCP Template

? Download the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Builder Toolkit

This lecture includes a practical Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Builder Toolkit that helps you convert the concepts taught in this lecture into a real, usable continuity plan.

Using the toolkit, you will be able to:

✅ Create a complete Business Continuity Plan (BCP)

✅ Define business continuity objectives and priorities

✅ Conduct a Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

✅ Build a Crisis Management Team structure with clear responsibilities

✅ Develop IT, workforce, and supply chain recovery strategies

✅ Create internal and external crisis communication plans

✅ Schedule continuity testing, drills, and plan reviews

✅ Maintain emergency contacts and critical business resources

The toolkit includes practical examples, templates, and planning worksheets that can be customized for your own organization, department, or business.

By the end of this lecture, you will have the foundation of a professional Business Continuity Plan that can be immediately adapted and implemented in a real-world environment.

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•How to build excellence in Crisis Management

A case study of developing Business Continuity Plan for excellence in Crisis Management

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•Identify potential crisis scenarios

Download the Crisis Scenario Register & Risk Prioritization Tool in the resources of this lecture and use it to identify, categorize, and prioritize the most important crisis risks facing your organization.

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Define crisis severity levels and response protocols

Practical Exercise: Download the Crisis Severity & Response Planning Toolkit and complete the worksheets as you progress through the lecture. By the end of the exercise, you will have a practical Crisis Severity Classification, Response Protocol, and Escalation Framework that can be adapted for use within your own organization.

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•Assign roles and responsibilities for crisis response teams

Download the Crisis Response Team & Communication Planning Toolkit and complete the worksheets as you progress through this lecture.

By the end of the exercise, you will have:

✓ A documented Crisis Management Team structure

✓ Defined crisis leadership responsibilities

✓ Internal escalation pathways

✓ External stakeholder communication ownership

✓ A practical communication framework for crisis situations

This toolkit is designed to help you immediately apply the concepts taught in this lecture within your own organization.

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•Ensure executive buy-in and leadership support.

Download the Executive Buy-In & Crisis Governance Toolkit included with this lecture.

Use it to:

• Build a business case for crisis management initiatives

• Secure executive sponsorship and leadership support

• Assign executive ownership and accountability

• Establish governance structures and oversight

• Track crisis readiness using practical KPIs

Completing this exercise will help you translate the concepts taught in this lecture into a practical governance framework that can be adapted for use within your own organization

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•Include key decision-makers from different departments

Practical Exercise

Download the Crisis Management Team Design & Readiness Toolkit included with this lecture.

Use this toolkit to:

• Build your Crisis Management Team (CMT) structure

• Identify key decision-makers and functional representatives

• Assign primary and backup owners for critical crisis roles

• Define responsibilities and decision authority

• Establish escalation pathways and collaboration processes

• Assess your organization's crisis management readiness

By completing this exercise, you will create a practical Crisis Management Team framework that can be adapted and implemented within your own organization.

The toolkit is designed to help you move beyond theory and build a structured, cross-functional team capable of responding effectively during crisis situations.

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•Train team members in crisis response and communication.

Practical Exercise

Download the Crisis Management Team Training & Readiness Toolkit included with this lecture.

Using this toolkit, you will:

• Assess crisis response competencies across your team
• Identify training gaps and development priorities
• Plan crisis simulations and tabletop exercises
• Create crisis communication templates for key stakeholders
• Build an annual crisis training and readiness program

By completing this exercise, you will create a structured training system that helps ensure your Crisis Management Team is prepared to respond effectively when a real crisis occurs.

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•Conduct scenario-based drills to test readiness

Download the Crisis Drill Planning & Evaluation Toolkit included with this lecture. This practical resource helps you define drill objectives, build realistic crisis scenarios, create drill plans, evaluate team performance, conduct structured debriefs, and track corrective actions to continuously improve organizational crisis readiness.

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•Identifying and classifying internal and external risks

Download the Risk Audit Toolkit included in the Resources section. This practical toolkit helps you identify internal and external risks, assess likelihood and impact, prioritize risks using a Risk Assessment Matrix, and create a structured Risk Register that can be immediately applied in your organization

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•Prioritizing risks based on likelihood and impact

Download the Risk Prioritization & Treatment Toolkit from the Resources section. This practical toolkit helps you assess likelihood and impact, calculate risk scores, classify risks using a Risk Matrix, assign risk owners, and develop mitigation plans for Critical and High-priority risks

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•Strengthening cybersecurity defenses

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•Enhancing supply chain resilience

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•Maintaining legal and compliance standards.

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•Building strong relationships with regulators, media, and key stakeholders

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Define key messaging principles: honesty, transparency, accountability

This lecture establishes the three foundational principles of crisis communication—Honesty, Transparency, and Accountability—which will be applied throughout the communication planning tools and templates in the following lectures

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•Prepare pre-approved crisis messaging templates.

This lecture includes a practical Crisis Communication Message Builder Toolkit that helps you quickly create clear, consistent, and professional crisis communications using the framework taught in this lecture.

Using this toolkit, you will be able to:

✅ Communicate with honesty, transparency, and accountability

✅ Structure messages using the five key communication components

✅ Create stakeholder communications quickly during a crisis

✅ Maintain consistency across employees, customers, suppliers, media, and regulators

✅ Prepare pre-approved crisis messages that can be adapted to different situations

The toolkit includes a ready-to-use communication template, example wording, approval workflow, and communication planning guidance that can be customized for your organization.

By the end of this lecture, you will have a practical crisis communication template that can be used for a wide range of crisis scenarios.

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•Designate trained spokespeople for public and media interactions

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Internal Communication: Ensure employees receive timely updates

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External Communication: Use social media, press releases, and direct outreach to maintain public trust

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•Media Strategy: Be proactive with the press; avoid a defensive stance

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•Use social listening tools to track public sentiment

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•Address misinformation swiftly

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•Maintain open channels with customers and stakeholders