Lead Resilience With Insight: Education Month Comes to a Close
The BCI’s education month, the Institute’s annual global celebration of learning, development, and connection in the profession, has wrapped up with a look at leadership.
The content for the week was aimed at practitioners ready to move from applying good practice to shaping it, and for those experienced practitioners ready for strategic leadership using the route to MBCI and the FBCI was also covered.
Highlights
The week covered several leadership areas. In ‘Board Oversight for Organizational Resilience’ today’s challenging corporate environment, with its ever-increasing risks and threats were analysed. These can impact the very survival of an organization, and the list of potential threat is long: geopolitical tensions, trade restrictions, cyber threats, recurring supply chain disruptions, and more. The role of boards to address the risks and build timely and adequate safeguards, alongside leadership that fosters effective oversight that enhances organizational resilience is therefore vital. The aim of the session was to make risk handling, crisis handling capability, the ability to conduct minimum critical business, and effectively managing stakeholder concerns achievable.
Taking a look at the personal level was ‘When Continuity Becomes Human: Designing People-Centered BCM Programs.’ This session explored how people-related dependencies can be built into BCM program design, governance, and review cycles so that resilience becomes operational, not theoretical.
The importance of effective and clear communication was also analysed. In the presentation ‘Why Senior BC Leaders Conflate Risk, Crisis, and Emergency Communication - and What It Costs Them’ there was a clear warning that most business continuity plans use "communication" as a single line item, as if risk communication, crisis communication, and emergency communication were one skill wearing three hats. The event showed that each operates on a different timeline, answers to a different kind of uncertainty, and fails in a different way when treated like the others.
The week was rounded out with useful insight from the BCI’s research programme. Two ‘Lunch and learn’ sessions were run, which delved deeper into recent BCI research: The Vision 2030 report and the Horizon Scan report.
Did you miss anything?
The month’s overall theme was ‘One profession. Three stages. Your pathway’. The programme was designed to look at roads that a career in business continuity and resilience can follow.
This month was deliberately centred on personalising career paths, showing that the BCI Learning Pathway is a clear, stage-by-stage route through an individual’s professional development in business continuity and resilience. It can take you from your first qualification, to advancing your practice, and on to becoming a leader at the highest level of the profession.
The month has followed that path, with week one covering building strong foundations in good practice, week two looking at the practical aspects of applying good practice with confidence, and as already discussed, this third week giving insights into leadership.
If you missed anything, don’t forget that with a BCI web account you can review the webinar recordings at your leisure.
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