ETP Consulting
Business Continuity Management
Project Structure
Workshop structure
Where an individual BCM project requires it, the ETP team
will construct and facilitate a Business Continuity workshop, bringing
together key representatives from a client's organisation and drawing
out risks and control/recovery activities etc.
The structure of individual workshops will be largely dependent
on the roles and responsibilities of the participants and, from
experience will need to be sufficiently flexible to adapt to the
'personality dynamic' in the room at the time.
The primary objective of workshops is to facilitate, not to lead,
to act as a catalyst and provide the framework in which participants
can take ownership and feel responsible for the identification of
risks and recovery strategies etc. To this end we encourage participants
to 'stand-up and get involved' through the hands-on use of 'flip-charts',
pens and 'post-it' stickers etc.
Inevitably the initial stages will involve a more presentational
style, outlining the approach and fundamental principles of business
continuity management. The latter part of the day would also be
structured to allow for a period of rationalisation, consensus,
review of the workshop objectives and actions going forward. To
this extent we find the operation of 'actions' and 'issues' lists
to be beneficial, to record and assign specific actions or note
issues to be resolved outside of the workshop environment.
Preplanning is essential to the effective facilitation of these
workshop sessions in order to gain a sound understanding of key
roles and responsibilities, the nature of the primary business functions,
processes and business/commercial environment.
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