Business Continuity
- 9 Courses | 3h 26m 39s
- 36 Books | 45h 9m
- 7 Audiobooks | 29h 53m 21s
Learn how to apply business continuity best practices in your organization to lead your team through unexpected business disruptions such as office or building closures, epidemic or pandemic awareness, cyber-attacks, natural disasters, or supply chain interruptions. Apply these business continuity best practices through business continuity planning (BCP) to plan and lead your team with optimized virtual collaboration, resiliency, perseverance, and techniques for adapting to change. You'll also learn how to develop and implement a plan that will address issues that go beyond the plan itself.
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Strength under Pressure: Building Perseverance and Resilience
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COURSES INCLUDED
Strength under Pressure: Building Perseverance and Resilience
The world today is dynamic, exciting, and challenging. Success depends on much more than ability, technology, and skills. Perseverance backed by resilience can be the game changer in overcoming setbacks and accomplishing tasks successfully. An adaptive mindset helps to focus through distractions and stress, while resilience provides the strength to bounce back. In this course, you will learn to develop personal resiliency, adaptability, and perseverance. You will explore the habits and resources needed to sustain perseverance. You will learn the strategies that can make perseverance a habit and ways to build resilience. You will also explore how to use your resilience to persevere in the face of setbacks and challenges.
7 videos |
24m
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Becoming a Successful Collaborator
When organizations are recruiting, one of the top skills they look for in a candidate is their ability to collaborate. Today's hiring managers know that collaboration leads to improved problem-solving, increased productivity and promotes interconnected team members who share expertise and learn from one another. Defining collaboration is tricky because it means different things across industries, departments and roles. In this course you'll learn about the meaning of collaboration, the concept of teaming in collaboration, and best practices for being a good team member and for being a successful collaborator. You'll examine conflict management styles to determine which one is yours, and the impact on your team.
6 videos |
28m
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PMI PDU
Assessing Organizational Risks
Risk is a fact of life in business, and you've got to be able to assess your organization's risks to come up with strategies to avoid or reduce the negative effects of the threats you face. In this course, you'll familiarize yourself with key risk assessment concepts such as threats, opportunities, probabilities, and impacts - a necessity before assessing any risks your business may face. You will also learn about the tools and techniques of risk and opportunity assessment, recognizing that risks can either be threats to mitigate or opportunities to exploit for organizational gain.
6 videos |
23m
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Managing Organizational Risks
Once you've identified and assessed a potential risk to your organization, the next step is to manage it appropriately. Some risks may have a higher probability of becoming a reality, while others may have a more negative or more positive impact. Your ability to detect risks will vary as well. You'll need to be prepared to manage each of these risk effects accordingly. In this course, you'll learn about risk response strategies and methods you can use to minimize organizational threats and leverage opportunities. You will also learn how you can create contingency response plans.
6 videos |
22m
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Managing in a Crisis
Effective business leadership is never more needed than during the difficult times of a company crisis. The way you handle tough conversations or deliver a difficult message can make or break the situation. It's essential to have crisis management strategies to improve outcomes. In this course, you'll discover ways of managing in a crisis, including how to manage difficult conversations and crisis communications.
7 videos |
20m
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PMI PDU
Facing Virtual Team Challenges
A virtual team can face the same difficulties as other teams, but remote teamwork also has unique challenges. In this course, you'll learn about tactics for managing teams that blend onsite and offsite members across time zones and geography. You'll be introduced to team leadership strategies for overcoming internal conflicts and handling collaboration and communication challenges. Finally, you'll learn how to evaluate and adapt your management style and approach to working on a team that is virtual.
7 videos |
18m
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PMI PDU
COVID-19: A Novel Coronavirus
Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that commonly occur in humans and animals. Most coronaviruses cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illnesses similar to the common cold and flu, and sometimes lower-respiratory tract illnesses, such as pneumonia or bronchitis. Most people will experience a type of common human coronavirus in their lifetime. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel coronavirus caused by the human body's reaction to the strain of the virus known as SARS-CoV-2. In these topics, you'll learn what COVID-19 is, who is at the highest risk of contracting it, how it's transmitted, signs and symptoms, and precautions you should take to prevent and treat it.
1 video |
26m
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Getting Started with Skype for Business
With Skype for Business, you can collaborate and hold meetings or large teleconferences. Explore the application and its interface, and discover how to add, remove, and organize contacts, and manage alerts and privacy settings.
7 videos |
37m
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Business Continuity Programs
Whether it is a natural disaster that sweeps through your city, a computer virus that destroys vital electronic information or a pandemic that limits employee mobility, businesses need to be able to recover their services and operations as soon as possible if such a disaster does occur. A Business Continuity Program involves planning the recovery of operations through business continuity planning (BCP) when confronted with adverse events such as pandemic, natural disasters, technological failures, human error, and terrorism.
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4m
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Digital badges are yours to keep, forever.BOOKS INCLUDED
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Looking for Opportunity in the Midst of CrisisIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how most crises create longer-term opportunities as well as threats because they produce rapid, sustained shifts in organizations' external and internal environments.
6m
By Michael Watkins, Michael Yaziji
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on From Risk to Resilience: Learning to Deal with DisruptionThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how organizations need to improve how they deal with unexpected disruptions to complex supply chains in order to prosper in the face of turbulent change.
12m
By Joseph Fiksel, Keely L. Croxton, Mikaella Polyviou, Timothy J. Pettit
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Designing for ResilienceThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how designing for resilience can ensure survival of critical systems in times of crisis.
2m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Cognitive Technologies Can Help Managers During the COVID-19 CrisisIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how companies that optimize how they use automation tools can relieve pressure on teams.
3m
By Frederic Laluyaux
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Corporate Sustainability at a CrossroadsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals eight critical insights that can help executives accelerate their company's contribution to our common future.
47m
By David Kiron, et al.
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Five Ways to Improve Communication in Virtual TeamsIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn that implementing simple strategies with your team will engender more effective virtual communication.
5m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Manage Risk (After Risk Management has Failed)This article from MIT Sloan Management Review suggests how the key shortcomings of traditional risk management can be addressed by adopting a more sophisticated alternative - the Bayesian approach.
13m
By Adam Borison, Gregory Hamm
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Make Your (Now Virtual) Event ShineThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review offers seven tips will help you make your online presentation interesting, interactive, and specific for your audience.
4m
By Nancy Duarte
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Vigilant Companies Gain an Edge in Turbulent TimesThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how the costs of being slow to sense threats and opportunities on the competitive horizon can be devastating.
15m
By George S. Day, Paul J.H. Schoemaker
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Leading RemotelyIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how to make the most of your distributed workforce.
6m
By Whitney Johnson
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Overcoming Remote Work ChallengesThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals how to overcome the three biggest challenges of remote work.
3m
By Josh Lowy
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Preparing for Disruptions Through Early DetectionThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how a company can substantially increase its resilience by improving its ability to detect - and respond to - disruptions quickly.
24m
By Yossi Sheffi
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Sustaining SustainabilityIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn that investing in the intangibles are what keep sustainability policies alive - and evolving.
3m
By Gregory Unruh
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The 11 Sources of Disruption Every Company Must MonitorThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that seeking out weak signals by intentionally looking through the lenses of macro change is the best possible way to make sure your organization stays ahead of the next wave of disruption.
10m
By Amy Webb
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Using Scenario Planning to Reshape StrategyThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review explains that a new approach to scenario planning can help companies reframe their long-term strategies by developing several plausible scenarios.
15m
By Alejandra Palermo, Jonas Hoffmann, Rafael Ramírez, Steve Churchhouse
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on What New Normal Should We Create?This article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals how we are living in a moment rich with opportunities to fundamentally improve how we live, how we relate to society, how we interact with government, and how we do business.
3m
By Morela Hernandez
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Ranking How National Economies Adapt to Remote WorkIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how understanding how a country's mix of occupations, technology infrastructure, and demographic characteristics have affected people's ability to work from home can help government and business leaders prepare for future disruptions.
7m
By Rodrigo Razo Solares, Sarah H. Bana, Seth G. Benzell
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Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual TeamsVirtual Leadership explores the challenges associated with working remotely, and guides you on how to lead virtual teams. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By Penny Pullan
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101 Tips for Telecommuters: Successfully Manage Your Work, Team, Technology and Family101 Tips for Telecommuters is an easy-to-use guide for successful telecommuting. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
11m
By Debra A. Dinnocenzo
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Faster Disaster Recovery: The Business Owner's Guide to Developing a Business Continuity PlanWith thought-provoking questions that enable you to explore their particular situation, this book provides a 10-step approach for business owners on creating a disaster recovery plan (from both natural and man-made events).
2h 8m
By Jennifer H. Elder, Samuel F. Elder
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Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management PlanPresenting concepts that can be applied in part, or full, to your business, regardless of its size or number of employees, this book contains time-tested strategies to protect your employees while ensuring your company survives the unimaginable.
6h 14m
By Michael Blyth
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Business Continuity Planning: A Project Management ApproachDetailing a proven plan for achieving business continuity and business preparedness, this important book includes numerous diagrams, checklists, and tools to help you determine exactly what you must do to prepare for a serious event.
4h 51m
By Gregg D. Richie, Ralph L. Kliem
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Business Continuity For DummiesIf disaster struck, could your business continue to operate? This detailed book clearly sets out how to identify the risks to your organization, how to create your own BCM plan, how to apply BCM in practice and what to do if the worst does happen.
4h 46m
By Stuart Sterling, et al.
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Business Continuity Management: Global Best Practices, Fourth EditionFrom an acclaimed founder of the profession with 30 years' experience in 60 countries, Andrew Hiles' masterwork is the closest you can get to a "Body of Knowledge" for Business Continuity, discussing what works and why. This new edition includes supply chain risk with contract advice, impact of new technologies, and how to choose/apply a wide range of global/national standards.
9h 14m
By Andrew Hiles
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Building Resilience for Success: A Resource for Managers and OrganizationsDrawing on contemporary research and professional case studies, this definitive guide examines the main sources of work related stress, and explore how personal resilience can be developed both within and outside the work context.
4h 12m
By Cary L. Cooper, Jill Flint-Taylor, Michael Pearn
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Metagility: Managing Agile Development for Competitive AdvantageThis book provides a comprehensive approach for managing a new and highly effective breed of agility from the executive level on down.
4h 32m
By David A. Bishop
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Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even DisasterA brain-training program to help you strengthen your capacities to bounce back, this book offers clear guidance to help you develop somatic, emotional, relational, and reflective intelligence - the skills you need to confidently and effectively cope with life's inevitable challenges and crises.
5h 21m
By Linda Graham
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To-Not-Do List: The Working From Home EditionRyan Tidwell, Content Marketing Specialist at Skillsoft talks about how it can be challenging to adapt to working remotely and how we can keep ourselves in check.
2m
By Ryan Tidwell
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Virtual Teams: How We Are Connecting InternallyRyan Tidwell, Content Marketing Specialist at Skillsoft discusses how we all need to pause throughout the day and have human interaction, even if it's virtual.
2m
By Ryan Tidwell
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Instant Digital: Tech Accelerates to a New Normal: Part 1Mike Hendrickson, VP, Technology & Developer Products at Skillsoft takes a look at some of the issues being brought to the forefront today because of this Instantly Digital phenomenon.
2m
By Mike Hendrickson
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Instant Digital: Tech Accelerates to a New Normal: Part 2Mike Hendrickson, VP, Technology & Developer Products at Skillsoft discusses how "Instantly Digital" has been a genuine challenge for even the most prepared organizations. But, it's opened new opportunities as well.
2m
By Mike Hendrickson
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Why Home Office Ergonomics MattersDonna McEntee, Director, EHS Compliance Products at Skillsoft talks about the necessity of creating an ergonomic workspace while working from home.
3m
By Donna McEntee
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Tips for Maintaining Balance While Working RemotelyNorm Ford, VP of Operations for Compliance Solutions at Skillsoft discusses how to eliminate stress and imbalance in our lives while working from home.
3m
By Norm Ford
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Corporate Crisis Preparedness: Critical Focus AreasA corporate crisis is impossible to predict, and the best line of defense is a good offense of planning, preparation and training for your workforce.
2m
By Skillsoft
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Have a Plan: Business Continuity During a Global CrisisNorm Ford, VP of Operations for Compliance Solutions and Donna McEntee, Workplace Safety and Health Solution Manager, both at Skillsoft discuss how a Business Continuity Plan addresses contingencies for every aspect of the business that could be affected during a global crisis.
3m
By Donna McEntee, Norm Ford
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How Legacy Businesses Can Compete in the Sharing EconomyThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals how providers of traditional products and services can participate in the sharing economy.
13m
By Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Mohan Subramaniam
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual TeamsVirtual Leadership explores the challenges associated with working remotely, and guides you on how to lead virtual teams. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
21m 3s
By Penny Pullan
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101 Tips for Telecommuters: Successfully Manage Your Work, Team, Technology and Family101 Tips for Telecommuters is an easy-to-use guide for successful telecommuting. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
20m 21s
By Debra A. Dinnocenzo
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The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote LeadershipThis audio edition shows leaders how to guide their teams by recalling the foundational principles of leadership.
4h 53m 12s
By Kevin Eikenberry, Wayne Turmel
Audiobook
Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-BeingWith powerful, time-tested exercises, this audio edition guides us in rebuilding our core well-being and disaster-proofing our brains.
12h 2m 39s
By Linda Graham
Audiobook
Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual TeamsThis audio edition identifies the challenges of virtual work and explains how to develop the facilitative leadership mindset to effectively manage people remotely.
8h 32m 55s
By Penny Pullan
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Remote: Office Not RequiredThis audio edition thoroughly explores the "work from home" phenomenon, as well as explains the challenges and unexpected benefits.
3h 22m 44s
By David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried
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The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure, and Bounce Back from SetbacksThe Resiliency Advantage discusses a five-level progression any person can follow to gain resiliency and the actions they would take to attain each level. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
20m 27s
By Al Siebert
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Business Continuity
Learn how to apply business continuity best practices in your organization to lead your team through unexpected business disruptions such as office or building closures, epidemic or pandemic awareness, cyber-attacks, natural disasters, or supply chain interruptions. Apply these business continuity best practices through business continuity planning (BCP) to plan and lead your team with optimized virtual collaboration, resiliency, perseverance, and techniques for adapting to change. You'll also learn how to develop and implement a plan that will address issues that go beyond the plan itself. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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