The Crisis Management Seminar (CMS) is a 3-day leadership-oriented course which provides participants with the knowledge, skills and abilities to develop a competent security and crisis management program for their organization. Recommended attendees include security and crisis managers, risk managers, member care personnel, human resources personnel, operational leaders, and any person who may serve on a crisis management team.
In the CMS, participants are trained on how to serve on a crisis management team in the most complex and critical events. Case studies and table-top exercises are used extensively.
The core components of the CMS include:
- Developing sources of information
- Risk assessments*
- Organizational policy development
- Contingency planning
- Forming and leading crisis management teams
- Using a crisis management protocol
- Understanding the present-day terrorism threat
- Practical exercise
View a sample seminar schedule here.
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*The Risk Assessment module includes the use of a proprietary risk assessment tool called EZRA, which is provided at no charge to course participants. EZRA is only functional on PCs or on Mac computers that have compatible software such as Parallels or VMWare.