COVID-19 Response and Recovery Planning

The government-enforced closures and social distancing measures introduced to combat the COVID-19 crisis have revealed risks and weaknesses for which many organizations were ill prepared. Some have faced financial ruin. Others resuming their operations will face significant and disruptive changes. Are you ready?

In this course, you will apply a structured planning framework to help your organization manage its COVID response and the post-COVID restart and to better prepare the organization to weather future disruptions.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will gain practical skills to:

Apply a structured process to plan and manage the enterprise response to COVID-19 and post-COVID recovery
Utilize tools and techniques to develop, monitor and assess components of the response and recovery program
Develop a clear recovery program mission statement
Use the enterprise portfolio as the basis for developing the scope of work required to respond to COVID-19
Perform a top-level risk assessment and generate a risk profile chart to prioritize the enterprise response and recovery program elements
Organize an effective program execution team
Assess both hard and soft program risks

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is appropriate for those who have a role in planning, developing, executing or monitoring an organization’s COVID-19 response and recovery program. It can also be useful for those planning to launch new business initiatives during this trying situation.

PREREQUISITE

There is no prerequisite for this course. It functions as a stand-alone course.

MATERIALS

Participants are encouraged to start the course by downloading and printing the course workbook (containing copies of presentation materials, a case study, exercises, worksheets and forms) and downloading the risk profile calculation spreadsheet.