As part of the Business Continuity Awareness Week, ContinuitySA are hosting a breakfast session entitled “Taming the pythons and the cobras – a case study-based approach to avoiding a corporate crisis, and getting out of one as quickly as possible if a crisis strikes.”

During this 90 minute multimedia session the most common sources of corporate crises will be explored and why they are more likely to be slow-creep issues like pythons. Issues addressed will included:

  • the real costs of getting it wrong and why best practice crisis communications is often counter-intuitive for corporate leadership;
  • balancing legal and public relations counsel;
  • stress-tested, practical guidelines for building, sustaining and defending your most valuable strategic asset – your reputation – when the media, activists, customers, the regulators and your own employees are banging at your door.

The talk will take place on Tuesday 18th March 2014, from 08:30 to 10:30 in Johannesburg. For more information please email [email protected] or Click Here to Register.

Guest speaker Alan Argyle is a former senior journalist, communications manager for BMW South Africa, and managing director at a New York-listed advisory firm. During his 30 years in the communications industry he has provided strategic communication services to half the JSE Top 40 companies and more than 18 national government departments, with a specialist focus on reputation management.

Alan has provided hands-on counsel for 120 real-life reputational crises – ranging from South Africa’s worst engineering disaster and global product quality issues, to corporate governance scandals and the world’s longest-running consumer boycott. Together with global advisory and business continuity firms he has facilitated the reputation management elements on dozens of enterprise-wide crisis simulations. Alan has authored the crisis management guidelines for several national government institutions, Blue Chip-listed corporates and leading higher education institutions in South Africa, and for the past eight years has delivered an annual reputation management session as part of the executive development programme at the Wits Business School.

His distinctive case study and storytelling approach to crisis communication learning and development sessions have seen Alan deliver more than 700 reputation management-related presentations across the continent.

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Guest speaker Alan Argyle

This is part of our awareness campaigns for Business Continuity Awareness Week 2014 (BCAW2014) which takes place from the 17th to 21st March 2014. BCAW is a global educational event designed to help people understand more about business continuity management (BCM), its applications and benefits. The theme for this year is Counting the Cost and is designed to demonstrate the potential cost of having an effective business continuity management system in place.

In addition to this breakfast event ContinuitySA have also scheduled four webinars which are showcased below. To join in the discussions click on the “click here” sections to register.

Live Webinar: Gaining efficiency and saving costs through ICT Continuity
When: Monday 17th March 2014 at 10:00
Presented by: Jaun Harmse, Senior BCM Advisor
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Live Webinar: Unpacking short term insurance for better continuity
When: Wednesday 19th March 2014 at 12:00
Presented by: Tracey Linnell and Jaun Harmse
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Live Webinar: Counting the cost of poor communication in a crisis
When: Tuesday 18th March 2014 at 12:00
Presented by: Tracey Linnell, GM: Advisory Services
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Live Webinar: Do you understand your outsourced BC Reliance?
When: Thursday 20th March 2014 at 10:00
Presented by: Peter Westcott, Senior BCM Advisory
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