Enterprise Risk Management and Business Continuity

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Course Overview

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Business Continuity are critical components of an organisation’s strategy to manage uncertainty, ensure resilience, and safeguard long-term success. Although they are related, they focus on different aspects of risk and continuity. Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) involves identifying and managing organisational risks to support strategic objectives, while Business Continuity (BC) ensures critical operations continue during disruptions. ERM focuses on long-term risk mitigation, whereas BC deals with immediate crisis responses, helping organisations stay resilient and minimise losses.

This Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Business Continuity training course will demonstrate how to improve your knowledge and skills to become a successful ERM Expert. You will learn how to influence and oversee a vibrant ERM and Business Resilience culture. It will help you evaluate your ERM frameworks and practices. You will also understand the mechanism of resilient corporate governance & its relationship to ERM.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this “Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Business Continuity” course, delegates will be able to:

Determine and master the concepts, approaches, standards, methods and techniques for effectively implementing ERM.
Develop the necessary leadership skills to communicate your findings to all levels and all stakeholders.
Determine your organisation’s appetite and tolerance for risk.
Investigate the indicators that assess the resilience of an organisation.
Understand how ERM relates to crisis management, business continuity and business resilience.
Understand Monitoring, Review and Continuous Improvement of the Framework
Apply your invaluable and highly relevant ERM knowledge to put into practice and benefit you and your organisation immediately upon returning

Target Audience

This “Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Business Continuity” is helpful for various professionals, including:

Chief Risk Officers
Risk Managers
Managers and Directors responsible for the risk management function or process
Heads of Internal Audit
Heads of Assurance Functions
Senior Finance Professionals
Designated Incident, Emergency & Crisis Response Managers.
Line & Project Managers need to ensure that they are effectively managing risk.

Training Methodology

This highly practical and results-oriented training course is based on adult learning concept. The facilitator will give plenty of input and help participants make sense of the themes through discussion and practice. It incorporates short inspiring demonstrations, role play and practice to enhance learning. There will be ample time for Q&A and discussions on ‘return to work’ action planning. The program will reinforce key concepts within an inspiring and engaging learning environment.

Pre & Post course assessments will be used to measure the effectiveness of this training and measure the skill and ability of participants.

Course Contents

Module 1 - Principles of Enterprise Risk Management

Key Topics

Governance and Leadership Commitment
Holistic Risk Management
Risk Identification, Risk Assessment and Evaluation
Integration with Strategy and Decision-Making
Stakeholder Engagement
Risk Culture and Communication
Resilience and Adaptability

Module 2 - ISO 31004 – Designing the Framework for Managing ERM

Key Topics

ERM framework and process.
ERM responsibilities – who does what, who is on the team.
ERM accountabilities and performance measures.
Compare Your current ERM to ISO31000:2009 principles.
Alignment between ERM policy and the organisation.
Risk attitude: pursue, retain or avoid with respect to risk appetite and tolerance.
Options for risk criteria, assessment, identification, analysis and evaluation.

Module 3 - Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS)

Key Topics

Fundamental principles of Business Continuity Management.
Implementation of a BCMS in accordance with ISO 22301 & 27031.
Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Risk Assessment.
To understand the relationship between BCMS and compliance with the other ERM requirements, including supply chain strategies.
Writing a business case and a project plan for implementing a BCMS.
Incident and emergency response management

Module 4 - Implementing Effective Enterprise Risk Management

Key Topics

Resources and methodologies to implement The Plan.
Ensuring ERM becomes part of significant decision-making.
What are the likely barriers to implementation (risk culture)?
Risk reporting & the limitations of various risk reporting tools & methodologies.
Assess the merits of quantitative risk modelling & qualitative reporting.
Align your risk reporting processes with other strategically important management activities

Module 5 - Monitoring, Review and Continuous Improvement of the Framework

Key Topics

Key risk indicators (KRI’s).
Continuous improvements, running your own team-based risk workshops.
Collate risk and control information from multiple sources into a central risk register or inventory of risk information system.
Controls register or inventory of controls.

Classroom Session

Dubai

16 - 20 Nov 2026

$5,600

Abuja

07 - 11 Dec 2026

$5,600

Dubai

25 - 29 Jan 2027

$5,600

Nairobi

12 - 16 Apr 2027

$5,600

Dubai

14 - 18 Jun 2027

$5,600

London

09 - 13 Aug 2027

$5,950

Cairo

06 - 10 Sep 2027

$5,600

Vienna

11 - 15 Oct 2027

$5,950

Dubai

08 - 12 Nov 2027

$5,600

Abuja

06 - 10 Dec 2027

$5,600

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Online Session

Duration: 2 Hrs X 8 Days

Starting Date

26-Oct-2026

$3,000

Starting Date

15-Dec-2026

$3,000

Starting Date

26-Jan-2027

$3,500

Starting Date

24-May-2027

$3,500

Starting Date

07-Sep-2027

$3,500

Starting Date

06-Dec-2027

$3,500

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Certificate

Upon successful completion of this training, participants will receive a PROMISE Certificate of Completion.

Certificate

Upon successful completion of this training, participants will receive a PROMISE Certificate of Completion.

This Program has been approved for 25.00 HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR , aPHRi , PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi and SPHRi recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®)

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