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Crisis Management Training
Oakwood Risk Training provides practical crisis management training for organisations that need to strengthen leadership, decision making, communication and response capability during serious incidents.
Crisis Management Training at Oakwood
Our crisis management courses are designed for senior leaders, crisis management teams, incident management teams, communications professionals, operational managers and anyone who may be involved in preparing for, responding to or recovering from a crisis.
We focus on the realities of crisis response, where information is incomplete, pressure is high, decisions have consequences and effective leadership matters.
Oakwood’s crisis management training helps organisations move beyond written procedures and develop the skills, confidence and judgement needed to respond effectively when disruption escalates into a serious incident or crisis.
Our courses are highly practical, scenario based and delivered by experienced practitioners. Learners explore crisis leadership, decision making under pressure, communication, information management, team coordination, exercising and organisational learning
The CrisisReady™ Programme
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Programme Overview
From gap analysis to training, exercising and improvement.
For organisations that want more than standalone training, Oakwood’s CrisisReady™ Programme provides a structured pathway to stronger crisis capability.
The programme is designed to help organisations move from assessment through to improved planning, training, exercising and continuous improvement. It is ideal for organisations that want a joined up approach rather than disconnected pieces of work.
What the programme includes
The CrisisReady™ Programme can include:
- Crisis capability gap analysis
- Review of existing plans, structures and response arrangements
- Crisis planning optimisation
- Clarification of roles, responsibilities and escalation arrangements
- Crisis management training for relevant teams
- Crisis leadership development
- Scenario based exercising
- Post exercise debriefing
- Improvement planning
- Ongoing support and review
Best suited to
The CrisisReady™ Programme is suitable for organisations that:
- Need to build or improve their crisis management capability
- Have plans in place but have not trained or exercised their teams
- Want a structured twelve month improvement pathway
- Need to align leadership, plans, communications and exercising
- Want fixed scope support from an experienced crisis management partner
Gold, Silver, Bronze Command Training
One Day Course
The Gold, Silver, Bronze Command Training course is designed for organisations that use, or want to introduce, a structured strategic, tactical and operational response model.
The course helps learners understand the role of each command level, how decisions should be made, how information should flow, and how teams should coordinate during an incident or crisis.
Who should attend?
This course is suitable for:
- Senior leaders
- Crisis management team members
- Incident management team members
- Operational managers
- Site managers
- Facilities and estates teams
- Security teams
- Business continuity and resilience leads
- Health and safety managers
- Communications representatives
- HR representatives
- Anyone who may form part of a Gold, Silver or Bronze response structure
Delivery Options
All courses can be delivered at Oakwood’s training centre at Hethel Engineering Centre in Norfolk or in house at the client’s location. In addition, the Awareness and Practitioner can be delivered virtually via MS Teams.
For organisations training multiple employees, in house or virtual delivery can be a cost effective way to build awareness and capability across teams, departments or sites. It also allows the course to be tailored to the client’s operating environment, premises, staff roles and specific risk profile.
Why Oakwood?
Oakwood Risk Training delivers crisis management training that is practical, realistic and grounded in operational experience.
Our trainers and consultants have backgrounds in crisis management, policing, security, business continuity, resilience and high pressure operational environments. We understand that effective crisis response depends on people, not just plans.
What makes Oakwood different?
- Practitioner led training delivered by experienced professionals
- Scenario based learning built around realistic incidents
- Practical focus on leadership, decision making and coordination
- Strong emphasis on people, behaviour and human factors
- Training that can be tailored to your organisation
- Clear progression from short courses to structured programmes and certification
- Experience supporting organisations across a range of sectors
Oakwood helps organisations build genuine crisis capability, from awareness and team training through to exercising, improvement planning and professional certification.
Find out more about the team here.