Last year we provided two free mini-training courses:

* Active Shooter 101

* Crisis Communications 101

On this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser announces the launch of two new mini-courses that round out our free mini-course offerings:

* Crisis Management 101

* Business Continuity 101

Both courses are completely free with lessons delivered via e-mail each day.

We hope you enjoy them!

Episode Transcript

Bryan Strawser:            Everyone, it’s Bryan Strawser here from Bryghtpath. It’s kind of weird for me.

I’m recording by myself for the first time in nearly a year. My normal podcasting partner, Jennifer, here at the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, is on vacation, having camping nights with the best camper accessories and visiting cliffs in the north of Ireland. She is running around and enjoying the many fun things to do in Ireland, like visiting the stunning Cliffs of Moher in County Clare. So far, I’ve received many beautiful pictures of the nature and views and beers in Ireland.

She will then go south to the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, with her husband on a motorcycle trip. Probably one of the coolest vacations that I’ve heard of. Although the photos I’ve seen so far have mostly involved wine and some really nice looking steak.

But I’m recording today by myself and I want to talk a little bit about two major announcements that we just made this week here at Bryghtpath.

The first one is we have launched a new Business Continuity 101 mini-course. Our mini-courses, some of you might remember, are completely free. They’re email based courses, meaning that you signup on line. You enter your email and we send you a new lesson every day for a period of time.

The Business Continuity course has seven lessons, comprehensive lessons and they’re really aimed at helping you develop strategies to build a more resilient organization. Our mini-courses do a pretty good job of explaining the basics around a topic and then giving you, more and more expertise, more in depth knowledge of that topic over the course of five to 15 days depending upon the course.

The Business Continuity 101 course is seven days long, seven lessons long. They’ll take you about five or 10 minutes at a time to read. We aimed these really so that you would have time to make a cup of coffee or tea or get a drink of water and then sit down and read through the lesson. We always encourage folks to take the time to write some notes as they read through it and think about how can I really apply some of these lessons to what I’m doing day to day.

One course really gets into that whole idea of business continuity, walks you through what it is. How to … Comes to a business continuity program and then really talks about how do you … What are some things you should think about when it comes to your program in terms of choosing a consultant to work with. If that’s something that you need, or you need expertise, we really give you the hints and the tricks to look at to really evaluate a consultant’s or a consulting company’s experiences and their services and how you can bring them to the table to really come to bat for your team within your organization.

Again, this is the Business Continuity 101 mini-course. It is completely free. You can access it right not at Bryghtpath.com/bc101. That’s Bryghtpath.com slash, the letter B, the letter C, 101.

The second course that we’re announcing, we announced this week,