In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses a typical week at Bryghtpath. Bryan provides a detailed look into his day-to-day and how he leads our team at Bryghtpath by delivering value to our clients every single day. Related Episodes & Blog Posts Blog Post: How to …

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In the event of a significant disruption to your organization, how will your company respond? No one enjoys thinking about crisis management, business continuity, disaster recovery, or reputation management. But this much is certain: your business will face unexpected disruptions. Understanding how your program and capabilities stack up is the first step to being able to mature your program …

In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses the workplace of the future and how it impacts Business Continuity.  Bryan explores how the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated many of the trends we are seeing in the changing work environment today. Related Episodes & Blog Posts Blog Post: …

In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses trends in business continuity and crisis management for 2022. Bryan discusses what we’re learning from our work with clients, discussions across the industry, and from our own research. Related Episodes & Blog Posts Blog Post: Engaging Your Remote Workforce …

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In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses supply chain resiliency. What lessons do we need to mind in order to avert the next supply chain crisis? Related Episodes & Blog Posts Blog Post: Your Supply Chain May Not Be As Resilient as You Think Blog Posts: …

In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses how coaching can help you as a business continuity and crisis management leader.

Topics discussed include how coaching can help clear your business continuity and crisis management program roadblocks, how a coaching program works, and some factors you should consider in choosing a coach.

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Episode Transcript

Hello, and Welcome to the Managing Uncertainty Podcast. This is Bryan Strawser, Principal & Chief Executive here at Bryghtpath. And in this week’s episode, I’d like to talk about how coaching can help you as a business continuity and crisis management leader. I’m often talking with folks who are suffering from this challenge that they’re working harder than ever, but not making forward progress on their continuity and crisis management objectives. They’ve read all the books and they’ve listened to all the podcasts, but they’re so at a loss on where to even begin, or maybe fear and doubt and uncertainty are keeping them from taking the right actions. Whether you’re looking to level up or just get back on track, I have found that one-on-one coaching can be the just-in-time tailored solution that our clients need to get unstuck, gain clarity and take their next best step.

So here are five ways that coaching can help clear your business continuity and crisis management program roadblocks and what you can expect. The first is I want to talk about the benefits of coaching. The first is having an outsider’s perspective. I always use the example that many of us are familiar with, ambiguous images. There’s the picture of one where there’s a duck, that when you turn it on the end, it looks like a rabbit, and you may first see it’s a duck, or you might first see it’s a rabbit. But after being told about the other answer, you can see both of those things clearly.

In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses the top 4 Business Disruptions that you should be preparing for in 2022.

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Episode Transcript

Hello and Welcome to the Managing Uncertainty podcast. This is Brian Strawser, Principal and Chief Executive here at Bryghtpath. And we’re well into 2022 at this point, and I want to talk about four top business disruptions that you should be planning for as 2022 evolves.

As we saw in the last half of 2021, there’s been a resurgence in economic activity around the world due to monetary and fiscal stimulus, increased consumer spending, increased confidence, but supply chain challenges, rising price pressure, and lingering concerns about COVID have increased inflation. Many pundits predict that 2022 might present several disruptions that could interfere with your ability to conduct business. So here are four disruptions to plan for in 2022.

The first is the unrelenting threat of COVID-19. Experts predict that the pandemic will persist for longer than we expect it. Even though there’s improved awareness and vaccines that are now available, the threat is still high due to low vaccination rates globally. With the emergence of new strains of the virus, the latest being Omicron, and higher caseloads even in industrialized countries, there’s no sign the situation will improve in 2022. Reports indicate that new strains may be more transmissible and more resistant to treatment. With highly dysfunctional health challenges as observed at the height of COVID-19, there’s a lot of uncertainty about how the situation will unfold this year.

There’s also uncertainty concerning the vaccine’s effectiveness in dealing with new, emerging variants. Even though we may not witness new lockdowns or stay-at-home orders, the disruptions caused by the pandemic will persist due to restricted movement and delayed return to work by employees. But this interference may not as be as severe as we previously witnessed. That’s because many foreign trade partners have also recorded a significant number of vaccinations and may not need to resort to lockdowns or travel restrictions. It’s advisable, as you plan, to imagine the worst-case scenarios. It’s better to be overprepared in the case of COVID than to be caught flat-footed when interferences with your business continuity plans and scenarios soar.

The second challenge facing us this year, supply chain disruptions. There’s a lot of

In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses how to craft a crisis management framework for your organization.

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Episode Transcript

Hello, and Welcome to The Managing Uncertainty Podcast. This is Bryan Strawser, Principal and Chief Executive here at Bryghtpath. And in this week’s episode, I’d like to talk about how to craft your crisis management framework. Now, you’ve probably heard from us and everyone else that every organization should develop and continually revise a crisis management plan which should then be exercised regularly. Why? Well, because listing procedures and blindly walking through them are only going to get you so far. To benefit you really need to get into your organization’s DNA and your approach to managing a crisis. So I want to explain why I think you need to bother about this and to do so, we need to talk about your crisis management framework. The goal of this, as you build your crisis management tools is that you need an underlying philosophy, a framework that will make all of your crisis management parts work together. A consistent framework across your company describes how you will make communicate and execute decisions when it matters in a crisis.

Think about your governing approach now, because a crisis is no time for confusion or making things up on the spot. Crisis management aims to plan for an effective, coordinated response with the resources available and the resources that you have and internal and external communication requirements before and after the crisis. Everybody, teams, and the top leadership of your company need to know what to do, or they will make mistakes that make matters worse in the moment. An established crisis management framework ensures that your executives can expect a consistent process and consistent communication no matter the crisis, should that crisis morph and pull in others and additional teams, then everyone still approaches crisis management from the same starting point with the same goals and the same shared expectations. Let’s start with the basics. To start building your framework, you need to your organization’s mission and vision statements. Everybody in your company and your organization needs these values as the foundation for all of your crisis management activity.

The first is when is it a crisis? A primary consideration is what constitutes a crisis and who declares it. Crises often start as a minor problem in one functional area. Often functional groups can contain and solve those issues before they can expand. If not, a crisis team might step in and they may solve the problem. Usually, your executives are not involved in these localized events, but this depends a lot on just how your company’s structured. If units can’t contain an issue, then they escalate, but you need to decide beforehand what th