Leadership and Planning

September 20, 2012 By MRD Leave a Comment

Leadership and Planning

All businesses and their activities involve planning to provide structure and direction, as well as management and leadership to ensure success. Effective planning processes and dynamic leadership set businesses apart in today’s competitive market place. MRD and our partners have extensive experience in leadership and planning, the assessment of planning and management systems and practices.

MRD’s experience base incldues the planning and successful conduct of high risk special operations missions as well as high impact business planning. MRD’s leadership credentials are also extensive with experience in Special Operations, senior management within corporate and commercial environments and within the public sector.

We know that effective planning and dynamic leadership will result in:

The identification of opportunities and threats
Structured processes that are easy to follow, maintain and adjust
Effective allocation of resources
The ability to change direction or act quickly to take advantage of new opportunities
A sense of empowerment, belonging and ownership throughout the organisation
A stronger and more resilient position in the marketplace

MRD can help facilitate this through:

Operational and developmental planning and advice
Education and training to leaders and managers in planning and processes
Diagnostic reviews to increase effectiveness and efficiency
Scenario based leadership training
Group or individual leadership experiences

For more information on how you can enhance your business leadership and planning, Contact Us for a free consultation to discuss options.

Filed Under: Business Planning, E Learning, Education, International, Leadership, Security Tagged With: business, education, evaluation, leadership, operations, planning, special operations, training

Business Resilience Continuum – Crisis, Emergency Management and Business Continuity

September 20, 2012 By MRD Leave a Comment

Business Resilience Continuum – Crisis, Emergency Management and Business Continuity

At some point in their life cycles all businesses will face emergency and crisis situations and events. If businesses are underprepared or respond ineffectively to such events the net affect could result in significant loss and irrepairable damage to the business.Effective planning and response will allow a business not only to survive such and event, but return to normal business operation as quickly as possible whilst minimizing loss and damage. At MRD we help business ensure that such events are not only adequately prepared for, but indentified and responded to early to maximize the likelihood of event avoidance.

MRD sees the Business Resilience Continuum as the overarching system that includes the disciplines of Incident Management, Emergency Management, Crisis Management, and Business Continuity and Recovery. This requires a systems based approach as each element cannot be treated in isolation or full recovery is unlikely to be achieved.

The objectives of a truly systems based approach are:

Effective monitoring of events and triggers
Effective planning and preparation for events
Well written and appropriate plans and procedures that are effectively communicated and fully understood
A full understanding of event processes as well as response management and leadership
The ability to successfully transition from reponse to continuity and recovery phases in order to achieve resumption of normal business operations as soon as possible
Mitigation and reduction of loss or damage to people, environment, assets, reputation and livelihood

As a result of extensive experience in the design, development and implementation of Business Continuity and Management based systems, MRD is able to help businesses achieve true business resilience through:

Diagnostic reviews to assess resilience threats and system requirements
Development and implementation of effective monitoring systems
Systematic planning and preparation for event avoidance, response and recovery
Stakeholder education and training to include response and management teams
Development and implementation of effective plans and procedures
Event simulation and real time advice

For more information on how you can make your business and leadership more resilient, Contact Us for a free consultation to discuss crisis, emergency and business continuity.

Filed Under: Business Consulting, Business Innovation, Change Management, Crisis Leadership, Leadership, Security Tagged With: business, continuity, crisis, education, leadership, management, resilience, training

Crisis Leadership and Management

June 25, 2012 By MRD Leave a Comment

Crisis Leadership and Management

Any business that has customers, providers, staff and compliance requirements face the potential of situations that could lead to a crisis.

Too many companies and managers focus on crisis management without understanding that the outcome of all crisis events will be dependant upon effective, repeatable crisis leadership. Too few know how to create leadership during crisis, prepare their executives and effectively lead teams during crisis as they engage and communicate with stakeholders.

Management Research and Development know the challenges faced during a crisis and how to prepare select managers and executives for crisis and emergency events. Our highly specialised approach will prepare business units and leaders for the real world requirements that encompasses how to identify stakeholders, create effective messages, communicate, utilise media and social media along with providing guidance to reports and collaborators.

We have saved companies from financial loss, contained product contamination events, recovered kidnapped executives, navigated war-torn and disaster ravaged countries and guided teams through major business change.

Our approach creates a legacy, that continues on after we have delivered a solution, that provides confidence and structure to companies to effectively identify and lead businesses through crisis events. Education materials, workshops, support tools, priority resources, training collateral and expert consultancy are just some of the hallmarks of our approach.

Filed Under: Crisis Leadership Tagged With: consulting, crisis, crisis leadership, crisis management, development, management, plans, research, training, workshop

E-Learning Solutions

June 4, 2012 By MRD Leave a Comment

E-Learning Solutions

Businesses need to develop and support their leadership teams and managers. Time, distance, availability and daily demands make collective education and training difficult. Online or e-learning is increasingly accessible and ideally suited for many training and development solutions.

Businesses and departments can create a suite or complimentary online, accessible training solutions for just about any management role and function.

Management Research and Develop have created simple, 5 step training programs online for key decision makers up to large executive training and development systems to produce better, more prepared senior executives.

We can standardise foundation training, provide advance education concepts and deliver priority resource material to assist decision making processes during time-critical events.

Filed Under: E Learning, Education Tagged With: consulting, development, e-learning, education, leadership, management, research, training