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The Readiness Test

Posted on October 11, 2015 at 7:45 pm by Darby Kate McFall

With All Due Respect. . . .

I am not a Business Continuity/Resiliency Planner(BCP). I am an emergency response planner. I understand the importance of BCP, but the topic never really piqued my interest until September, 2014 during a pre-conference workshop I was attending. It was there I listened to and met, Dr. David Lindstedt.

I was captivated from the beginning of his workshop. This was not your ordinary BCP workshop. I always thought BCP was about recovery from a system outage or what to do if your corporate headquarters was hit by a tornado. Yes, I am over simplifying but you get my point. This was far more than the usual presentation on BCP.

What Dr. Lindstedt addressed in his conference was a tool that went beyond the “plans on paper” stage and addressed the issue I always felt was missing from BCP and that was readiness! How do you measure how ready you are for when a disaster, manmade or natural impacts your company’s infrastructure. Dr. Lindstedt had the answer, The Readiness Test™.

The Readiness Test™ reflects an organizations readiness in 3 key areas:

Resources
Competencies
Procedures

How comfortable are your employees in executing your organizations business continuity plan? Do your employees feel they have the competencies and skills needed to respond in an emergency? How well do your employees understand the procedures spelled out in your BCP. The Readiness Test is able to measure these 3 key performance indicators.

With the Readiness Test, you are able to:

Obtain a quantitative measure of your company’s ability to recover from disaster.
Monitor progress of your staff across the entire organization through easy to interpret diagrams.
Compare readiness across multiple departments to find out who is really ready, and who is not.

This was the first time in a long time where a BCP presentation held my attention. Yes, Dr. Lindstedt did a great job presenting but the overwhelming interest for me was the measurement of readiness.

Are you ready?

For more information:

Contact me: kjenkins@kenjenkinsllc.com

or

Contact Dr. Lindstedt directly: david@readinessanalytics.com

Learn more about The Readiness Test at: www.readinessanalytics.com

Try The Readiness Test for free at: http://www.readinesstest.com

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As a clinical social worker and aviation disaster family member, this book is essential for those who work with victims’ families and survivors of mass casualty incidents. Ken’s insight, which is gleaned from responding to eight (8) commercial aviation disasters, serves as an invaluable resource in learning how to balance company procedures and priorities with compassion. As we know, it’s a matter of when, not if the next disaster occurs...will you be ready?

Jennifer Stansberry Miller, MSW, LCSW Founder and President of Connections, A Disaster Resource Consortium, Inc.

I’ve always had a problem with academic folks who write books and teach classes about things they’ve never done. This book’s credibility is established by the experience of its author, Ken Jenkins. I lived through several of the accidents referenced in this book. I saw Ken and his peers struggle as they assisted family and friends of accident victims. The human experiences shared in this book are real and few people can tell this story. If you’re going to read one book on post-accident family assistance, this is the one to read. You will not find another author with more experience and knowledge on this topic than Ken Jenkins.

Tommy McFall Aircraft Accident Investigation, Reconstruction, and Expert Witness

Ken Jenkins hooks us by first sharing his own personal tragedies and resilience. He then takes us on a journey of the trauma, survival, and resilience of survivors of airline crashes. Ken does this by not only sharing his experience and integrating the dos and don’ts of traumatic event response, but also taking us into the mind of the care team responder. There he shares first-hand the psychological and emotional experiences of working with survivors, and also coming to know the victims of traumatic events through their families. This is a must read for all traumatic event response team members.

Steve L. Whatley, Ph.D. Retired Police Sergeant & Crisis Interventionist