Training

1. Training is a planned and organized activity to impart business continuity, crisis management, crisis communication or disaster recovery or operational resilience or BCM Audit skills, techniques and methodologies to all staffs to assist them in establishing and maintaining their respective BCM programs. BL-B-5 Click to know more Related Terms: Awareness, Education, Training Roadmap, Training and Awareness Note (1): Training can be viewed as providing schooling using a process or method, and/or repetition is required to achieve desired results and/ or to instruct to make proficient or qualified. Note (2): The significant difference between training and awareness is that training seeks to teach skills, which allow a person to perform a specific BCM function, while awareness seeks to focus an individual’s attention on a BCM issue or set of issues. BCM Institute's Professional Training and Certification BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 7: Program Management CL 2A: Intermediate (Audit) BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 7: Program Management CL 1B: Foundation (BC) BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 7: Program Management CL 1C: Foundation (CM) BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 7: Program Management CL 1CC: Foundation (CC) BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 7: Program Management CL 1D: Foundation (DR) Click to know more about expert level training (Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute)

2. Activities designed to facilitate the learning and development of knowledge, skills, and abilities, and to improve the performance of specific tasks or roles. ([SOURCE: ISO 22300])

A Manager’s Guide to Business Continuity Management for Cybersecurity Incident Response

(Source: ISO 22390:2011 - Societal Security - Guidelines for Exercises and Testing) - clause 3.28

3. Training is more formal than awareness. It aims to build knowledge and skills to enhance competency in job performance. Whereas awareness is generally targeted at all staffs, training is directed at staff with specific functions and responsibilities. For example, staffs involved in the recovery should be equipped and adequately prepared with the necessary knowledge and skill to undertake recovery activities. Training forms part of the awareness, training and education learning continuum.

(Source: Singapore Standard 540 - SS 540:2008)

4. An educational process by which teams and employees are made qualified and proficient about their roles and responsibilities in implementing a Business Continuity Plan.

(Source: ASIS International - ASIS International)

5. Extends beyond job competency produced by training. It integrates skills and competencies into a common body of knowledge to instil in staff the capability of insight, vision and proactive response. For example, staff should be trained to select the appropriate Business Continuity strategy in response to changes in external environment and business operations. Education is the capstone of the awareness, training and education learning continuum.