Is your organization prepared to communicate quickly and effectively with each other when a crisis hits? Did you know that nearly 70 percent of all U.S. businesses will lose power at one point in the next 12 months? Do you have a plan in place to keep your operations running? How will you rebuild your business if your employees are unable to report to work after a major disaster?<\/p>\n
Having a business continuity plan is essential to establishing a successful and resilient small business. The cost of creating a disaster preparedness plan is small compared to the financial losses that may occur if there\u2019s no plan in place.<\/p>\n
You can get help with your own preparedness planning through a series of free webinars in September hosted by the U.S. Small Business Administration and Agility Recovery. The series is presented in collaboration with FEMA\u2019s Ready Campaign, during National Preparedness Month. The 2015 NPM theme is \u201cDon\u2019t Wait. Communicate. Make your emergency plan today.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 30-minute webinars will be presented at 2pm EDT each Wednesday in September. All webinars will be recorded and can be accessed online approximately 24 hours following each broadcast at www.PrepareMyBusiness.org\/education. Additionally, Web links to the slide presentations and\/or transcripts can be requested approximately 48 hours following each broadcast by sending an email to scott.teel@agilityrecovery.com.<\/p>\n
These are the topics:<\/p>\n
– Sept. 9: \u201cThe Keystone to Disaster Recovery: Communications\u201d<\/p>\n
– Sept. 16: \u201cRecover from the Most Likely Disaster: Power Outage\u201d<\/p>\n
– Sept. 23: \u201cProtect Your Most Valuable Asset: Prepare Your Employees\u201d<\/p>\n
– Sept. 30: \u201cIf You Do Nothing Else this Year\u2026\u201d Simple tips to build your organization\u2019s resilience.<\/p>\n
To register for any of the webinars, go to http:\/\/agilityrecovery.com\/buildingblocks\/#section-register<\/p>\n
SBA has partnered with Agility Recovery to offer business continuity strategies through their \u201cPrepareMyBusiness\u201d website. Visit www.preparemybusiness.org to access past webinars and additional disaster preparedness tools. (FEMA)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is your organization prepared to communicate quickly and effectively with each other when a crisis…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6921,6922,6923,116],"class_list":["post-209927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-agility-recovery","tag-edt","tag-npm","tag-small-business-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}