BBS037 - Intangible skills, key to future employablility and promotion, with Cheyene Marling
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G'day, this is Ken Simpson and welcome to episode 37 of Beyond the Black Stump. Do you live to work, or do you work to live? My guess is that most fit into the later group. So altruistic ideas around awareness raising and learning good, but show me the money! My guest today is well positioned to advise on the return on investment for our personal learning and development. She runs one of the better known recruitment firms in the BC/risk field and we discuss the skills and expertise that employers are looking for. The company she founded, BC Management, also...
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BBS036 - Reflecting on awareness, in the rear vision mirror
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G’day this is Ken Simpson and welcome to an overdue episode 36 of Beyond the Black Stump. Last week I was hit by the podcaster’s nightmare scenario - sore throat and coughing. Not a good sound, so I spared you the experience. But I still wanted to share my thoughts about BC Awareness week and how we go about trying to promote the discipline. My thanks to the small number of practitioners who reached out and wanted to share views on this year's events. So Business Continuity Awareness Week has come and gone for another year, and my Awareness Challenge for the month of May has ended. The...
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BBS035 - Finding the passion, and a new voice, for the future. Sarah Kara.
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G'day, this is Ken Simpson and welcome to episode 35 of Beyond the Black Stump. Our May podcasts are all about awareness, not just making others aware of BC - but ensuring that we increase our awareness of other disciplines, the world around us - and how these things are changing. This week my guest is a young, female practitioner. While those two attributes alone make her rare in BC circles, she can also claim another rare attribute of being a second generation practitioner. Listen in and perhaps become more aware of the thinking and expectations of the new generation. You may become more...
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BBS034 - Awareness and the Value of Ideas with Andrew Scott
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G'day, this is Ken Simpson and welcome to episode 34 of Beyond the Black Stump. The podcast for the risk. Continuity and resilience communities. Links in this show I had every intention of recording live conversations at the Australasian BC Summit this week, but it wasn't to be. I actually had to miss the second day of the Conference due to client commitments. Despite only having one day at the conference I thought I got value from it. The great thing about value is that it has meaning only "in the eye of the beholder" so to speak. What value do you put on a new idea? Learning about...
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BBS033 - Resilience Awareness Challenge and Glen Redstall on the Australasian BC Summit
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G’day this is Ken Simpson - and welcome to a new week, and a...
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BS032 - Adaptive ideas and resilience as culture, with Aaron Gracey
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BBS031 - New perspectives on practice and Value with Luke Bird
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BBS030 - Fit for purpose Part 2. Capabilities and Disabilities
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G’day this is Ken Simpson and welcome to Episode 30 of Beyond the Black Stump. ...
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BBS029 - Resilience = Fn(Confidence + Trust + Capability) IN Context
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G’day, this is Ken Simpson and we are back with a mid-week episode - the 29th Beyond the Black Stump Podcast. ...
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BBS028 - EM in Middle Earth and embedding vulnerability into the culture - Karen Stephens Pt1
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Another variation in show format today. No interview or guest, instead let’s talk about one of the core practices within the Business Continuity discipline, and how we could make that a core contributor to the wider concept of resilience.
We touched on this in the last show with Rina also. This is a subject that I have written several papers and blog posts about so the show is also a bit of an experiment to use the audio format as an alternative to the written paper.
The written versions are all linked in the show notes if you are motivated to read further.
The practice I am talking about today is known by different names, and unfortunately they actually describe very different practices. Do you use these words interchangeably?
- Testing,
- Exercising,
- Rehearsing
Perhaps you just lump all of these things under the compliance-oriented label of “verification”?
Like a number of areas of our practice unless we are very clear about what we are doing – and more importantly, why we are doing it, we will continue to struggle with Executive relevance and the aspiration to one day be considered a profession.
Links for today's show
- Research on CEO perspectives on resilience
- My articles on this subject
As always I would appreciate a comment or rating on iTunes – and there is always the LinkedIn community if you want to engage. Finally, this show was derived in part from a paper I wrote in 2014 that was short-listed for BC Paper of the Year in 2015. If you would like to receive a complimentary copy of that paper, just click the link in the show notes and subscribe to the Black Stump Book Club mailing list. If you are already a subscriber, thank you, and the White Paper will already be in your email.
Join me next week for our March Book Club episode with Andy Osborne. Andy is an easy guy to speak to and writes in a very entertaining style. He is also a great proponent of building capability rather than documenting plans, and has also been known to use a range of his sporting experience to highlight BC issues. Hopefully you will find it a good complement to the issues explored in today’s show.
Until next week, stay safe on your journey.