Business resiliency is key for small and medium sized enterprises. The ILO (International Labour Organisation) SURE training programme empowers your business in the face of unexpected multiple hazards such as pandemics, cyber attacks, natural disasters, economic upheavals, and social disruptions.

THE CHALLENGE

In today's globalized world, businesses face a vast array of threats to their operations. The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined, as never before, that businesses need to be prepared to face unexpected events. In short, they need to be resilient and sustainable.

THE PROGRAMME

The Sustainable & Resilient Enterprise (SURE) Programme consists of six core modules teaching business leaders nine resilience practices that can be customized for their needs. Developed through a partnership by the ILO and GIZ, and with the support of a global advisory group, these modules are taught through a blended combination of webinars, self-guided eLearning, and individual coaching. You will create a business resilience strategy applicable to your specific needs by the end of SURE training.

ADAPT YOUR BUSINESS

SURE training allows for comprehensive crisis management planning and provides tangible processes for SME leaders to build user-friendly crisis management tools. This training empowers leaders and businesses to face and manage threats from any kind of hazard, crisis, or disaster.

The SURE Training Programme has been designed for people looking to better understand the risks of running a business and how to avoid, share, reduce or even accept them.

The course has a clear, easy-to-understand approach and will enable you to get to grips with a variety of tools and templates. The knowledge you take away from this course will enable you to immediately apply what you’ve learned by compiling a Business Resilience Strategy for your business which gives you the ability to anticipate and respond to crisis, not only to survive and recover but also to evolve.

This course has been designed for:

• small-medium business owners
• upper & middle level management

This course also addresses common challenges, including:

• understanding crisis leadership – What traits are required by a leader who can achieve results during crisis?
• identifying business priority – What are the critical business functions for your business priority?
• recognizing the dangers your business could face - What are hazards and how to analyse risk?
• preventive action to minimise risks - How to build a risk register?
• understanding the bigger picture - How to respond when a sever event (crisis) happens?
• choosing the right path for your business during and after crisis - What are business adaptation strategies and how do they rate?
• enabling your employees to be an assets during crisis – Why does cross-training your employees increases the resilience of your business?

The SURE Tourism training programme should be completed by a business leader, i.e. the business owner or a middle manager/supervisor who acts as business resilience delegate on behalf of the owner.

Participants should be ready to dedicate approx. 52 hours (18 hours for webinars, 4 hours for self-guided eLearning, and 30 hours for application of business resilience tools and development of business resilience strategy) distributed over several weeks to take part in the training programme and to share their learning experience with their colleagues.

Throughout the training programme, participants are required to complete a series of business resilience tools and to write a customized business resilience strategy with the support of a dedicated business improvement team or another group of relevant colleagues. 

The SURE training journey is spread across four modules and consists of 16 learning units. 

The online classes provide participants with core training content on a step-by-step basis. Each online class introduces a new business resilience tool which participants will use to gradually build their business resilience strategy throughout the programme.  During those online classes participants have the opportunity to engage with their peers, coaches, and external experts. 

Self-guided eLearning units give participants the opportunity to study complementary training content at their own pace. A business resilience coach will be available throughout the training programme to provide participants with support to apply the business resilience tools, develop the business resilience strategy, and to motivate them to complete the programme.

MODULE 1 - Laying the foundations

Introduces participants to the SURE programme, its objectives and to the training team involved. In addition, participants are prompted to assess the current resilience state of their enterprises and receive practical inputs to successfully take part in the SURE training programme through reflecting upon their crisis leadership skills and exploring good practices to engage staff in the development of the business resilience strategy. In a webinar with local experts, participants will analyse their business ecosystem and analyse potential sources of risk and identify opportunities to build resilience.

• Online Class 1 Welcome to the SURE programme
• Online Class 2 What is business resilience
• Online Class 3 Crisis leadership
• Self-guided eLearning unit 1 Staff engagement
• Online Class 4 The business ecosystem

MODULE  2 - Identifying hazards and treating risks

Introduces participants to essential risk assessment tools. Starting with the identification of their critical business functions, participants identify hazards and impact scenarios, undertake a risk analysis to identify their most significant risks and devise appropriate risk treatment strategies. 

• Online Class 5 Critical business functions
• Online Class 6 Hazard identification and impact scenarios
• Online Class 7 Risk analysis and treatment
• Self-guided eLearning unit 2 Risk sharing approaches

MODULE  3 - Surviving & recovering after crisis

Prompts participants to develop their own incident response system including elaborating incident response playbooks as well as developing an emergency response and recovery plans. In addition, participants are encouraged to rehearse their incident response system regularly.

• Online Class 8 Incident response system part 1
• Online Class 9 Incident response system part 2

MODULE  4 - Adapting your business and evolving during crisis

Prompts participants to explore approaches and strategies to enhance their businesses and to be able to “build back better” after crisis. This includes strategies to adapt their businesses, to build the skills and competencies within their organizations to become an agile and resilient businesses and to foster a culture of continuous innovation. 

• Online Class 10 Business adaptation
• Self-guided eLearning Unit 3 Digital Transformation
• Online Class 11 Training and Skills Development
• Self-guided eLearning Unit 4 Continuous improvement
• Online Class 12 Coaching and What Next

Assignment Business Resiliene Strategy

• Creation and submission of Business Resilience Strategy

Training Schedule

SURE Tourism training oportunities available on request. 

There are 6 online classes and 4 self-guided eLearning units during this time and the total time investment including assignments is approximatly 52 hours.

Organisational readiness

• commit to sending a business resilience delegate to the SURE training programme who is available to dedicate at least 52 hours to the training
• be motivated to support the business resilience delegate during the development of a customized business resilience strategy with information, technical inputs, and general support
• preferably, commit to create a business improvement team that supports the business resilience delegate during the development of a customized business resilience strategy

IT Equipment 

• be in possession of a laptop or desk computer or tablet (larger tablet can be accepted but not a smart phone!)

Fees

A registration fee of ZAR 2750 per participant is due on invoice after the application has been approved. Members of the Africa Adventure Tourism Network will receive a 10% discount on the registration fee.

Withdrawal, Cancellation and Refund Policy

• 14 days or more prior to the start date of the course: No penalty, 100% refund of amount paid less applicable bank charges
• 8 to 13 days prior to the start date of the course: Penalty of 50% of course price, refund of residual amount paid (if any) less applicable bank charges
• 7 days or less prior to the start date of the course: Penalty of 100% of course price, e.g. no refund.

Registration

Please send us an email to learn@africa-adventure.academy to inquire about registration.

Certificates

The ILO SURE Training follows a two-stage certification process.

• Certificate of Completion is issued upon successful completion of the SURE training programme and the submission of the SURE Evaluation Questionnaire. Important: A minimum of 80% participation in the online learning classes and 100% in the self-guided eLEarning modules is required to qualify for the certificate.
• Certificate of Achievement is issued after above requirements are fulfilled e.g. a Certificate of Completion has been issued and the final assignment (Business Resilience Strategy) has been submitted and evaluated as acceptable.

Both certificates are digital and will be issued by the Africa Adventure Academy featuring both, Africa Adventure Academy and the International Labour Organisation. This course is not registered with South Africa's NQF scheme and therefore you will not qualify to earn any points at the NQF.