What Does My Business Unit BCM Coordinator Need to Improve Their BCM Competency and Skill?

Competence as an Organisation BCM Coordinator is not about knowing only business continuity.

It includes the ancillary skill sets of crisis management and crisis communication. The other skill sets include the ability to review the BCM program and participate in the IT disaster recovery planning process.

Hence, the Organisation BCM Coordinator needs to know all three competencies, "Know-Do-Manage."

With this in mind, the Organisation BCM Coordinator has several training routes to choose from depending on his/her schedule and certification needs.

Other Core Skillsets

If you have completed the BCM training, you should continue upgrading your competency to include crisis management and crisis communication. Another core skill is to be able to review and audit a BCM program. The auditing skill set will also apply to the review of crisis management and crisis communication plans. For those who are required to work with the IT team and have a strong IT background, the attendance of the IT disaster planning course will be a good selection.

Certification Versus Competency-based Training

Certification Courses	Competency-based Courses
ISO 22301 BCMS Implementer (Course Code: BCM-300)	Assessing BC Requirements (Course Code: BCM-310) Developing BC Strategies and Plans (Course Code: BCM-320) Testing and Exercising Business Continuity Plans (Course Code: BCM-330)
ISO 22301 BCMS Auditor (Course Code: BCM-8030)	Not applicable (No equivalent)
Crisis Management Implementer (Course Code: CM-300)	Implement a CM plan (Course Code: BCM-360) Manage and Execute a CM plan (Course Code: BCM-460)
Crisis Communication Implementer (Course Code: CC-300)	Implement a CC plan (Course Code: BCM-350) Manage and Execute a CC plan (Course Code: BCM-450
Disaster Recovery Implementer (Course Code: DRP-300)	Not applicable (No equivalent)

If you are wondering about the differences between Certification and Competency-based training courses, you may want to read "What are BCM Certification and Competency-based Courses?"

Funding from the Singapore Government

For Singaporeans who want to receive funding, you may want to consider the equivalent of the certification course by attending the competency-based training sanctioned by SkillFuture Singapore (SSG).