This webinar is part of The CP Journal’s Academy, which brings together the resources professionals need to improve their operational readiness, recognizes threats and hazards, and get left of bang.
Webinar Summary
This webinar explores how organizations can operationalize the left of bang approach by moving important decisions and actions earlier on the timeline.
Using wildfire as the primary case study, Patrick Van Horne walks through a three-step process to turn preparedness from a general aspiration into a practical decision-making process. Participants will see how to define risks more precisely, recognize meaningful changes before a situation becomes obvious, and assess whether their organization has the plans, people, resources, skills, and validated capabilities needed to act in time.
Although wildfire is used throughout the presentation, the framework is designed to apply broadly across threats and hazards, including workplace violence, severe weather, flooding, cyber incidents, and infrastructure disruptions.
Key Takeaways
Define what you are trying to get ahead of. Move beyond broad threat categories and identify the specific event or consequence your organization is unwilling to be right of bang to.
Establish what should change attention and behavior. Use Watch Points and Action Points to identify the conditions that should cause your organization to pay closer attention, escalate concern, and begin acting.
Make sure you can act while there is still time. Identify the actions that could change the outcome, then assess whether your plans, people, resources, skills, and capabilities are ready to execute them when needed.
