Disaster Recovery Training for Business: Importance, Methods, and Support

This article discusses the importance of disaster recovery training for businesses, the methods used to facilitate training, and the support provided to clients. It covers topics such as team building, recovery procedures, workplace health and safety, crisis counseling, and the proper use of equipment. The article also highlights the importance of information technology and response readiness. Various rehearsal and training strategies are discussed, including the use of an alert roster and phone alert and reporting systems. Finally, the article provides information on the support provided to clients, including hosting services, IT services, and small training seminars.

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Topic in the training content
This training content will give a small idea on which the whole plan is based upon, and
further related methods to be discussed with the supervisors and managers.
The training content will include:
 Team building
 Recovery procedures and the use of equipment
 Recovery of information technology
 Workplace health and safety at emergency
 Crisis counseling
 Proper use of equipment
Importance of topic to business
An organization sets objectives that it needs to achieve with the help of its internal
customers. For this purpose, there is an importance of team building in any organization either
small or large. Team building facilitates better communication between the employees and the
management. Also, promotes creativity and even develops problem solving skill (Sahebjamnia,
Torabi & Mansouri, 2015). Most of the businesses use information technology to communicate
within and outside the organization for effective and quick process. Laptops, internet, electronic
mail and several other kinds of information technologies are used, which if stops working can
create a massive amount of loss. Therefore, it is necessary to recover data and applications to
meet the need of the business in time (Mejri et al., 2017). The necessity of response readiness

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which compiles recovery procedures to be planned is also to be adapted and learned to tackle an
emergency situation.
Type of methods use to facilitate training
Several approaches can be used to support the training such as organizing recovery
workshops, first aid training and in-house training including mock disasters. Organizing recovery
workshops will let the individual understand the behavior of each and help to grow group
integration in case of emergency. Use of books and articles will also help to gain knowledge on
disaster response and methods to recover, rescue (Phillips, 2015). Then in the age of internet,
some online resources can be found and referred to take help from various websites to show the
less time-consuming methods to keep an update of new developments in disaster recovery
methods. Crisis counseling will also help the employees of the organization to take control and
mastery after any disaster or crisis.
The method will help the organization and its disaster recovery team as
The above techniques will help the organization to build strong internal relation and
understanding within the different organization level. Training the employees with crisis
counseling will help the organization to reduce emerging self-panic at any emergency. Ensuring
data security will interpret the company to stand on a safe side. Training the disaster recovery
team of an organization will build a robust defending team that will be ready to handle and gives
a backup after every disaster or in a disaster (Nilakant et al., 2016). However, training modules
rehearsed with the help of workshop and mock disaster will give transparent propaganda to the
employees. Workplace health and safety is also a sign for the organization to prepare its
employees for maintaining health and helping others with first aid.

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Various rehearsal and training strategies
The use of an alert roster can prove out to be useful to the organizations. In other words,
phone alert and reporting system will be beneficial (Jacobs et al., 2016). This alert system should
be tested and rehearsed more frequently as mobile phones are one of the gadgets used by almost
each of the individuals. Small texts can be generated for emergency response such “I am safe”.
Then an information system with a telephonic interface can be used to automate the process. This
type of information can be useful in cases where rapid notifications are to be performed. It
requires a predefined notification updated with specific details for an effective response. In other
cases, the employees either initials or the existing one of the organization are to be rehearsed
with the specified training required to perform at the time of any disaster (Frances et al., 2016).
Support provided to the client
After rehearsing of the plans with the employees of the organization, and evaluating the
changes needed, then again rehearsing the new plan to check that it works. For any organization,
it is essential to ensure information security, for which we believe supporting our client by the
following services (Ratcliffe, 2017). Also, we will provide Hosting services such as cloud
services, email solutions and with that IT services including software development, network
security, and system integration. Small training to be provided for the above services and proper
handling methods with the help of seminars to the employees.
Conclusion
From the above discourse, it can be concluded that for any organization either small or
large it is a crucial decision to undertake a disaster recovery training to train the team. This
enables the organization to withstand against any disaster occurred suddenly regarding

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information system or rather any of workplace or disaster issue. There are several methods used
to support training such as workshops, counseling and along rehearsing all the strategies will
enhance the disaster recovery training. In addition, providing cloud services, network security
will help the organization to build a strong team.

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