Cognitas Global - From Risk to Resilience

From Risk to

Incidents are a fact of life and education leaders have a duty to ensure that they don’t escalate into a crisis

Protecting your people

Educational organisations face an ever-growing range of safeguarding challenges as rapidly evolving threats such as cyber attacks add to traditional dangers.

A robust crisis management culture gives you the ability to protect the value of your organisation, its reputation and its people when a crisis occurs.

How we can help you

Our team of crisis management experts works with organisations to help them implement robust and up to date policies and procedures and ensure that staff are trained and tested on their effective implementation. We ensure that statutory guidance around safeguarding is met and that leadership and management good practice is evidenced.

» Protection of your pupils, staff, revenue and the reputation of the school via an effective crisis capability that manages incidents and reduces the chance of escalation

» Management efficiency via tried and tested crisis procedures ensuring that inspection criteria for organisational leadership are clearly evidenced

» Reduce liability by evidencing best practice to mitigate against possible legal action

» Engage staff via our innovative immersive learning technology to create a crisis resilient culture

» Effective response through the use of our easily accessible incident360 crisis management app bespoke to your organisation

» Up to date crisis management policies and planning optimised for your current risk environment

Cognitas Global have worked with us to maximise our crisis management capability providing expertise and innovative technologies. We now feel much better prepared to protect our pupils, staff and the reputation of the school from the variety of risks that schools currently face.

- Matthew Cotgrove Senior Deputy Headteacher, DESSC

Transition from risk to resilience

No organisation is immune from crisis and recognition of this is essential. Our proven processes help education leaders establish a robust crisis management culture. We offer a holistic service from embedding effective policies and procedures to ensuring that capability is in place.

ASSESS

PLAN

Review your existing crisis management frameworks. Guidance and advice on assessing emerging threats and risks

Develop risk registers, crisis management policies and planstranspose into our incident360 app specifically for your organisation

Design, development and delivery of training for your crisis management team and staff TRAIN

EXERCISE

Delivery of exercises using our experiential learning platform view360global to rehearse your crisis management response

Our class-leading technology

view is a training platform that facilitates experiential decision-making exercises by presenting simulated scenarios using realistic mixed media. Working in teams or individually, learners log their decisions and rationale.

» Create realistic scenarios prompting better decision making

» Facilitator-led with observer options

» Evidence effective learning in real-time

» Downloadable decision logs for audit and evaluation purposes

» In-built video conferencing for remote participation

incident360 is our latest tool to put your crisis management planning into an easily accessible format for when it’s really needed. Bespoke to your organisation with a management portal for easy updating.

» Put your crisis management plan within easy reach of all those who need it

» Presents essential info for dealing with incidents

» Detailed check lists providing guidance for team members

» Provides the Incident Manager with a live report of actions taken

About us

Expertise

Our Consultants and Subject Matter Experts are highly experienced practitioners with proven learning and development skills who apply the same care, attention and professionalism to every project. We encourage a culture of continuing professional development for all our staff and accredit our organisation with key professional bodies to ensure that we remain at the forefront of industry good practice.

Collaboration

Our clients are the most important people to us and an integral part of our business. We value opportunities to share ideas, experience and collaborate on the organic design, development and delivery of a successful learning solution.

Quality Assurance

As an academically accredited training organisation, our reputation has been built on delivering a return on the investment for our clients. We apply our stringent standards to every project in a way that guarantees we deliver a quality assured product that meets the organisation’s operational requirements.

Technology

We embrace the idea of using innovation and technology to change the way that people learn. Engaging people in environments where collaboration breaks down barriers to allow people to think differently and create a rich resource of diverse perspectives is what we do best. We have proven that by engaging people with new methods such as experiential learning, it creates more agility and proficiency within an organisation.

Social Responsibility

We see ourselves as part of a global community with a moral obligation to support it. This includes cutting our own carbon footprint and using our expertise to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive world. Our social responsibility programme includes supporting schools with their careers initiatives and to improve safeguarding.