The length of crisis management training depends on the level you are aiming for. Awareness for teams runs 1–2 days. The operational Crisis Manager credential — PECB Lead Crisis Manager — runs 5 days, exam included, and is aligned with ISO 22361:2022.
Crisis management training comes in three levels of commitment. Awareness (1 to 2 days) is an introduction to the concepts with simple simulation exercises, aimed at operational teams. Professional certification (5 days) is the operational level with an exam, aimed at Crisis Manager roles.
The PECB Lead Crisis Manager certification — 5 days, with the exam on the final day — is aligned with ISO 22361:2022, Security and resilience — Crisis management — Guidelines. It validates the ability to run a strategic crisis-management team.
For organisations that want to train their full crisis cell (executive management, COO, CISO, CFO, HR director, communications director), Abilene Academy offers a 2-to-3-day in-house format. The programme combines condensed theory with a table-top exercise built on a scenario specific to the company.
A half-day live simulation is built into the standard Lead Crisis Manager programme — usually a cyber or reputational crisis scenario adapted to the profile of the group.
Match the format to the audience: a full crisis cell learns more from a 2–3 day table-top on their own scenario than from a generic five-day course sized for individual certification.
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An effective crisis-management framework defines leadership, structure, culture and skills, then tests them through scenarios. It has to make decision-making, information flow and communication explicit.
Both the NIS 2 Directive and the DORA regulation require formalised incident- and crisis-management arrangements with defined notification deadlines set out in their respective articles. ISO 22361:2022 provides the methodological framework for the crisis cell that responds to both regimes.
You will be able to explain crisis management concepts and principles under ISO 22361 and define a crisis management framework integrating leadership, structure, culture, and competence.
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