Organisational resilience and risk resources

As a commercial building tenant, does your building have the seismic resilience needed to meet your organisation’s needs? Check out our new Seismic Risk Resource for Commercial Building Tenants.

As a commercial building tenant, does your building have the seismic resilience needed to meet your organisation’s needs? Check out our new Seismic Risk Resource for Commercial Building Tenants.

NZ Red Cross have created this pocket book of wisdom from over 100 recovery leaders who share the messages they wish they’d had.

When your organization is in the midst of crisis, here are some prompts to use as touchstone to ensure you are on track

Our organisational resilience benchmarking tool provides a comprehensive report of an organisation's resilience strengths and weaknesses by measuring and benchmarking against other organisations.

A tool to measure an employee's resilience based on a self-assessment of their work attitudes.

Resilient Organisations' Executive Director, Erica Seville has written this practical and highly readable guide to building resilience in your organisation.

When your organization is in the midst of a crisis, use these prompts as a regular touchstone to ensure you are thinking creatively enough about ways to address challenges.

When your organization is in the midst of crisis, use these prompts as a regular touchstone to maintain your situation awareness.

Building adaptive resilience in organisations is a long-term process. This booklet outlines the stages in the process, starting with clarifying how resilient your organisation is today, and then moves through a series of activities that foster greater resilience.

The relationships your organization has fostered over time are a significant asset during times of crisis - be sure to utilize them.

Download a questionnaire to quickly assess your organisation's resilience.

When your organization is in the midst of crisis, use these prompts as a regular touchstone to reflect if you are delivering the leadership needed to get your organization through.

When your organization is in the midst of crisis it is important to demonstrate that you care. And not just with words, but also with actions and initiatives to support people as they negotiate the stressful situations that crises inevitably present.

Insurance is only useful if the policy delivers what you need and when you need it. This short guide will help you select the right policy, learn how to prepare to use it, and make a claim.

This booklet presents a framework to help your organisation adapt, survive, and thrive in turbulent environments.

In the midst of a crisis? This booklet will help you respond, recovery, and thrive and provides quick, practical advice to help navigate the three stages of the recovery journey.

A short guide to help prepare a crisis leadership team before an event and improve effectiveness during an event.

Organisations caring for the wellbeing of their staff are more likely to survive, and to recover faster from disaster. This booklet shows you how to plan and support your staff through a crisis.

Disruption and adversity are the harsh facts of life for businesses. This booklet shows you simple steps you can take to help your business get through and build your organisation's resilience.

This is an industry-specific guide to improving potable water resilience with recommendations to help key players in the water sector understand what they can do differently to improve resilience.

Good Business continuity planning helps reduce the impacts of a crisis. To get the most out of your plans you need to be making them adaptive - here are some key tips on how to build your organisation's adaptive capacity.

Recovery may take longer than you initially expect. Help your organisation through this period by being ready to adapt, change decisions, and keep moving forward, even with incomplete information.

Crises often change the business environment - be ready to adapt to this new environment so you can take advantage of this unique opportunity.

Crises and disruption generate uncertainty. Keeping your staff updated should be your first priority/ It is also important to establish two-way communication with suppliers and customers.

Explore different ways to support your staff. By taking care of them you help your organisation recover.

Building relationships with other organisations during a crisis helps recovery.

A disruption in your supply or logistics chain can severely disrupt your business's ability meet your customer's needs.

Look after your leaders - it helps your organisation recovery and thrive.

Recovery can take time. Here are some things to keep doing to help your business recover well.

View a recorded presentation of Erica Seville and Richard Ball presenting their insights from the Board's Role in Crisis project.

Read our key recommendations for boards and management on how to manage the role of their board of directors through a crisis.

View an interview with Resilient Organisations Principal Consultant, Tracy Hatton, about the importance of water resilience.

Stress testing plans is important to both ensure plans are adequate but also to make sure staff are practiced and ready to face a crisis when it occurs. Here are 9 ideas on how to engage your team in stress testing your plans.

Risk is a big part of the construction industry - both part of its success and failure. Here are 10 simple steps towards better risk management you can implement to improve the productivity and performance of your organisation.

Want to make sure your organisation is prepared for an earthquake? Download our free Earthquake Preparedness Guide to help get you started.

We have created a handy 1-pager to get you started on your debriefing process, making sure you are more resilient to the next crisis.

Insurance shouldn't be your only resilience strategy - you need to balance your efforts to maximise your claims with your efforts to move your business forward. This tip can help you understand this balancing act and how to get the best from your insurance policy.

Engaged staff will help your organisation recover and thrive. This handout discusses several ways you can support your staff so they can help support your business during times of crisis.

It is important to strategically plan your recovery following a crisis event. This guide provides steps for resilience crisis recovery planning.

While collating the learnings from crisis events is normally left until after an event, in a long-running crisis like COVID-19 we strongly suggest capturing lessons now, to enact improvements to help you through the ongoing crisis.

Crisis recovery is the long game of adjusting and re-building your organisation for a new normal and beyond. This quick guide gives you five things to keep in mind that can help your long-term recovery.

For those organisations without a business continuity plan, this is a simple plan to help you work out how to maintain your essential business operations during disruption and crisis.