What Watchtower can do for you.
In a word? Resilience.
Small and medium businesses and organizations lack the resources that corporations take for granted. They tend to be unique, singular, and vulnerable. What we have is all that we have, we want to protect it when faced with hazards and crises.
Watchtower will work with you to identify your concerns and analyze them through five the phases of emergency management. The result is a clear, concise and direct plan with accurate, actionable and achievable recommendations and guidelines that will directly improve the resilience of your enterprise.
Watchtower’s Services
All of our services, all of our plans, are tailored and customized for each client, no matter the industry, service or objectives. If the client requires portions of one plan in another, or would like to remove unnecessary sections, we will make that happen. Fees are flexible to reflect this.
Business Emergency & Continuity Plan
Hazards and threats to your business or enterprise exist and you want to ensure they have the smallest impact possible. This Plan provides not only prevention, mitigation, preparedness and response planning, but places a focus on recovery. We will help you plan ahead to resume post-crisis operations as soon as possible.
Strategic Emergency Management Plan
This plan is generally applied to businesses, organizations or associations with large numbers of clients involved, are long-term (summer camp, RV park) or short (agricultural fair, workshop), and those which are temporary and/or geographically large or isolated (vacation lodge, cottage association). It deals with the stages of emergency management with a focus on hazards to groups, communications, isolation, etc.
Crisis Communications Plan
This is largely about public and peer opinion and reputation. Does your business or enterprise involve significant interaction with your customer or clients? Is it conceivable that one of your products may be misused and cause harm? Might your food products ever be sold when spoiled or tainted? During a crisis, how your business or enterprise communicates with stakeholders will have a significant impact on your success or failure.
Veteran Entrepreneurs’ Foundational Resilience Plan
Similar in content to the Entrepreneur’s Foundational Resilience Plan, this is written by a veteran with a small business, for other veterans beginning theirs. We see the world differently, and this includes opportunities and obstacles. I understand this and am still learning how to navigate my post-CF life. As I began to build this business and took advantage of the help available to us, I increasingly noticed the unique attributes, skills, and traits we bring to the table. These are valuable starting points for building resilience into your future business.
Instruction and Workshops
A variety of instructional and workshops are available. From building resilience and strength into a business development plan, to continuity after a crisis, to crisis communications, your business’s emergency management plan, and more. These are tailored to the client’s objectives, and the time commitment may vary depending on the topic matter.
Entrepreneur’s Foundational Resilience Plan
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, right? This plan presents ways and means of building resilience directly into your business beginning at the development phase. Inclusion of prevention, mitigation, preparation, response and recovery factors into your enterprise will reduce the true impact of a later crisis or disaster. This represents a significant cost-benefit advantage, compared to being unprepared for the next crisis and its consequences.
Emergency Management Services for Non-profit and Benevolent Organizations
While I’ve never held a position within a volunteer or non-profit organization, I volunteer as a group facilitator with a mental health provider. I am quite proud of helping others. As I moved deeper into emergency management, it became apparent that the crises I work with affect people, not only businesses. If a shelter needs to be evacuated, how will it be done, and where will the people go? If some of your work is abused and placed negatively in the public spotlight, how will you proceed and protect your reputation? My services apply to non-profit and benevolent organizations as well.
