Second Cohort: Every Tuesday from September 15th – October 6th, 2020

HELP CREATE

A RESILIENT BUSINESS COMMUNITY – G2

This is a FREE 4 -week online course via ZOOM, designed for senior business leaders and academics who provide direct support to entrepreneurs. It aims to give participants the tools to educate in capacity-building and strategic analysis. Each session will be 2 hours, in English, for a total of 8 hours. A ZOOM link will be sent after registration.

A certificate of participation and a Digital Badge from the RBI, the Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC) at George Mason University and Echar Pa’Lante, will be issued upon successful completion of the course and a short quiz, which is presented jointly by Mason’s Volgenau School of Engineering and School of Business.

All the lessons will be recorded and be available till the completion of the course. An electronic booklet of contacts will be included.

By the end of the course, support practitioners will have been exposed to ideas about building a resilience business community in Puerto Rico at policy and strategy-related levels and will have learned how to teach and/or advise businesses on the following concepts:

  • How to prepare for the 4 Phases of Resilience (Anticipate, Withstand, Recover, Adapt/Reposition)
  • What resources are available to small and medium businesses to help build resilience in PR
  • The value of a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis
  • Analyzing hazards to businesses in Puerto Rico and their impacts
  • Protecting core business assets such as people, data, operations, etc.

  • How to develop an effective business resilience plan that can adapt to changing business conditions

  • How to exercise the plan and keep it up-to-date