Disaster Recovery Consulting

What if the worst happens - a natural disaster or a terrorist attack? Can your business survive? Can you find your employees and help them cope? Our disaster recovery services help ensure you can.

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Just imagine:  The big one hit. Your employees' lives are shattered. Most lost their homes, their belongings, the touchstones of their lives. Disaster recovery may take months-or even years. In fact, disaster recovery simply seems impossible right now.

You know many of your employees are depressed; some are clearly having trouble coping. You're pretty shaken yourself. You're not even sure where disaster recovery starts. And you know disaster recovery for your business can't happen without disaster recovery for your employees.

What do you do? How do you help them - and yourself? How do you ensure business continuity under such devastating circumstances?

Disaster Recovery Consulting Services

Optinet Resources Developmental Consulting, Inc., and Engensus have teamed to craft a unique, state-of-the-art approach to disaster recovery consulting that will help you achieve business continuity. What makes our disaster recovery consulting services unique? They not only help you get business functions up and running, they also focus on your employees' social networks and can advise on restoring the physical plant in a way that will decrease your vulnerability to future events.

Why social networks . . .
The most unique feature in our approach to disaster recovery consulting is our focus on social networks. Sound odd? It shouldn't. Social networks don't just help employees get sales leads, they also play a critical role in disaster recovery, and in promoting business continuity.

Think about it - wouldn't you ask your friends and relatives for help, if a terrorist attack, an earthquake, or a tornado tore your life and your business apart? That's why we've made social networks an integral part of our disaster recovery consulting services.

Pulling it All Together . . .
Our disaster recovery consulting services, then, cover all the bases. We can help you develop a recovery plan that includes dealing with the SBA, working with customers and suppliers, locating your employees, restoring the physical plant. Our team knows where the pitfalls of disaster recovery for business continuity lie, because we helped businesses survive the worst natural disaster in US history. That experience sets us apart - and so does our focus on employees' social networks.

Social Networks and Disaster Recovery Consulting

Roof of house with a patched roof as a result of residents being cut out of the attic when floodwaters rose
Patch in roof, residents cut out of attic

Research shows clearly that people who receive more support from their social networks experience less depression during disaster recovery than people whose networks aren't as well equipped. And we don't just know that research, we produced it.

The grim reality . . .
Think about this fact: Depression among residents of the New Orleans metropolitan area remained approximately double pre-Katrina levels, 18 months after the storm. In other words, residents reported that they were still having trouble sleeping, focusing on tasks, and experiencing other symptoms of depression-on average, residents were experiencing two of these depression symptoms per day. Imagine if that were your empoloyees-think about the effects on productivity, absenteeism, and turnover.

If those people were your employees, wouldn't it make sense to harness the power of their social networks, to combat those effects?

The answer is clearly "yes." But the question is, how?

Assessing Employees' Social Networks - ReadiNets-Recovery

How can you tell if your employees have the kind of networks that promote disaster recovery? And if they don't have them, how do you help them find the support they need?

Putting the ReadiNets - Recovery To Work
The assessment informs our disaster recovery consulting in two important ways. First, it tells us where the employee needs to focus in rebuilding his or her social network, to meet short- and long-term recovery needs. Second, these measures can identify areas in which employees may need short-term assistance to meet immediate disaster recovery needs - help from agencies, such as FEMA, or from faith-based and community organizations.

The results of that assessment let us tailor our disaster recovery consulting to the needs of your employees. We will coach them individually or in groups, advising them on strategies for rebuilding their networks effectively and efficiently and providing information on how to use their networks in short-term and long-term disaster recovery. That's an approach to disaster recovery consulting that no one else can.

Based upon the results of that assessment, we can design disaster recovery coaching and tailor disaster recovery seminars to the needs of your business.

Find Out More About Our Disaster Recovery Consulting
Now that you understand our approach to disaster recovery consulting, find out more about our products and services for disaster recovery consulting, or contact us to see how we can tailor our disaster recovery consulting to the needs of your company.