Emergency Management Intelligence

Providing those in emergency management intelligence roles the practical skills to quickly understand a problem and reduce uncertainty for decision-makers. Includes how to evaluate, integrate, and interpret information to produce relevant intelligence, and how to communicate for influence.

There is a focus on working quickly and effectively in the first stages of a response.

Content covered:

• Understand the intelligence system, including principles, intelligence cycle, decision-makers, proactivity and urgency.

• Identify and evaluate information to determine facts in a dynamic environment.

• Integrate and interpret information to produce predictive, timely, and accurate intelligence to support planning and decision-making.

• Communicating intelligence for influence.

Who this is for:

• Full or part-time people who will fulfill roles in the intelligence function during a response.

• Emergency management staff who interact with the intelligence function and seek further understanding of how to use and support it.

Course structure options:

• 1 day. Lessons only, including short practical activities.

• Combine with a half day Intelligence Activation Exercise to solidify learning (1.5 days total) - highly reccommened by previous participants.

Participants also receive the Intelligence Practitioner’s Handbook, a guide to all teaching points covered throughout the course issued by the New Zealand Institute of Intelligence Professionals (NZIIP).

Cost: Options available for in-house delivery.

A common grounding in the fundamental knowledge and skills required by intelligence analysts to operate in an emergency management environment during an activation.