Well, laryngitis has set in. Not a good deal for a speaker. However, I have no speaking engagements until next week and I am hoping with a lot of care and keeping quiet that my voice will return to its full glorious self. It has been a challenge since I put off most of my phone calls this week until today. Obviously, that is not happening - at least not in the normal way of doing things. I have been able to be accommodating with the people I was supposed to call by faxing, emailing and doing online chats instead.
This got me thinking about disaster recovery planning. I had a training session yesterday (immediately prior to my voice going out) and we touched on the subject of the importance of disaster planning. There are many good resources out there to help with disaster planning. I wonder if any of them talk about losing your voice? They would if they were being set up for professional speakers. What things are core to your business that you haven't thought about ways to compensate when something happens?
I have heard it said that when you lose a sense, that the other senses take over and compensate. We have so many more options now with technology. Give it some thought. If something happened to your business and one service was shut down - how would you compensate? What could you use to replace it? Can you get things from somewhere else? Is there another way of doing something that you might not have thought of because you have been doing it that way for years? Who knows, with a little thought now about disaster planning, you might come up with better ways to do things now.
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