Is Your Organization Planning for Black Elephant Events?

Feb 1, 2021 | Crisis Management

Why don’t we talk about those “Elephant in the Room” scenarios? Those situations that are obvious to everyone, yet leaders still leave to chance. What are Black Elephant scenarios and is your organization preparing for them? Lessons to be learned from the Covid-19...

Training Methods: Breakout Groups

Mar 25, 2020 | Exercises

During an exercise or war game there will often occur a key decision point when it becomes necessary or more time efficient to break out some of the participants into a separate smaller group, often called a “breakout group.”   This small group can be very...

Corporate Wargames – Lessons 5 & 6

Jan 2, 2020 | Exercises

Click HERE is you missed Corporate Wargames – Lessons 1 & 2 Click HERE is you missed Corporate Wargames – Lessons 3 & 4   Lesson Five – Exercise / Wargame Hot Wash A hot wash is the “after-action” discussions and evaluations of an...

Corporate Wargames – Lessons 3 & 4

Nov 5, 2019 | Exercises

Click HERE is you missed Corporate Wargames – Lessons 1 & 2 Lesson Three – Exercise Program vs. Singular Exercises A bottom up approach works well when a company or organization wants to exercise their response to a disruption of business operations at the...

Pandemic Exercises – Build Resiliency Within Your Business

Jun 24, 2019 | Exercises

Ten years ago, Secretary Mike Leavitt of the Department of Health and Human Services said, “Some will say that the discussions of the Avian Flu was an overreaction. Some may say, ‘Did we cry wolf?’ The reality is that if the H5N1 virus does not trigger pandemic flu,...