PreparedEx has thousands of hours of preparedness experience in continuity planning, running drills, functional exercises, tabletop exercises, and corporate wargames. The methods we employ have their genesis in the age-old military wargames. Our techniques are far less expensive, and much more quickly applied, than actually building and testing a new concept or technology….
In this 15th episode of the Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses the importance of exercise objectives.
After a crisis and our management of it has run its course, it pays to review all the details of what occurred and evaluate how we responded. We need to determine what could have been done to help us prevent such a crisis from happening in the first place, and take the necessary steps…
In this 14th episode of the Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses the 5-steps of the Exercise Process.
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” ~ Stephen Covey After leaving the military in 2001, it took me several years to adapt to the corporate world. The changes varied from the difference in discipline to the style of leadership. I joined the British Army as…
In this 4th episode of September’s crisis simulation exercise series, Rob discusses building your capability as it relates to crisis management. “Teams must participate in regular exercises to improve their skills.”
We specialize in chaos. In fact, we create chaos by developing simulated crisis exercises that test and validate crisis teams at all levels of an organization. In this blog I’m going to discuss three crisis scenarios that we have found to be of serious concern to organizations in various sectors. There are three kinds…
In this 3rd episode of September’s crisis simulation exercise series, Rob discusses increasing the challenge as it relates to your exercise program.
In this 2nd episode of September’s crisis simulation exercise series, Rob discusses the different types of exercises.
To NASA, fifty years ago and up to this day, NASA’s life-or-death learning is achieved through emergency simulation exercises. Gerry Griffin knows a thing or two about responding to risks. He was the Mission Control flight director for all of NASA’s Apollo Program manned missions, including all six lunar landings. When asked in a…