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The Ultimate Guide – Crisis Management Tabletop Exercises
Are you responsible for designing and delivering crisis management tabletop exercises for your organization? The Ultimate Guide to Crisis Management Tabletop Exercises is an eBook written by PreparedEx that explains in detail how your organization can develop...
Is Your Crisis Team Now in “Familiarity Breeds Complacency” Mode?
The COVID-19 pandemic has required organizations to form new routines. Many crisis management team members are working remotely and have now become used to the comfort of their home office, the convenience of Zoom meetings and all sorts of other new procedures...
Interview with Tamrin Olden
Communicating with your stakeholders is important at any time. Communicating with them during emergencies is especially important. In episode 75 we interview Tamrin Olden and discuss the importance of communicating with your stakeholders and putting a plan together...
Is Your Crisis Communications Pitch Perfect?
Guest contributor: Jo Detavernier, SCMP, APR – Owner of Detavernier Strategic Communication Over the last few decades, crisis communicators have been handed from academics different empirically validated theories that help them make the best possible choices in a...
Tabletop Exercise – Pros and Cons
Advantages and Disadvantage of the Tabletop Exercise I came across some information regarding the main advantages and disadvantages of tabletop exercises. I decided to expand on the list based on my experience and knowledge of conducting these types of exercises...
FirstLook – Customized Crisis Simulation Exercises
FirstLook is a customized crisis simulation exercise that is created by PreparedEx and delivered by you. Unlike exercises that are delivered using PowerPoint decks that never engage your teams, FirstLook is a series of dynamic and thought-provoking injects that create...
Return-to-Office: Q & A with Mark and Milena
Series authors: Mark Hoffman and Milena Maneva Previous article: Return-to-Office: Sample Return-to-Office Protocol This is the final installment of our five-part series on Return-to-Office. Milena and I want to thank you for following our series and...
Near Horizon – A COVID-19 Recovery Exercise
So many business continuity issues must be considered over the next few weeks and months - - ranging from business survival, protecting employee health, protecting existing customer relations while gaining new ones, protecting supply chains, liquidity and so on. Near...
Return-to-Office: Sample Return-to-Office Protocol
Series authors: Milena Maneva and Mark Hoffman This is the fourth article in a five-part series on returning to the office. Previous article: Return-to-Office: Preparing your Environment Communicating to all key stakeholders is important, despite the limited...
Return-to-Office: Preparing your Environment
Series authors: Mark Hoffman and Milena Maneva This is the third article in a five-part series on returning to the office. Previous article: Return-to-Office: Protecting Your People It is time to think about office space There is an interesting debate taking...