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CC Series Short: Exercise Delivery – Event Management
How you deliver the exercise is important. Ensuring that everyone is engaged throughout the session and that they receive the best training experience is important. If there is external participation or need for observers to access the exercise, then using online...
CC Series Short: Exercise Delivery – Opening Statement and The Issues Board
During the course of the exercise, there will be times when an issue surfaces that cannot be resolved because of exercise time constraints. We define an “issue” as something whose resolution is important to the organization’s crisis or business continuity plan, but...
An Update from Rob Burton
In Episode 101 of the podcast Rob reflects on 17 years in business, ICMC 2022, as well as his DRJ presentation coming up in the Fall.
CC Series Short: Final Preparations Check List – Part Two
The final exercise preparations are really about making sure your doing a rehearsal. It is your opportunity to do a dry run of your exercise to be sure everything is organized and in place. In this short video clip from the Crisis Coordinator Webinar Series, Rob...
CC Series Short: Final Preparations Check List – Part One
An important step in conducting a successful exercise is to ensure that final preparations are made and thoroughly checked before the start of the exercise. In this short video clip from the Crisis Coordinator Webinar Series, Rob Burton goes over the first few items...
CC Series Short: The Pre-Read Video and the Trusted Agent
Scenario security is important: It helps ensure that the participants react in a realistic way. The team preparing the exercise should not share information on the scenario with the players. The controllers and evaluators should know the scenario very well. Everybody...
Building a Resilient Business – An Interview with Brian Zawada
In our 100th Episode we interviewed Brian Zawada the Chief Strategy Officer of Castellan Solutions. Brian provided insight into his career and the correlation between his work and wine growing which is something he does in his spare time. He spoke about the...
Managing Crises in a City That Never Sleeps – An Interview with Kelly McKinney
In Episode 99 of the podcast Kelly McKinney discusses how he got into emergency and crisis management back in 2001. Kelly also spoke about the challenging roles throughout his career as well as how he is part of a team that helps make NYU Langone Health safer and more...
Receiving Timely Notifications During Critical Events – An Interview with Erik Endress
In Episode 98 of the podcast Rob interviews Erik Endress of Share911. Erik discusses the importance of receiving timely and accurate information during those first few seconds of an emergency. Erik also provided an insight in the the types of scenarios that require an...
CC Series Short: Creating Exercise Visuals
The saying “a picture paints a thousand words” has never been as true in the world of simulation exercises. The only difference is that it’s not just pictures that can create realism and keep participants engaged. It has never been easier to create simulation videos,...
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