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Navigating Turbulent Waters: Crisis Management & Business Continuity After a Major Flood
When floodwaters rise, so do the stakes for businesses. For corporate crisis managers, a major flood is more than a natural disaster—it’s a real-time stress test of operational resilience and…
Exercise Types
In this 2nd episode of September’s crisis simulation exercise series, Rob discusses the different types of exercises.
NASA Knows: 4 Key Lessons Learned From Tabletop 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…
Why We Exercise
For September’s Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob will be discussing all things crisis simulation exercises. In this 10th episode, Rob talks about why we exercise.
5 Questions to Help Create Situational Awareness
During an incident it is imperative that the CMT (Crisis Management Team) has good overall Situational Awareness throughout the whole event. This will allow leaders to better understand the situation enabling them to make well informed and accurate decisions. Here are some questions that should be asked on a regular…
The Crisis Management Plan
In this 9th episode of the Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses the Crisis Management Plan and what should be included in it.
How Tabletop Exercises Make Strong Leaders
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” —John F. Kennedy JFK, the president who inspired a nation to reach the moon, knew a thing or two about leadership. His quote above succinctly drives the point: it’s continuous learning that makes leaders stronger, better able to guide their organizations…