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AI Can’t Read the Room: Why Human Facilitators Are Still the Most Powerful Tool in Crisis Preparedness
By an exercise facilitator who has run hundreds of simulations, watched leadership teams under pressure, and learned one essential truth: when people are stressed, technology steps aside and the human…
Do You Have These Three Crisis Leadership Traits?
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,…
Exercise Process
In this 14th episode of the Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses the 5-steps of the Exercise Process.
Practice = Better Discipline
“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…
Building Crisis Management Competency Through Exercises
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.”
Creating Chaos for a Purpose
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…
Increase the Challenge
In this 3rd episode of September’s crisis simulation exercise series, Rob discusses increasing the challenge as it relates to your exercise program.