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How AI Agents Are Transforming Crisis Management and Simulation Exercises
Crisis management has always required speed, clarity, and coordination under pressure. Yet many organizations still rely on manual processes, static plans, and inconsistent training approaches. As threats become more complex,…
Corporate Wargames – Lessons 1 & 2
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…
Exercise Objectives
In this 15th episode of the Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses the importance of exercise objectives.
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 joined…
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.”