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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…
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Which plan do you activate during an incident?
Emergency Response? Crisis Management? Business Continuity? Disaster Recovery? How do you know which plan to use during an incident? It’s often confusing which plan to activate, and who is in charge. Each plan should clearly identify the scope and responsibilities for executing the plan and have distinct and disparate…
Striving For Continuous Improvement
At PreparedEx, our client’s feedback is priceless. Our clients routinely evaluate the exercises at the end of each session. We use a standard evaluation form which we then summarize and track for trends to ensure that changes to our process, tools, etc. are improving exercise results. We use a scale…
Activating the Crisis Communications Team: Four Considerations
Guest contributor: Jo Detavernier, SCMP, APR – VP and Partner with Swyft. The Crisis Communications Team (CCT) is the team of professionals within the organization that manages the communication function during a crisis. This team works closely with the Crisis Management Team (CMT) that makes the important decisions…
“Our CEO is a Criminal; Our Leadership Looked the Other Way”
How to create and sell an awkward crisis exercise scenario It’s often the case that the most severe crises that cause lasting harm to a company’s brand and valuation are internally generated. These crises are the result of wrong-doing, sometimes even outright criminal behavior, by members of the C-suite,…
The Crisis Coordinator – Organizing the Team
Quickly Assembling and Organizing your Crisis Team is Critical to the Success of Your Response. A Crisis Coordinator is Essential! What is a Crisis Coordinator? Each member of a crisis team has a functional role – e.g. Corporate Security, Human Resources, Corporate Communications, etc. The Crisis Coordinator plays an…