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Looking Back to Move Forward: What 2025 Reinforced About Crisis Preparedness
As the year draws to a close, it is natural for organizations to reflect on what they accomplished, what they endured, and what still feels unresolved. For many leadership teams,…
19 Things We Do When Preparing for a Tabletop Exercise
This is a common list of things we do throughout the tabletop exercise engagement. During this process we will: Assist in the refinement of exercise objectives in coordination with your organizations exercise coordinator Tailor the scenario to address stated exercise objectives Develop an overview of the scenario story…
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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,…