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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…
Risk Communication Preparedness: MERS CoV & The Stigma Dilemma
The problem facing South Korean Health Minister Moon Hyung-pyo was painfully obvious and played out during his May 31 press conference in Seoul regarding MERS CoV. As MERS CoV cases continued to climb and fear of the disease threatened to envelop the nation, the Minister explained that the key to…
Communicating Risk to a Distrustful Public – What works; What doesn’t
In the May 4th New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell wrote an article called, “The Engineer’s Lament: Two ways of thinking about automotive safety.” To the engineer, Gladwell writes, a car’s safety lies on a continuum of extremes ranging from totally unsafe to completely safe. In contrast, the public’s view, and, usually, the…
12 Tasks to Organize your Tabletop Exercise
As part of the preparation to conduct a tabletop exercise there are several important administrative and technical items that are easy to forget. Forgetting one or more of these items may lead to a less than desirable outcome during the exercise. Here’s that list: Identify the training location(s) Finalize the…
The Kidnapped CEO
Kidnap, Ransom, and Extortion Scenario Planning The CEO lands in Rome for an executive leadership conference and never arrives at his hotel. Calls to his mobile phone go straight into voice mail. His scheduled driver and security detail in Rome have also gone missing. The clock is ticking….. What do you…
Crisis Exercise – The After Action Report
An After Action Report (AAR) is used to provide feedback on the exercise. It summarizes exercise events and analyzes performance of the tasks identified as important during the planning process. It also evaluates achievement of the selected exercise objectives and demonstration of the overall capabilities being validated and documents gaps…
Assess and Identify Risk With “TRiM” – Trauma Risk Management
It’s a routine day in your busy city office. Nothing unusual until something utterly catastrophic and unexpected ruins your day, maybe your life. Terrorist attack, industrial accident, natural disaster, lone shooter, unprovoked serious assault, the possibilities are endless. Well, we all know how we would respond to the physical…