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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...
Exercise Objectives
In this 15th episode of the Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses the importance of exercise objectives. https://vimeo.com/365416390
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, and...
Exercise Process
In this 14th episode of the Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses the 5-steps of the Exercise Process. https://vimeo.com/363905115
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...
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." https://vimeo.com/361621055
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...
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. https://vimeo.com/360530183
Leadership in Crisis: A Culture of Preparedness
Like many strategic planning processes; risk management often gets shuffled to the side. The daily urgent matters take precedent over preparing for the low probability, high-risk icebergs or “Black Swan”[1] events. Economic impact on organizations that are not...
Exercise Types
In this 2nd episode of September's crisis simulation exercise series, Rob discusses the different types of exercises. https://vimeo.com/357950764
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