Jul 21, 2022 | Crisis Management
Exercise evaluators are provided a MSEL and will use it to assist in identifying events they must monitor closely. Evaluators should advise exercise controllers if they have not observed some expected action by the players. This activity will assist controllers in...
Jul 15, 2022 | Crisis Management
How you deliver the exercise is important. Ensuring that everyone is engaged throughout the session and that they receive the best training experience is important. If there is external participation or need for observers to access the exercise, then using online...
Jul 12, 2022 | Crisis Management, Tabletop Exercises
During the course of the exercise, there will be times when an issue surfaces that cannot be resolved because of exercise time constraints. We define an “issue” as something whose resolution is important to the organization’s crisis or business continuity plan, but...
Jul 5, 2022 | Crisis Management
The final exercise preparations are really about making sure your doing a rehearsal. It is your opportunity to do a dry run of your exercise to be sure everything is organized and in place. In this short video clip from the Crisis Coordinator Webinar Series, Rob...
Jun 30, 2022 | Crisis Management
An important step in conducting a successful exercise is to ensure that final preparations are made and thoroughly checked before the start of the exercise. In this short video clip from the Crisis Coordinator Webinar Series, Rob Burton goes over the first few items...
Jun 28, 2022 | Crisis Management
Scenario security is important: It helps ensure that the participants react in a realistic way. The team preparing the exercise should not share information on the scenario with the players. The controllers and evaluators should know the scenario very well. Everybody...