The Exercise Control Team
In the 17th episode of our Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses the Exercise Control Team, which is the group responsible for creating, delivering and evaluating the exercise.
Scenario Generation Ideas
In the 16th episode of our Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses a few ideas to help generate your scenario.
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 techniques are far less expensive, and much more quickly applied, than actually building and testing a new concept or technology….
Exercise Objectives
In this 15th episode of the Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses the importance of exercise objectives.
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.”
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.
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 prepared for crisis situations can be dire. Leaders, who perhaps did not receive proactive support from…
Exercise Types
In this 2nd episode of September’s crisis simulation exercise series, Rob discusses the different types of exercises.
NASA Knows: 4 Key Lessons Learned From Tabletop Exercises
To NASA, fifty years ago and up to this day, NASA’s life-or-death learning is achieved through emergency simulation exercises. Gerry Griffin knows a thing or two about responding to risks. He was the Mission Control flight director for all of NASA’s Apollo Program manned missions, including all six lunar landings. When asked in a…
Why We Exercise
For September’s Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob will be discussing all things crisis simulation exercises. In this 10th episode, Rob talks about why we exercise.