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.
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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…
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Exercise Types
In this 2nd episode of September’s crisis simulation exercise series, Rob discusses the different types of exercises.
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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…
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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.
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How Tabletop Exercises Make Strong Leaders
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” —John F. Kennedy JFK, the president who inspired a nation to reach the moon, knew a thing or two about leadership. His quote above succinctly drives the point: it’s continuous learning that makes leaders stronger, better able to guide their organizations to achieve particular goals. When a…
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The 5 Levels of Simulation Exercises
All organizations should consider the advantages of implementing a comprehensive exercise program rather than focusing on singular periodic simulation exercises. Whether they are a start-up company, an older well-established company, an organization undergoing a leadership change, or a company that is has just completed a merger, and are in the process of developing a…
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10 Benefits of Crisis Simulation Exercises
When is the last time your organization ran a crisis simulation exercise? While the reasons are many, some that serve as a foundation for a strategic-based approach to tabletop exercise programs include: Provides an Opportunity to Review and Analyze Risk In every business environment where there’s risk, continual assessment of known risks as well…
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The Crisis Simulation – Scenario Planning
Crisis simulation scenarios provide at least two important services – First, it provides a plausible starting point or setting for the exercise participants to examine particular challenges as well as responses to a crisis (e.g., hurricane, flooding, earthquake, explosion, cyber attack, workplace violence, contaminated products, etc.). One of he chief challenges in scenario development…
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4 Essential Cyber Security Tabletop Exercise Tips
When is the last time your organization conducted a cyber security tabletop exercise? Cyber security teams are busy monitoring and responding to attacks against your organization’s information technology infrastructure. Should you still be conducting tabletop exercises? The answer is yes, of course you should. Although some teams seem to be in response mode on…
