A tabletop exercise can test, assess and ultimately improve your crisis plan and your crisis response team’s performance. That is, if it’s done right. To be successful and contribute to your organization’s higher state of crisis readiness, your tabletop exercise has to convincingly simulate a crisis scenario. It has to give participants a taste…
Storytelling. Why It’s Become a Buzzword in Business From international companies like Nike, Microsoft and IBM, to small startups, many organizations now employ Chief Storytellers as part of senior management, a move that makes a lot of sense. The business of selling has grown more complicated and competitive requiring new methods of communication to engage…
Active shooter incidents are on the rise in US, and your organization is most definitely at risk. Quoting FBI statistics, the National Fire Protection Association reports that “an average of 6.4 active shooter events occurred annually in the U.S. from 2000 to 2006. From 2007 to 2013, that average more than doubled, to 16.4. From…
Simulated crisis tabletop exercises are like a flu shot: The vaccine won’t prevent the illness one-hundred percent of the time, but if you do get the flu, the vaccine will greatly reduce the illness’ severity and bring you back to health more quickly. The potential illness in your organization is, of course, a crisis….
This interview is with Chris Reagan the Chief Executive Officer at Cerastes Ltd out of the UK. Rob and Chris discuss preparing organizations to for physical and digital threats through better security practices, how hostiles prepare to attack and the surveillance methods they use.
An enterprise faces many threats to it’s existence. Some threats are external and can pose complex challenges, others are internal and come with their own set of unique issues. During any crisis, an organization has a responsibility to react. Some business do this well, others fail miserably. In this podcast we hear from Dermot McCarthy…
A military background isn’t necessary to run a successful tabletop exercise or war gaming scenario. The idea of war gaming as a resource to practice strategic planning and increasing your readiness for the worst-case scenarios has been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years. It is a proven method used by organisations, the military,…
How does your organization prepare for crises? Have you been through the planning process thoroughly? In this interview, we speak with WeWork’s crisis and emergency preparedness manager Michael Gladstone. He talks about the difference between planning in high threat places and those safer or less vulnerable environment. He also spoke about technology and how it’s…
A Crisis Simulation exercise is a great opportunity for a team of professionals to come together and address gaps and issues they may have when it comes to an event. It is a controlled environment for you to understand individual skillsets during a crisis and how the organization can communicate and coordinate during one. As…
These Seven Tips Will Help You Create Impactful and Memorable Crisis Simulation Tabletop Exercises 1. Ensure your tabletop exercise gets off to a good start by doing this…. Ensure you invite the right audience. This may seem obvious, but I have seen tabletop exercises fail when the they include functions that are not engaged throughout…