Building Crisis Management Competency Through Exercises

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

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...
Building Crisis Management Competency Through Exercises

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

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...
Building Crisis Management Competency Through Exercises

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.  ...