Corporate Wargames – Lessons 1 & 2

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...
Do You Have These Three Crisis Leadership Traits?

Do You Have These Three Crisis Leadership Traits?

After a crisis and our management of it has run its course, it pays to review all the details of what occurred and evaluate how we responded.   We need to determine what could have been done to help us prevent such a crisis from happening in the first place, and...
Practice = Better Discipline

Practice = Better Discipline

  “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”  ~ Stephen Covey   After leaving the military in 2001, it took me several years to adapt to the corporate world. The changes varied from...
Creating Chaos for a Purpose

Creating Chaos for a Purpose

We specialize in chaos.   In fact, we create chaos by developing simulated crisis exercises that test and validate crisis teams at all levels of an organization. In this blog I’m going to discuss three crisis scenarios that we have found to be of serious...
5 Questions to Help Create Situational Awareness

5 Questions to Help Create Situational Awareness

During an incident it is imperative that the CMT (Crisis Management Team) has good overall Situational Awareness throughout the whole event.   This will allow leaders to better understand the situation enabling them to make well informed and accurate decisions....