Dec 21, 2016 | Crisis Management, Emergency Management, Exercises, Security
1. The Master Events Log The MEL (Master Events Log) is an essential document that can help the crisis team document the incident as soon as it starts to unfold. The MEL is a document that should be filled out by a scribe who usually is in close coordination with the...
Nov 14, 2016 | Business Continuity, Crisis Management
What is this thing we call resilience? There are various definitions dependent upon the context in question. We tend to talk about ‘organisational resilience’ or ‘personal resilience’ without necessarily understanding the relationship between the two. In the personal...
Nov 7, 2016 | Business Continuity, Crisis Communications, Crisis Management, Emergency Management
When you establish your crisis management capability, conduct crisis management exercises, or actually go through crises, what are the most common issues or gaps that are uncovered? Within this article, I define a few of the more common issues that we see when...
Oct 12, 2016 | Crisis Communications, Emergency Management, Exercises, Podcast, Security, Tabletop Exercises
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | RSSCommunities are not just made up of homes and apartments. Many communities have businesses that provide jobs and other services to those communities. Major cities have businesses that...
Sep 20, 2016 | Business Continuity, Crisis Communications, Crisis Management, Exercises, Podcast, Security, Tabletop Exercises
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | RSSWe often get asked the same preparedness questions. These questions come from our online audiences as well as our clients during crisis simulation exercises or in everyday discussions....