Surprise! – Its Hurricane Season

Surprise! – Its Hurricane Season

“With every mistake, we must surely be learning.” ~ George Harrison (While My Guitar Gently Weeps) The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season is becoming one of the most active seasons on record, thanks to a stretch of long-lived, destructive hurricanes over the past five...
The Role of the Crisis Leader Versus the Crisis Communicator

The Role of the Crisis Leader Versus the Crisis Communicator

A Crisis Leader Needs to Think Strategically and Make Key Decisions for the Overall Management and Response Being able to coordinate multiple functional areas of an organization during a crisis requires detailed preparation. The CMT (Crisis Management Team) should...
12 Tasks to Organize your Tabletop Exercise

12 Tasks to Organize your Tabletop Exercise

As part of the preparation to conduct a tabletop exercise there are several important administrative and technical items that are easy to forget. Forgetting one or more of these items may lead to a less than desirable outcome during the exercise. Here’s that...