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CM-203Crisis managementPractitioner

Designing and facilitating exercises

A successful exercise is one that reveals a gap

Design a scenario, write injects that force decisions, facilitate without feeding answers, evaluate against criteria set in advance, and turn the debrief into an action plan. The full ISO 22398 method, applied.

Learning objectives

  • Define measurable exercise objectives
  • Write injects that produce decisions
  • Facilitate without steering participants
  • Run a useful hot debrief
  • Produce a tracked action plan

Intended audience

  • Exercise directors
  • Trainers
  • Continuity managers
  • Auditors

Prerequisites

  • Staffing and running a crisis team

Detailed curriculum

Module 1

Designing the exercise

Measurable objectives, forcing injects, prepared evaluation.

Module 2

Facilitating without steering

Facilitation roles, the simulation cell, and the errors that break an exercise.