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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.

3
lessons
37 min
duration
3
standards covered

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.