CM-203Crisis managementPractitionerPaid
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
estimated time
3
standards cited
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.
Assessment method
Self-check questions throughout the lessons, with no recorded score. Where an associated track leads to a certification, that certification has a separate exam.
Document issued
This course does not, on its own, lead to a certificate. A track certification, where one exists, is issued after its exam is passed.
Continuity & Resilience editorial team