In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses how to create and conduct a rewarding crisis management exercise, providing tips to help you build a rich and rewarding exercise remotely or in person. Related Episodes & Blog Posts Blog Post: 5 Ways Coaching Can Help Your Business …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #132: 7 Business Continuity Exercise Scenarios
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses 7 Business Continuity Exercise Scenarios that you can use to prepare your organization for disruption. Related Episodes & Blog Posts Blog Post: How to Evaluate Plan Effectiveness After Active Shooter Exercises Blog Post: Crisis Exercises: Why are they important? …
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How to Create and Conduct a Rewarding Crisis Management Exercise
You’ve settled on a crisis management framework to understand your goals in creating a crisis management plan. You’ve written your plan. I can’t stress enough how important it is for you to exercise that plan. Below I’ve included tips to help you think through a rich and rewarding exercise—even if your team is working remotely. …
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Engaging your Board of Directors on your Crisis Communications Strategy
All organizations face risk. Whether your entity is large or small, publicly traded or privately held, for profit or non-profit, global or local, at some point it will face a crisis. How you plan for, handle, recover from, and assess a crisis can significantly impact your organization, including its short-term business operations, reputation, long-term financial …
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #82: Speed in a Crisis
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses the need for rapid decision making and communications during a crisis or incident. Reflecting on a year of crisis exercises, Bryan discusses crisis management, crisis communications, crisis management frameworks, crisis plans, crisis plan annexes, prepared crisis communications messages, holding statements …
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #61: Prepping for an Exercise
Once you’ve made the decision to hold a crisis management exercise, how should the exercise team and participants begin planning for the exercise? There’s a lot to do in order to ensure that the goals of the exercise are achieved! In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser along …
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Managing Uncertainty – Episode #40: Why we exercise our plans
Why do crisis or business continuity exercises? Are exercises really that valuable to maturing a crisis management or business continuity strategy? In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser takes on that topic and more. Topics discussed include effective exercises, tabletop exercises, simulation exercises, integrated exercises, business continuity, crisis …
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Managing Uncertainty Podcast: Episode #19 – Exercises are boring
Exercises are an important part of preparedness and the lifecycle of crisis management, business continuity, or communications planning. But most exercises are just plain boring. In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser and Senior Consultant Jennifer Otremba talk about why exercises are often so boring and techniques to “spice them up” for your …
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