This is an exercise in which the participants, usually working in teams, are required to reflect on the organisation’s response to one or more hypothetical scenarios. It is a form of 'what if..?' analysis.
It can, if approached with critical thinking and rigour, be a useful way of familiarising teams with their plans and arrangements. More importantly, it can be used to test the assumptions that are built into those arrangements. Critical thinking and constructive challenge are the key notes, to avoid the common fault of teams becoming too ready to accept their own optimistic rationalisations.
To achieve the desired outcome they do need external, and expert, facilitation and reporting. They also need good design and imagination. These exercises are normally designed and delivered by a single expert.
This is a short and sharp product, designed to give the customer a basic overview of their incident and crisis management capability. This will be consistent with the time available and the price. It will not be an in-depth analysis.
It will answer these questions. Have your teams demonstrated that they:
We will also provide a short, tabulated post-exercise report that will give a professionally-informed answer to these questions – on the basis of what was observed in the activity. It will also identify areas for development – on the same basis.
We deliver a 3-hour intervention, comprising:
We will produce a post-exercise report, covering key learning points and observations, with recommendations.
If your organisation would benefit from an EPC exercise, whatever the scale of requirement, please get in touch with us today.