How to Conduct Powerful Exercises,
Every Time
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Hybrid - on-demand & live streaming
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Phil Lambert
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Next Class:
Jan 11th & 12th
Student will also learn how to establish buy-in and support for exercises and how to get people to show up!
Course is highly interactive and practical.
Learn not only what exercises are, but how to deliver powerful exercises, every time.
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Hybrid / On-demand Instruction and live instructor-led Virtual Workshop
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Interactive hands-on
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2 Live Days, 2.5 hours per day
On-Demand 3 hours total -
Certificate & CEU's Awarded
Most business continuity planners face a unique set of challenges when it comes to designing and conducting a disaster simulation exercise. Exercises then become the most neglected activity when planning, yet the most powerful in achieving resiliency outcomes.
This course will take the guesswork out of the design, development, and facilitation of an exercise. We walk you through the process step by step. That way, you can stop running in circles and earn the confidence and gain the expertise you need.
Design
Develop
Facilitate
Celebrate
Did you know that an exercise is a training event. As a matter of fact, it is the most effective way to engage people, to make training concepts stick, and to increase crisis response capabilities. People will also walk away with more buy-in and ownership for your resiliency program. Come and learn how to design, develop, facilitate, debrief, and follow up on simulated disaster exercises and walk away with confidence because you’ll have the tools you need and have hands-on experience.
The most powerful exercises allows results to emerge rather than be orchestrated.
You need training from an experienced expert who cares about the problems you are facing.
For the last 23 years, we’ve become experts in taking the complexity of exercises and making it simple to understand, logical to remember, and easy to communicate. We have passed these best-of-the-best secrets to hundreds of others. That’s why our students trust us with their education.
Training Objectives
-How to gain and maintain buy-in and support for your BC Program
-How
to design, develop, facilitate, and celebrate disaster simulation exercises
-How to design several different training sessions for easy instruction
-Recognize
and differentiate functional, experiential, and immersive training strategies
-Understand
the role and importance of exercising in a BC Program
-Employ the 6 types of exercises
that best serves the results you want
-Demonstrate how adult learning principles are the
key to success.
-Learn how to facilitate experiential exercises and leverage the optimal learning environment / the debrief
-Balance
the scenario driven experience and the debrief that follows to optimize
participant’s learning
-Optimize engagement of participants
-Reinforce learning with constructive questioning, feedback, and debrief
-Create and prescribe all aspects of exercise, debrief, and post exercise activities
-Distinguish strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of in-room, virtual, and hybrid exercise presentations
-Employ action items collection, assignment, due date, and follow up strategy
-Develop participant exercise worksheet, how to leverage for program maturity, and use
-Manage conversation and collaboration to keep people on tract
-Close each session on a high note
Workshop Agenda
Phase I – Pre-exercise Activities
Skill 1 - Understanding Exercise
Fundamentals
Adults learn by doing, by
engaging what they have just learned and to put into action. The experiential
exercise is a vehicle that goes beyond the traditional lecture and creates a
learning environment suitable for adults and facilitates greater levels of learning,
application, and retention. Exercises does require higher levels of
participation and the processing of data learned through their
experiences.
This Skill has 8 sessions:
Skill 2 – How to Design an Exercise
Designing an exercise might seem intimidating
to some, so let’s go over a simple process that will help to set the right
balance of presentation and interaction.
This Skill has 8 sessions:
Skill 3 – How to Develop an Exercise
Once the initial goals and outcomes are set,
now it’s time to work on the development of numerous materials that will
facilitate participation by those in the room and ensure the exercise
success.
This Skill has 9 sessions:
Skill 4 - How to Facilitate Powerful Exercises
Facilitation is an essential key to the success of the exercise. The
power of facilitation creates the space, the time, and the conditions for
people to think together, create together, solve problems together, and to
improve their crisis response capabilities. Exercises allows results to emerge
rather than be orchestrated.
This Skill has 6
sessions:
Skill 5 – How to Debrief an Exercise
A Debrief is not designed to fix problems but
to extend the learning opportunity for participants and to identify and
document strengths, gaps, problems, deficiencies, weaknesses, and omissions in
the response and recovery processes and sequences, and to suggest changes to
their strategies, resources, and plans.
This Skill has 7 sessions:
Phase III – Post Exercise Activities
Skill 6 – How to Follow-up an
Exercise
Following up on an exercise is central to
continued change, improvement, and maturity. All the investment of time,
energy, and money into the exercise, its easy to let up now that it’s over and
not follow up as well as we should. This skill will teach you a simple way to
continually follow-up well and to establish the results you are looking
for.
This Skill has 3 sessions:
Skill 7 – How to Conduct Powerful Virtual
Exercises
It’s known that most people prefer and enjoy
the in-classroom training much better than another virtual meeting. I never
imagined that I would be delivering hundreds of hours of virtual training,
webinars and courses from my home office. Virtual is here, and its here to
stay. Embrace the change, do your homework, improve your skills, and you too
can produce and facilitate Powerful Exercises virtually.
This Skill has 6 sessions:
Skill 8 – How to Measure & Report
What Matters
Measuring and reporting are integral
functions within success organizations. Reports reflect the conditions,
strengths, viability, and the progress of an initiative. Learn how to determine
what is important to measure, how to measure it, and then how best to report it
to achieve influence.
This Skill has 6 sessions:
Skill 1 - Understanding Exercise Fundamentals
Adults learn by doing, by engaging what they have just learned and to put into action. The experiential exercise is a vehicle that goes beyond the traditional lecture and creates a learning environment suitable for adults and facilitates greater levels of learning, application, and retention. Exercises does require higher levels of participation and the processing of data learned through their experiences.
This Skill has 8 sessions:
Skill 2 – How to Design an Exercise
Designing an exercise might seem intimidating to some, so let’s go over a simple process that will help to set the right balance of presentation and interaction.
This Skill has 8 sessions:
Skill 3 – How to Develop an Exercise
Once the initial goals and outcomes are set, now it’s time to work on the development of numerous materials that will facilitate participation by those in the room and ensure the exercise success.
This Skill has 9 sessions:
Skill 4 - How to Facilitate Powerful Exercises
Facilitation is an essential key to the success of the exercise. The
power of facilitation creates the space, the time, and the conditions for
people to think together, create together, solve problems together, and to
improve their crisis response capabilities. Exercises allows results to emerge
rather than be orchestrated.
This Skill has 6 sessions:
Skill 5 – How to Debrief an Exercise
A Debrief is not designed to fix problems but to extend the learning opportunity for participants and to identify and document strengths, gaps, problems, deficiencies, weaknesses, and omissions in the response and recovery processes and sequences, and to suggest changes to their strategies, resources, and plans.
This Skill has 7 sessions:
Phase III – Post Exercise Activities
Skill 6 – How to Follow-up an Exercise
Following up on an exercise is central to continued change, improvement, and maturity. All the investment of time, energy, and money into the exercise, its easy to let up now that it’s over and not follow up as well as we should. This skill will teach you a simple way to continually follow-up well and to establish the results you are looking for.
This Skill has 3 sessions:
Skill 7 – How to Conduct Powerful Virtual Exercises
It’s known that most people prefer and enjoy the in-classroom training much better than another virtual meeting. I never imagined that I would be delivering hundreds of hours of virtual training, webinars and courses from my home office. Virtual is here, and its here to stay. Embrace the change, do your homework, improve your skills, and you too can produce and facilitate Powerful Exercises virtually.
This Skill has 6 sessions:
What You Get with the Course
All worksheets, checklist, narratives, outlines, scenarios, injects, and forms in Microsoft® Suite format
Narrative with injects, exercise timing, participant worksheets, and debrief script for a fire exercise
We will share the slide deck in PDF format because of licensing restrictions on video, photos, graphics, and charts.
90-day access to the recorded sessions - Continuing access to on-demand sessions
Things to Know
Over
the course of two consecutive days, you will spend time live facilitated virtual training on how to design, develop, facilitate, and celebrate training sessions focused on
how to conduct powerful exercises, every time. Also, 2 to 3 hours will be required for pre-course reading
and homework.
This course will be delivered online, in a technology savvy virtual classroom environment by a live facilitator and coach. You will participate in the live classroom, complete homework assignments, and collaborate with others in discussion groups.
How to Conduct Powerful Exercises, Every Time
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