Crisis Management Consulting

Every day something happens somewhere that causes the emergency management to pause with thanks that it didn’t happen here.  This short blog is a reminder that everyone of those events are GREAT SCENARIOS and can be used to conduct a mini training – especially while the news story is still warm.  Consider the events in Egypt – what if hundreds of people started marching around City Hall or the Corporate Headquarters or the Park in the Neighborhood or the Campus ?  And then the international media descended.   And then there were various random incidents.  And then there was looting.   And then people were missing?  And then VIPs showed up.  All in a day or two. 

What a great scenario – yes a little preposterous for most of us – but none-the-less great fodder on which to build a brief little table top exercise.  One of my clients holds a mini training monthly with the key leadership.  They bring in a what-if brief story-line based on something that has happened somewhere, adapt it to their situation and go through their EOP to identify their primary actions.  Doesn’t take them more than an hour – hardly any time building up the scenario and keeps them fresh on how to use their EOP.  They never let anyone else’s crisis go to waste.  Maybe you can too.