Why we believe a simulated exercise approach is best.
In the following blog, we explore how simulated exercise can benefit your organisation. By building trust, inducting new colleagues, updating knowledge and learn how to best manage a crisis.
What’s one of the most important things when you manage a crisis or incident?
It’s having people around you who can work together and that each of them know exactly what their role is. Trust is key – you have to be able to rely on each other. To know that you can all pull together and at times lean on each other, to see you through to the other side. How can we build trust?
In this current COVID-19 world, building team trust is complicated somewhat. Some businesses and organisations have welcomed new members of staff who have never met their colleagues in person. While Zoom or face-to-face meetings are great for the environment and travel expenses, they are not so great for team building and sharing learning experiences.
The world is changing dramatically, and that includes learning. Your teams still need to develop and learn how to cope in a crisis. Refreshing existing knowledge and working through new scenarios. Ensuring that everyone is up to date with procedures and plans, is still vital. Perhaps more so now we know the extent to which our world can change.
A pandemic changes businesses
The current pandemic may have forced a change to your business continuity and crisis plans. A simulated exercise will enable teams to gain understanding and learn practical applications of these changes. You will have a unique opportunity to gauge the practically of your plans in a crisis, testing that they are truly fit for purpose.
Continuing to invest in your teams through the pandemic will have a number of results. Including; keeping their skills and knowledge up to date, team-building in times where the team is no longer together, enabling new team members to integrate into the existing team and increasing trust in the teams’ decision making. An online simulated exercise bonds a team while allowing them to develop and hone their crisis management skills.
How a Continuity West simulated exercise can help you build trust and manage a crisis?
At Continuity West we have been successfully running simulated exercises for our customers for a number of years. Here at Continuity West, we have developed our classroom exercises to run online and still be as impactful and full of learning as before.
Continuity West are business continuity and risk management specialists, and we bring all of our experience managing incidents to the exercise and your teams. We provide the knowledge and learning environment and help learners develop their understanding. Learners skills will be developed by putting knowledge and understanding into practice. Our exercises also test attitudes, seeing if your people engage with the learning or try to go their own way.
Our simulated exercises will test identified plans or procedures against the desired outcomes and the exercise will become more challenging as the exercise progresses.
So don’t let a little thing like an on-going pandemic stop you bringing your team together for learning and team-building!