Tabletop Exercises for Multiple Disruptions

graphic header for tabletop exercises concerning planning for multiple disruptions

You arrive at work to find the FBI waiting for you with a search warrant. But that's only the beginning.

Your day continues with injured workers, bomb threats, forest fires, threatening weather...

Multiple Disruptions for Facility Management

Multiple Disruptions for Facility Management

Overview: Participants are the facility management team for a fictional company who also manages their multi-tenant building. As you arrive at work, you are met by the FBI who are serving a search warrant on one of your tenants. The bad day continues with chemical spills, bomb threats, sick tenants, injured co-workers and the media at your door. How would you handle such crisis, especially when today is "Take Your Child to Work Day." See how your facility team would respond. 

Exercise Focus: Emergency Response / Crisis Communications / Public Relations 

Multiple Disruptions for Fairs and Expositions

Multiple Disruptions for Fairs and Expositions

Overview: You are in the middle of your morning Fair Management Team meeting. The midway rides passed inspection and the concessions are in order. The forest fires are counties away and shouldn’t impact the fair this weekend. You are expecting record crowds due to the rodeo, Dixie Chicks concert and fireworks. How would the Fair Management Team handle the counterfeit tickets that are appearing, the gang members that show up, the ride injuries that occur with a mother threatening to sue, a mysterious mass illness that is spreading and the looming forest fire? See how your management team will respond.

Exercise Focus: Emergency Response / Crisis Communications / Public Relations 

Multiple Disruptions for Health Care

Multiple Disruptions for Health Care

Overview: Participants are the Hospital Incident Command Structure (HICS) of a fictional hospital. Your team is faced with staff shortages, infrastructure problems, water contamination, a prisoner patient, and protesters - how would a team handle such a disastrous day, especially when a medical helicopter crashes on the hospital's roof. See how your facility engineers will respond. 

Exercise Focus: Emergency Response / Crisis Communications / Public Relations  

Multiple Disruptions for Meeting and Event Planners

Multiple Disruptions for Meeting and Event Planners

Overview: Participants are the meetings & event management team of their trade association’s three-day annual conference. The meeting has an unfriendly demonstration, looming severe weather threatening all outside activities, loss of the keynote speaker, conference attendees complaining of a stomach illness and the news media begin to swarm. How would a team handle such a disaster, especially with your Senior Meetings Director injured and a drunken board member arrested?  See how your meetings management staff will respond.

Exercise Focus: Emergency Response / Crisis Communications / Media Relations

Multiple Disruptions for Parks and Recreation Departments

Multiple Disruptions for Parks and Recreation DepartmentsOverview: You are in the middle of your morning team meeting. The food vendors passed inspection are ready to go. The forest fires are counties away and shouldn’t impact the 4th of July Festival this weekend. You are expecting a good crowd due to the concerts and fireworks. How would a Parks & Rec Management Team and volunteers handle the missing child, an influx of gang members, a domestic dispute that results in injuries, destruction of property and death, a mysterious mass illness that is spreading plus the looming forest fire? See how your management team will respond. 

Exercise Focus: Emergency Response / Crisis Communications / Public Relations 

Multiple Disruptions for Property Management

Exercise for Multiple Disruptions for Building Management

Overview: Participants are the property management team for a fictional multi-tenant building.  As you arrive at work, you  are met with the FBI who are serving a search warrant on one of your tenants.  The bad day continues with chemical spills, bomb threats, sick tenants, injured co-workers and the media at your door.  How would a team handle such a disaster, especially when today is "Take Your Child to Work Day." See how your management staff will respond. 

Exercise Focus:  Emergency Response / Security / Building Operations

Multiple Disruptions for Security Firms

Multiple Disruptions for Security Firms

Overview: Participants are the security team for a fictional multi-tenant building. As you arrive at work, you are met by the FBI who are executing a search warrant on one of your tenants. The bad day continues with chemical spills, bomb threats, sick and injured tenants and the media at your door. How would a team handle such a disaster, especially when today is "Take Your Child to Work Day." See how your staff will respond. 

Exercise Focus: Emergency Response / Security / Evacuation

Multiple Disruptions for Temporary Staffing Company

Multiple Disruptions for Temporary Staffing Companies

Overview: Participants are the management team for a fictional temporary staffing company and today just isn't their day. There is a virus affecting the link to the web server, one of your temporary staffing employees didn't show up for work at a job, another showed up drunk, two of them employees are caught conducting illegal activities with one of your largest customers.  How would a team handle such a day, especially with the boss away on vacation and a looming severe thunderstorm?  See how your management staff will respond.

Exercise Focus: Emergency Response / Crisis Communications / Public Relations

Multiple Disruptions for Warehousing and Records Management

Multiple Disruptions for Warehousing and Records Management

Overview: Participants are the management team of a fictional Records Management & Storage Company. The company has finally signed the big storage account they’re been working on for months. There would be celebrating if it weren't for the missing data files, a fire in the break room, a driver/staff shortage, IT problems, an employee accident - and that’s all before the tornado hits. How would a team handle such disasters, especially now with injured employees, damaged delivery trucks, and a power outage?  See how your management staff will respond. 

Exercise Focus:  Emergency Response / Building Operations / Crisis Communications / Disaster Recovery / Customer Service

Multiple Disruptions for Water and Amusement Parks

Multiple Disruptions for Water and Amusement Parks

Overview: Your Labor Day at the waterpark is going from bad to worse. A woman has a heart attack, there is a breach into a secured area, and a mysterious stomach flu seems to be growing rapidly. But then things really get bad when a child goes missing. See how your management staff would handle a Code Adam situation while a domestic dispute turns violent. Will your shorted staffed team be able to handle a day like this? 

Exercise Focus: Emergency Response / Crisis Communications / Public Relations

Multiple Disruptions I for Hotels and Conference Centers

Multiple Disruptions for Hotels and Conference Centers

NOTE: There are multiple Tabletop Exercises for Multiple Disruptions.  This is the first.

Overview: Participants are the management team of a fictional hotel and conference facility which is hosting a trade association’s three-day annual conference.  The meeting has an unfriendly demonstration, looming severe weather threatening all outside activities, conference attendees complaining of a stomach illness and the news media beginning to swarm.  How would a team handle such a disaster, especially with the association's Senior Meetings Director injured and a drunk board member arrested?  See how your management staff will respond...

Exercise Focus: Emergency Response / Crisis Communications / Customer Service / Security

Multiple Disruptions III for Hotels and Conference Centers

Multiple Disruptions for Hotels and Conference Centers

NOTE: There are multiple Tabletop Exercises for Multiple Disruptions.  This is the third.

Overview: Participants are the management team of a fictional hotel and conference facility which is hosting a political and very sensitive 'Town Hall' meeting. The hotel has problems with the protesters outside, a food borne illness and undrinkable water - and that's just the first shift. When the second shift arrives they are faced with a rock bands arrival and all the screaming female fans that try everything to gain access to the hotel, a staff shortage, and a missing child. See how your management staff will respond. 

Exercise Focus: Emergency Response / Crisis Communications / Customer Service / Security