Are you ready to excel in your Organization’s Drills or Exercises? Effective stakeholder communications is an increasingly important element of a successful response. Regulators know this, and your capability to effectively support the Joint Information Center is becoming increasingly measured. Will your team’s performance meet regulators’ objectives? Will you effectively demonstrate your readiness to respond?
I bring 22 years’ experience with multiple actual events and exercises to my exercise support role. Effective Exercise Support includes the following elements:
- Exercise planning: Any or all of the following elements.
- Review of previous exercise JIC and Liaison lessons learned
- Establishment of exercise communication objectives
- Development of JIC and Liaison injects to test to objectives
- Exercise preparation: Joint Information Center or Liaison training.
- Preparing you and your communication team to work well with other exercise participants through specific training modules
- Initial communication actions to establish a pre-JIC information flow
- JIC overview training for all participants
- Key function training for all participants
- JIC Position training for your communication leaders
- JIC Stand-down and Recovery Communication training
- Preparing you and your communication team to work well with other exercise participants through specific training modules
- Exercise participation: I join you at the exercise where I can provide support, coaching or even take on key response roles for you and your team.
- Coach you in your PIO, APIO or support role within the JIC
- Spot-train your on-location team members
- Support other JIC players in effective communication practices
- Staff Truth/Control to deliver injects and rate responses
- Post-Exercise services: To maximize the effectiveness of your investment in attending exercises, I can perform the following actions to enhance your future effectiveness.
- Evaluating your overall Exercise performance against objectives
- Review Exercise Hot Wash
- Creating improvement plan for implementation by your team
- Post-exercise training sessions to address identified needs