Exercise Management

At Stretch Think, we do exercise management a little differently

While regulations such as the SOCI Act does not explicitly mandate exercises, organisations subject to the Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program (CIRMP) for example, commonly conduct exercises to test and validate their risk management, incident management, and crisis management arrangements.

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Exercise Design

As professional educators and researchers, we provide an innovative approach to exercise design that offers a toolkit distinguishing between Testing, Training and Experimental exercises.

We often use a lean scenario driven exercise design to maximise the time available for executives and boards.

The variation of our exercising approach offers characteristics that can be considered by exercise developers and assist in designing context specific exercises in a goal and evaluation orientated manner.

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Exercise Facilitation

When we facilitate your exercise, it not just a flick and tick approach to meet compliance requirements.

In both test and training exercises we use real-time coaching techniques during the exercise to enhance your crisis management team’s capabilities.

We can also embed continuous improvement processes so you can experiment with new and innovative crisis management approaches that can be trialled during the exercise.

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Exercise Evaluation

As professional researchers, we can offer the latest qualitative and quantitative evaluation methodologies to provide the rigour for your exercise evaluation.

Our exercise evaluation methods allow you to benchmark your organisation's future performance.

We can use off the shelf evaluation tools such as our decision-making survey or develop bespoke evaluation tools aligned to your organisation’s specific requirements.

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Some key considerations are:

• What is the goal of your exercise, would you like to train, test, or experiment?
• Who would you like to exercise, your operations teams, executive management, the board, external stakeholders, a mix of these?
  

At Stretch Think we can conduct any combination of the above, including any requirements to meet any regulatory obligations, depending upon the exercise maturity of your organisation.

If you would like to uplift to try something a little different in your exercise program, while simultaneously uplifting the capability of your business, get in touch with us to discuss your specific requirements.