VENTEX ACADEMY / ACA-601Exercise · 60–90 minutes planning

An exercise should reveal problems, not perform maturity.

This learning path helps teams design a small, honest and assessable communication exercise. The outcome is not a certificate but a prioritised list of evidenced improvements.

Learning objective

Tabletop exercise design

Audience
  • Business continuity
  • Incident management
  • Security awareness and training
Working artefact

Tabletop exercise canvas

COURSE MODULES / 04

Four steps. One applicable outcome.

01MODULE

Exercise objective

One specific communication workflow is tested, not the entire organisation.

02MODULE

Scenario and injects

Events change time pressure, information state and trust progressively.

03MODULE

Observation

Observers record behaviour, times, questions and channel breaks without directing the team.

04MODULE

After-action review

Findings are connected to evidence, owner, due date and retest.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After the learning path, you can …

  1. 01Formulate a focused exercise objective
  2. 02Develop realistic injects and observations
  3. 03Turn lessons into reviewable actions
Sources and further depth
Pilot launch kitReadiness checkSolution: Business continuity

Exercises remain local to you. VENTEX receives no answers or assessment data from this open learning path.

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