Business Continuity

Exercising Plans

Practice makes perfect – and on this page you’ll find all the tools you need to help you get prepared and practise your plans. Talk to us if you have any questions about any of the products shown here or if you need something a little different.

Toolkits

Pick and mix your own kit to suit your desktop exercises, buy our off-the-shelf Fire Scenario Collection or let us help you create a bespoke kit to suit your scenario:

Audio

Select scenes to use as injects or pressure points, or choose from a library of sound effects to create your own package. We also produce audio training plays that help communicate key messages. Listen to a selection of audio pieces here.

Film

Pick a selection of scene setters and news bulletins to help create story-lines. View some of our film work here.

Print

Enhance your toolkit with mock newspapers, adding a further media dimension to your exercises.

Guides

We produce detailed scenarios and ‘how-to’ manuals to make facilitating your exercises simple.

The Fire Scenario Collection

We are delighted to announce the launch of a brand new, highly cost-effective Fire Scenario Exercise Toolkit. The first in a series of off-the-shelf toolkits designed to help facilitators and managers to heighten the realism of their exercise scenarios. Find more information and order here.

Bespoke

We produce bespoke kits with any scenario or collection of scenarios that are appropriate to your business. Contact us for more information or to view a sample.

Film

Scenario-based exercising films

We create scenario-specific films for exercising, useful for larger global organisations who wish to instil consistency in exercising around the globe. These can be produced with an on-screen facilitator and a full off-screen facilitation guide to save on travel budgets

Filming your exercises

We provide professional film crews to film your exercises with multiple cameras (if required) and edit the output into a useful permanent record to help inform your own training.

Latest News!

Watch the trailer for Practice Makes Perfect the latest training film made exclusively for the Business Continuity Institute. Please follow the BCI link on the homepage to order your copy.

Role-players

Actors

We provide fully-briefed professional actors to attend your exercise days and play a variety of roles from worried relatives of employees to walking wounded. Talented and convincing, these actors inject reality into any scenario based exercise.

Journalists

We provide professional journalists to inject a real-life ad-hoc media presence to large-scale exercises – a crucial component in board level exercising. We film all interaction and edit the output into a news package.

Guides and manuals

‘How-to’ Guides

We produce bespoke, easy-to-follow guidance documents and manuals which will lead you through the process of preparing for and running an exercise.

Facilitator guides

We script facilitator guides to accompany any exercise scenario with clear navigation and helpful trainer notes and script. Contact us for more information on guides and manuals.

Events

Plays, conferences and road shows

To help you launch and roll-out your exercising toolkits and really engage your Business Continuity practitioners, nothing works better than an event. We produce many bespoke events for a wide variety of clients to educate and motivate teams. Contact us for more information on events.