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before you live it later


Experience matters. Simulated experiences still count.

tabletop exercises Improve decision-making

Problem: Exercises are hard to design, time-consuming and often get pushed to the ‘Important but Non-Urgent’ catagory.

Solution: The Long Game Project helps with anything tabletop exercise related for your team to run successful and impactful tabletop exercises.

bUILD RESILIENCE AND
TEST STRATEGY

Practice decision-making in a low stakes
simulation

Learn to think differently

What are Tabletop Exercises?

Why Conduct Tabletop Exercises?

Tabletop exercises are structured, collaborative activities designed to test and enhance an organisation's preparedness for real-world events or scenarios.

These exercises simulate various situations, prompting participants to decide and solve problems based on their roles and responsibilities.

Tabletop simulation provides a low-risk, non-operational environment for participants to engage in open discussions, explore alternative strategies, and analyze their potential consequences without the pressures of real-world consequences.

Tabletop exercising has become an essential tool for businesses across industries as they strive to manage complex challenges, assess their preparedness, and develop resilience in the face of potential crises. The benefits of conducting tabletop exercises include the following:

  • Improved Decision-Making: Allowing participants to practice making critical decisions and evaluating their outcomes, leading to more informed and adequate decision-making in real-world situations in actual feedback loops.

  • Enhanced Communication and Collaboration: Fostering teamwork, coordination, and communication among participants, ensuring seamless coordination and cooperation during actual events.

  • Identification of Gaps and Weaknesses: By simulating realistic scenarios, reveal areas for improvement in an organisation's policies, plans, and procedures, providing valuable insights for strengthening their resilience.

  • Training and Skill Development: Offer a unique opportunity for participants to develop and hone their skills in crisis management, problem-solving, and critical thinking.

  • Compliance and Regulatory Requirements: In some industries, exercising is a requirement for regulatory compliance, ensuring that organisations maintain a high level of preparedness for potential crises.

Our
Services

We provide a range of service streams and tools…

Do-it yourself

We provide supporting guide documents to learn and do it yourself. Access our scenario trove and document repository and engage our community space of other experts and members.

Workshops

Learn and upskill on tabletop exercising. Add a tool to your kit, or sharpen your exercising tools. Learn how to design and run exercises with your team.

advisory service

Our time for brainstorming, advising, and answering questions. This can include consultation about a strategy or design approach, reviewing what you already have, or teaching good design and facilitation skills.

Complete service

We can build and deliver a fully customisable solution. We can assist with all modular discovery, design, facilitation and reflection elements of an exercise for your team.

yOur
goals

Exploratory Thinking

Explore Alternate Futures

Role Play Scenarios

Test a Strategy

Team A/B Contingency Plans

Test a Hypothesis

Break an Assumption

Brainstorm Solutions

Engage Stakeholders

Resilience

Stress Test Current Practices

Simulate Responses

Red Teaming Defences

Discover Weaknesses

Decision-making

Practice Probabilistic Thinking

Uncover Biases/Heuristics

Naturalistic Decision Practice

Simulate Uncertainty, Pressure and Incomplete Information

Discover Unknown-Unknowns

Tabletop exercises offer flexible solutions to many problems and industries…

Meet

the team

DR DAN EPSTEIN
Medical doctor and tabletop expert

SANJANA KASHYAP
Management consultant & partnerships


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