Play it now,
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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