Readiness
How do you and your team measure up? Will your plans, processes, technology, procedures and personnel collectively work in a incident? Organisational biases and individual unconscious motivations can cloud an organisation’s capability to objectively review, assess, challenge and evaluate their capabilities.
Our operational readiness, training and exercising services ensure that risks are identified early on, your plan(s) are validated and your people and stakeholders work effectively together. From development of your Readiness, Training and Exercising strategy, delivering organisational training, producing Exercises that grow in complexity as your arrangements develop, we will create a programme to match your risk appetite, the maturity of your arrangements, delivery plan and personnel as well as your budget
What Our Clients Say About Us
Explore how Controlled Events has helped clients across sectors manage live incidents, strengthen readiness, and deliver safer, more resilient operations.
Challenges
- Exercises are a significant investment and can either build or damage manager and stakeholder confidence. Off-the-shelf training often lacks relevance, offering little connection to your actual plans.
- Low-complexity sessions can lead to participant fatigue and poor engagement. External support can help or hinder depending on their capability and judgement.
- Without internal capacity or objective facilitation, your organisation may struggle to debrief incidents or exercises effectively—limiting learning and improvement.
How We Can Help
We’ve delivered training, exercises and debriefs across sectors including government, construction, transport, telecoms, housing, fire and rescue, and major events. This includes full programmes such as the Readiness, Training and Exercising strategy for government projects, construction clients, and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
- Our training is tailored to your audience, using proven content and aligning it with your plans and procedures.
- Exercises feel real — engaging, challenging and memorable.
- Sessions are delivered with empathy and evidence, focusing on improvements while recognising success.
Exercises: Simulations, Table-Top, Command Post and Live Exercises
Tired, one dimensional Exercises supported by slides and a talking head no longer cut it with today’s audience. The majority of our Exercises are Simulations – involving a blend of media including ‘pseudo media’ to replicate the stakeholder, customer and public pressures on your organisation using the TeamXP platform directly to player’s devices with media support from Capital B Media. This approach enables us to run fully remote Exercises with shared scenario content and break out rooms for different command groups/experts and real time evaluation tools.
Whether you require a simple Table-Top, multi-level Command Post or even a Live Exercise, our delivery approach usually involves five key aspects:
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- Testing or at least validating single components of readiness (eg functions and processes or an existing decision making group).
- Using our experience to create a challenging and constructive readiness programme for your team.
- Imparting our extensive resources gathered over ten years and our subject matter experts to design bespoke materials for your session(s).
- Utilising technology (where appropriate) to capture decisions and feedback from single- or multi-sites/rooms, using our tried and tested information management platform.
- Incorporating lessons identified from your readiness programme into revised work programmes, documentation, activities, tasks, interdependencies and milestones.
Other Services
Discover how our wider support can help you prepare, respond and recover.