Your recovery exercising and training will never be the same.
Achieve a quality experience with the BetterContinuity Recovery Exercise Video Program by adding movie-like realism to your tabletop exercise. Our video approach, modified to reflect your company’s identity, creates a memorable image that serves as a springboard for your team’s activities. Lead your organization through a mock disaster that begins like any other typical day in the office, when suddenly the alarm sounds and your office is evacuated. Watch as executives respond and recovery teams go into action. Evaluate your teams’ preparedness as information about the incident unfolds piece by piece. Uncover areas that would hinder your organization from a successful recovery. Systematically address difficult decisions as the disaster escalates into a full recovery of operations. Validate your recovery plans and strategies during every phase of a disaster. Bring your exercise discussions to a new level and maximize training benefit as you test recovery teams in how they respond. Interactive video-based training engages participants and enhances your exercise benefit.

Exercise Program

The exercise program has been designed to provide a consistent approach to developing, facilitating, and reporting on your exercises. The exercise package is comprised of four components:

Exercise Video: The video is in a DVD format and can be played on a common DVD player or a computer with DVD software. The video is comprised of six segments that begin with the incident itself and end with resuming normal business operations. The video systematically takes you through a disaster with each segment designed to initiate appropriate discussion. The end of each video segment contains a narrator who provides an incident update to the participants.

The video is customized to reflect your company’s identity, by displaying, mentioning, and referencing your company throughout the video. Exercise participants feel as if their watching their own recovery teams adding to the sense of realism and creating a sense of ownership. See Standard and Enhanced Video Customization for further information.

Participant Workbook: Keep your recovery exercise on track and focused on your objectives using the provided participant workbook. The workbook accompanies the video and allows you to systematically structure the exercise to meet your recovery objectives. The workbook allows you to pose questions specific to your audience and allows the exercise facilitator to focus on specific discussion points. Bring closure to your exercise and capture the events learning’s using the Debrief section of the workbook.

Exercise Development Guide: To aide in the development of your recovery exercise a developer’s guide is included which discusses several techniques. Examples are provided for each technique including over 200 questions representing over 30 subject areas, group activities to engage participants, role play suggestions to demonstrate first hand your recovery strategies, and many other techniques designed to engage your exercise participants and get the greatest benefit from your exercises.