Testing your crisis plan

You've got a business continuity plan or maybe it's called a crisis or contingency plan. Everyone has a copy on their desk and you know that they all know what to do when a crisis arrives. You may even have a crisis communications plan to sit alongside it. But is it only the communications team who have access to it? Has it been tested?

If the answer to the last question is "No", then think again. Having a plan isn't the same as having one that is proven to work. The last thing you need to find out is that it doesn't when you are up to your ears dealing with the media, irate shareholders and frightened staff.

Indigo can test your plan through an interactive scenario, designed to run in real-time and to test your organisation's response in a realistic manner by exerting the pressures and demands likely in a crisis. We create a situation (on paper or DVD) that puts your employees in the middle of a major crisis - then we start playing it for real.

Journalists call, interviews are done, articles are written and you can see how your responses influence external perceptions of the crisis. If you want to push your team to the limit, we can also run scenarios out of hours - the time most crises actually happen. Contact us to find out more.