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Reducing the Gap Between Decisions and Actions
Developing a Plan Activation Checklist
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Patrick Van Horne
Developing the Incident Situation Report
5 Tips for Information Sharing During Disaster and Crisis Response
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Patrick Van Horne
Comprehensive Planning for Active Threat Incidents
Preparing Communities for Immediate Action and Long-Term Recovery from Attacks
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Patrick Van Horne
The Functional Exercise
What is a Functional Exercise and When Should You Conduct One?
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Patrick Van Horne
Emergency Preparedness Drills
What is a Drill and When Should You Conduct One?
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Patrick Van Horne
Five Ways an Executive Can Deliver Powerful Opening Remarks
Moving Beyond a Generic Welcome Statement to Start an Exercise
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Patrick Van Horne
Opening the Tabletop Exercise
Using a Player Briefing to Set the Stage for a Successful Event
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Patrick Van Horne
The Tabletop Exercise
What is a “TTX” and When Should You Conduct One?
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Patrick Van Horne
Hand-to-Hand Combat and The Danger of Entering Condition Red
In December 2013, Army Major Tyson Walsh stopped an attack on Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan by identifying a person who stood out from the baseline…
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Patrick Van Horne
Reading Behavior In Conversation: Part 6
This is the sixth of a six-part exercise to read the behavior of both sides of a conversation using an incident where police officers were called to a…
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Patrick Van Horne
Reading Behavior In Conversation: Part 5
This is the fifth of a six-part exercise to read the behavior of both sides of a conversation using an incident where police officers were called to a…
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Patrick Van Horne
Reading Behavior In Conversation: Part 4
This is the fourth of a six-part exercise to read the behavior of both sides of a conversation using an incident where police officers were called to a…
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Patrick Van Horne
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