®: our crisis exercises & simulations.
You don't prepare for a crisis by reading about it. You prepare by living through it, in a controlled setting that allows for mistakes and learning.
See the five phases of an exercise
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COMPACTRAIN® isn't just another crisis exercise. Your teams don't watch a scenario play out on a screen: they live inside it — a staged environment, sound and visual pressure, and, depending on the scenario, several levels engaged at once.
It's about building, session after session, a genuinely robust crisis unit — individually trained profiles, and above all a team that stays coordinated and effective even under difficult conditions.
Because a good decision in a crisis doesn't just depend on individual skill: it depends on the team's ability to stay aligned and effective, together.
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Each session is captured on video and audio. This material feeds into TRACE® analysis, our method for objectifying your teams' progress beyond first impressions.
The goal: to durably professionalize a crisis unit — to know each other better, coordinate better, and improve session after session.
- ✦ Adaptive scenario: the session follows the participants’ responses
- ✦ Sensory immersion: visual and audio injects, played out in a staged environment
- ✦ Human factor: emotions and cognitive biases surfaced, then worked on
- ✦ Plans and procedures tested under realistic conditions
Three differences you only notice in practice.
Written in advance, unfolding the same way regardless of the team's behavior.
Branches in real time based on your decisions — no two sessions alike.
Injects sent by email or phone — the team stays in front of a screen, in its usual environment.
Injects played out in the space, and a setup that can bring together several sites or several levels — field, management, crisis unit.
Based on participants' memory and impressions.
Based on the session's video and audio capture, analyzed using the TRACE® method.
How a ® exercise unfolds
A living scenario, played out in a staged environment, matched to your sector and your teams' level of maturity.
Scoping
Objectives, scope and priority risks defined with your leadership teams. This is also where the setup is settled: the sites involved, the levels that take part — field, management, crisis unit — and the intensity we aim for.
Trigger
The first event walks into the room — a sound, an image, a call that will not wait. Teams discover the situation at the moment it reaches them.
Escalation
The scenario branches on your decisions, and the injects stack up: media pressure, reports coming up from the field, partial or conflicting information. The noise rises, the time shrinks.
Decision & coordination
Making the call out loud, in front of the team, with what is known at that moment. And moving information between levels, and between sites when the scenario involves more than one, while the situation keeps moving.
TRACE® debrief
The session is replayed from the video and audio capture: key moments time-stamped, decisions and coordination analysed on screen.
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Scenario written with you, TRACE® debrief included
What happens after the debrief.
The exercise carries on once the room is empty. What the session brought to light is measured, then carried into your documents, your organisation and the next scenario.
Comparison
We analyse every session with the same framework. Progress then shows against constant markers.
Updates
We go back over your documents on the points the session revealed — quick-reference sheets, decision chains, alert procedures — and correct them before the next time.
Organisation
The make-up of the crisis unit and the split of roles change too: who decides, who feeds information, who speaks to the outside.
Calibration
The next scenario starts from what the last one showed. What held firm moves to the background; what gave way returns in another form.