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Inspire Your Team with Our Team Building Exercises

Team building exercises have become a cornerstone of corporate development, but not all exercises are created equal. At Evocatus, we’ve redefined the traditional team-building event, offering scenario-based exercises that foster genuine collaboration, develop strategic thinking, and build resilience. Our unique approach ensures that teams leave not just entertained, but empowered and ready to tackle real-world challenges together.

How to Lift a Strategic Development Plan Off the Page and Into Your Team’s Thinking

A Strategic Development Plan is often the cornerstone of any business’s ambition for growth, resilience, and long-term success. But how do you ensure this well-crafted document is more than just words on a page? At Evocatus Consulting, we specialise in helping organisations bring their strategies to life using scenario-based exercises, Tabletop Exercises, and Decision Making Games. These tools not only engage your team but also prepare them to execute the plan effectively, even in the face of uncertainty.

Integrating Crisis Communication Into Your Contingency Planning

In a crisis, how you communicate can make or break your organisation’s reputation. Whether it’s a data breach, a product recall, or an operational failure, responding swiftly and effectively can contain the fallout and help rebuild trust. That’s where crisis communication comes in. At Evocatus, we specialise in using scenario-based exercises and comprehensive contingency planning to prepare organisations for the unpredictable. Our approach ensures your team is ready to handle public scrutiny and navigate difficult situations with confidence.

Scenario Analysis Explained

The ability to anticipate and respond to future events is critical for both business survival and success. Scenario analysis, a tool used by Evocatus, helps organisations to explore different potential futures through structured, scenario-based exercises. By analysing a range of possible outcomes, teams can develop strategies that, consider risks and opportunities, enhance resilience and ultimately enable business growth.

Key challenges with change management and how to overcome them

Leading an organisation or business through successful change is not easy. Change management difficulties are common throughout all professional fields of work. With experience in training and leading the heaviest and fastest-moving forces from the prairies of Alberta, West Canada to helping the South West of England with business development planning and training solutions, we’ve seen and overcome multiple challenges with change management. In this article, we’ll cover the most common change management difficulties and how you can overcome them.

How incident response tabletop scenarios can benefit your organisation

Making sure your organisation has what it takes to survive long-term can come down to planning for the unexpected. With each industry and a range of sectors against a number of concerns or potential incidents, learning how to react is critical and can be paramount to your organisation’s resilience.

How to maximise productivity with teamwork and problem solving

It’s easy to think you can employ the right people to do a good job and the rest will take care of itself. However, we believe that strong teamwork problem solving can have a beneficial effect on productivity and deliver on business outputs as a result.

Approaching organisational change

Organisational change can take place in many businesses at key times of their business growth. Change is good because it usually means it’s for the benefit of future success but it involves the alteration of a major component. These alterations could be a number of things including the culture, technologies, infrastructure or internal processes.

How to build a robust mitigation plan

Nothing great comes without risk, right? The unfortunate thing about risks is that they usually appear without much prior notice, which can make your business or project vulnerable. That’s why it’s important to be ready and well-prepared with a robust mitigation plan.

When fire evacuation plans go wrong

It’s one of those nightmares that you fear. There’s a fire alarm systems test at your place of business and your evacuation procedures have gone terribly wrong so you really need to assess everything and get it right for the future should the worst ever happen.