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Rapid decision simulation · ~5 minutes

Exercise Mercury

It's Thursday, 06:15. A red weather warning has just landed, the power is already flickering, and local radio wants answers before you've had coffee. Six decisions stand between you and the evening news. You have 45 seconds for each one.

Situation

You are the senior leader on duty at an organisation that delivers essential services to the public. A severe storm — high winds, a month's rain, widespread power cuts — arrives in hours. Information will arrive as it does in real incidents: incomplete, from multiple directions, and faster than you'd like.

There are no trick questions — but there are consequences. Every choice is logged, timed, and debriefed at the end, exactly as it would be in a facilitated exercise.

Exercise conventions

INJECTS
6, delivered in sequence
TEMPO
45 seconds per decision
NO ANSWER
logged as a decision too
ASSESSED
5 crisis capabilities
DEBRIEF
scored, with facilitator notes
MERCURY · live Inject 1 of 6 06:15
0:45  

Your call —

Exercise complete · hot debrief

Debrief

0%

Capability scores

Decision-by-decision review

Why this matters

You just made six decisions in five minutes.
A real incident asks for hundreds.

This taster used a generic scenario and a solo player. A facilitated exercise uses your plans, your people and your most plausible bad day — and finds the gaps while they're still cheap to fix.

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