This document introduces a board game called "What's In Your Box?" designed to help businesses and organizations improve their resilience and emergency preparedness. The game uses scenarios and prompts to get participants thinking through practical planning for risks like fires, floods or other disruptions. Discussing responses as a group helps build understanding and identify collaborative solutions. It is meant to make resilience planning easy, enjoyable and effective. Participants end up with different ideas for their ideal emergency preparation box tailored to their needs, which can save money while promoting well-being. More information is available at the website listed or at an upcoming workshop on business resilience.
Yil Me Hu Spring 2024 - Nisqually Salmon Recovery Newsletter
What's in your box - Business Resillience
1. What’s In Your Box?
The Resilience & Emergency Preparation Game
Resilience for Businesses.
An initiative of MadeToLast
2. Resilience? The challenge
• Planning and Resilience is least attempted of Go
Green’s pillars.
• What does it mean?
• Goes against our human programming - not urgent
until catastrophic
• Paternalism – don’t worry!
• Media – false sense of what’s going on
We needed to make resilience easy,
enjoyable and effective for you, your staff
and all those who depend on you
- using psychology and a board game.
3. 3 Kinds of Business Resilience
• Business Continuity
• Personal resilience
• Having a sustainable business
• product
• business model
• strategy
• foresight & collaboration
4. Why we need early preparation
• Creating positive neural pathways
• Physical activity settles ideas and actions into
our being
• Connecting and discussing builds trust
• Permission to help and be helped
• A systemic approach
5. Being resilient
• Locality and neighbours
Space and prompts to think through practicalities
• Connections and trust
Enhanced conversations and understanding around
difficult issues. Better use of skills and knowledge
of vulnerabilities
• Thinking and Planning
Scenarios and prompts clarify thinking and
help build a practical plan.
6. About the game
• Physical box game
– to play with staff, partners, neighbours, the public.
• Business Scenarios
– Eg terrorism, flood, fire, volcanic gas cloud
• Discussion is the thing
– helping each other think consequences through
– Each group will have a different “ideal” box.
• Cheap, logical, often collaborative responses
result
– saving £££ and promoting wellbeing.
7. What next?
• You’re in at the beginning! Business version is in beta
testing
• Come to the Go Green What’s In Your Box? resilience
workshop for businesses later this Summer
• Find out more & sign up at our stand today
www.resiliencebox.co.uk
Twitter @whatsinyourbox1
Editor's Notes
Planning and Resilience is least attempted of Go Green’s pillars.
What does it mean?
Resilience is never urgent – until an incident is catastrophic – NIMTOO
Paternalism – don’t worry – learnt helplessness
National & Local governement – it’ll be ok
Mis-information – media – others will help.
Goes against our human programming – respond best to clear and present danger with fight or flight. Not useful today - can lead to learned helplessness and blame.
We are here to make being resilient easy, enjoyable and effective for you, your staff and all those who depend on you – using a board game.
98% of pepole asked throught they would be saved by blue light services. In reality 98% of pepole are helped by family, friends and neighbours.
Business Continuity – ability of the business, its geography, customers, supply chain to bounce back and forwards from shocks and stresses.
Personal resilience - of body and mind of every member of staff, enabling helpful and positive responses to shocks and stresses – and powerful leadership.
Having a sustainable business – the product, business model, strategy, foresight and collaboration
Creating positive neural pathways. Brains respond differently under stress – much better and more creatively in “peace-time”, especially working with others and at play
Physical activity settles ideas and actions into our being more effectively than hearing or reading alone – fire drills
Connecting and discussing personal stories, scenarios and issues builds trust between people - enhancing individual and group spirit and wellbeing. It gives people great wellbeing to help of have a notion of helping others.
Permission - Individuals are more likely to step over a threshold to help if they have stepped over that threshold before.
A systemic approach – involves the whole system – board and trustees to neighbours and supply chain.
Being Resilient
Locality and neighbours
who are my neighbours? What are their risks, how can I help them, how can they help me?
Escape routes
Homeworking
Kids and schools
Space and prompts to think through practicalities
Connections and trust
With and between staff and senior management, board, supply chain etc.
enhanced conversations and understanding around difficult issues. Better use of skills and knowledge of vulnerabilities
Thinking and Planning
Have we thought through scenarios together? Have we decided which scenarios are more likely for us? What if we get two shocks at once?
Scenarios and prompts clarify thinking and help build a practical plan.