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DEBRIEFING WORKSHOP OVERVIEW | Pg 35
DEBRIEFING WORKSHOP OVERVIEW | Pg 36
REVIEW DEBRIEFING WORKSHOP GUIDANCE WITH TEAM
Continued
generalisation of lessons learned, and some thinking about how the lessons
learned from the exercise might be applied in one’s actual working life. These
aspects of learning require a well-planned, facilitated debriefing of the simulation
exercise.
A general rule: plan to spend about as much time debriefing/analysing the simulation
as you spent in the actual exercise – if not more! That is, if you have
run the full, daylong GES exercise, you should plan a full day of debriefing and
analysis.
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
The workshop participants should generally include the top three or four senior
representatives of bodies sitting on emergency management forums or coordination
councils (e.g. representatives, deputy representatives, senior programme
officers, and chairs of national bodies).
No external participants should be present at the debriefing as participants
may become inhibited from criticizing their own efforts or analysing problems
openly when externals groups are present and they feel a risk of embarrassing
themselves or their organisations. If external participants did take part in the
simulation, their feedback should be obtained by e-mail or telephone immediately
after the exercise for use in the debriefing session. This is a judgement call
by the lead facilitator and should be made with senior representatives.
FACILITATE
Your team may have to adapt the agenda as well as a result of issues or challenges
that arose during the exercise and appear to provide key learning opportunities.
These will clearly be “last-minute” adaptations and must be worked
into the agenda the evening before the debriefing workshop.
However your team divides up workshop session facilitation responsibilities,
be sure to review the adaptations to each session as a group to obtain consensus
on their inclusion and ensure all issues of importance are incorporated.
DEBRIEFING WORKSHOP
SESSIONS
It is assumed that those facilitation team members who will be running sessions
have prior experience in facilitating groups and understand adult learning
principles. These team members should take time the evening before the
debriefing workshop to review the detailed session guides that apply to their
sessions (Annexes C.02.01. – C.02.06) to familiarize themselves with the objectives
and action plans of those sessions, and to adapt, as needed, their session
plans to take into account particular findings or lessons from the GES exercise.
Refer to Annex C.02.01. through C.02.06. on Pages 93 - 110 to review the
debriefing workshop session guides.
ADAPT & ASSIGN
WORKSHOP SESSIONS
TO TEAM MEMBERS
The sample GES debriefing workshop agenda provided in Annex C.01. may be
used as is if deemed appropriate, or adapted to ensure that the sessions focus on
the specific GES objectives of your event.