Describe in detail at least three important facets for designing a valid and relevant exercise.

For your assignment, using any program or media resource(s), you will prepare a formal presentation (complete with extensive notes) that educates and trains your county EM colleagues. Complete the following steps:

• Choose one of the types of plans listed above; describe what this type of plan is intended to do in contributing to the county’s preparedness. (You will need to research these types of plans independently if you are unfamiliar with them.)
• Communicate the status of this plan. This will require some imagination as you depict a hypothetical state for it; make the plan as strong or weak as you desire, but be clear in your presentation and notes as to how you assessed the plan and why you selected it for a priority for testing or revision.
• Fully explain the preparedness cycle to your teammates.
• Design a model (or employ an existing version) creating or using a picture, graphic, representation, etc., to illustrate the cycle.
• Explain what capabilities and activities each stage in the cycle promotes to contribute to the overall effectiveness of all plans.
• Explain what capabilities and activities each stage in the cycle promotes to contribute to the overall effectiveness of this particular plan—be specific (e.g., consider how activities that are promoted by the cycle’s stages might differ for critical infrastructure protection vs. pandemic influenza planning).
• Describe in detail at least three important facets for designing a valid and relevant exercise.
• Explain the importance of these facets for any and all planning.
• Directly relate these facets to testing or improving the plan you have reviewed.
• Choose and describe at least five important stakeholders or partners with whom county EM planners should work.
• State who they are and why are they important, especially in developing, exercising, evaluating, and refining this plan.
  • Make at least one of these prospective partners a private sector representative (real or notional).
• Provide recommendations for ways the county should draw these stakeholders into contributing to the preparedness cycle’s activities.
  • What incentives might the county specifically offer each partner to elicit enthused collaboration?
  • What capabilities might the county expect each partner to bring to bear?
  • Suggest ways in which each partner could be integrated into an exercise for this specific plan