Tabletop Exercise Template

Diagnose and Address Critical Gaps in Your Emergency Plan

Learn a step-by-step framework for conducting effective tabletop exercises at your organization. This downloadable template includes practical guidance, ready-to-use worksheets, and example materials to help your team test plans, uncover gaps, and improve response.

Inside the template, you’ll get:

• Step-by-step guidance for planning and leading an effective tabletop exercise, from prep through evaluation
• A blank tabletop exercise overview template to document your scope, objectives, scenario, injects, participants, mission areas, and more
• A built-in scoring guide to evaluate performance across communication, planning, response, and recovery
• A completed example exercise to show how to structure a realistic scenario, assign roles, and plan injects
• Sample tabletop scenarios covering fires, severe weather, cyber incidents, workplace violence, injuries, travel disruptions, and natural disasters
• Practical planning pointers on participants, logistics, objectives, and facilitator injects to help you run a more productive session