Practical Risk Training for Everyone

We make decisions all the time – crossing a busy road, buying an insurance policy, selecting a project vendor, or making a recruitment decision.

Every decision comes with its risks and uncertainties.

If you’re a project manager, you need to understand what risks could affect your project and why they matter.

If you’re recruiting a new employee, you need to understand the uncertainties around the recruitment and why they matter to your outcome.

Risk is not something to be avoided, but to be understood and leveraged in pursuit of an organisation’s purpose and value creation.

So it is important for everyone who makes decisions to become risk literate, someone who understands the concept of uncertainty and risk, understand why it’s important and who has the skills to assess the risk and use that to help them make better-informed decisions.

This is where risk management can help individuals and organisations achieve success when there are uncertainties to the outcome.

Contrary to popular believe, risk management is not about identifying and managing specific risk. Instead, it is about understanding the range of uncertainties that matter most to our success and doing things that increases the likelihood and extent of that success.

We can only increase the likelihood and extent of our success if we understand what might happen, both good and bad, and understand what needs to go right to achieve our objectives, rather than what can go wrong.

Far too long, many experts, consultants and academics have been focusing on the process, compliance and tactics of risk management rather than the purpose and intent of risk management, which to make informed decisions by understanding the uncertainties that matter most to our success.

They also focus on the downside, what can go wrong, avoiding actions and failure, rather than what needs to go right and seeking opportunities for achieving success.

Our primary focus, therefore, should be on enabling success, making informed decisions, seizing upon opportunities and taking the right risks.

Designed for busy people, this Practical Risk Training for Everyone is delivered to provide individuals with a basic understanding of risk management and how it could be used in their lives to make informed decisions to achieve success.