Risk has always been in organisations and projects, but as part of the emphasis on good corporate governance, there is a rapidly growing awareness of the need to manage that risk, not just accept it.

This trend will increase as Chief Executive Officers of organisations start to be required to sign each year to say that risk is being properly managed in their organisations, just as they sign to assure that the accounts are in order. Good risk management isn't just a duty though. It saves money, time and embarrassment and actually helps you take a higher risk approach if you need to.

The word ‘risk’ appears 54 times in the
 Combined Code of the Committee on Corporate Governance 

Inspirandum has organisational risk courses at 3 levels

At Inspirandum we are pleased to offer 3 courses for organisational risk management.  These can be used to ‘roll out’ new risk management procedures throughout your organisation, or can be used individually to meet specific needs.

Risk Management for Senior Managers (2 hours – but flexible)

Designed for senior managers, often at boardroom level, this 2 hour session goes into the needs for risk management and the elements of an effective corporate management structure. The course can look at different approaches if a decision has yet to be made on exactly how to implement it.

• The place of risk management

• The need for rapid escalation of some incidents

• Risk related roles and responsibilities

• The parallel with accounting controls

• The need for regular audit to check effectiveness

• Establishing procedures for risk responsibility

• The specific role of the Risk Manager or Risk Officer

• The interaction of organisational, project and operational risk

• The integration of risk management into corporate governance

• The need for all staff to be got on board and kept on board

Risk Management for Managers (½ day – but flexible)

This session covers the same ground as that for Senior Managers in that it explains the need for effective corporate risk management and the structures associated with that. But it then goes into more detail on the practicalities of managing risk in departmental areas, when to monitor and when to escalate and issues associated with risk related information flows across organisational units (i.e. where a risk identified in one operational area could affect other operational areas). The session allows time for practical discussion and, if appropriate, decision making in these areas.

• The place of risk management

• The need for rapid escalation of some incidents

• Risk related roles and responsibilities

• The specific role of the Risk Manager or Risk Officer

• The interaction of risks at different levels

• Dealing with risks across organisational boundaries

• When to leave management to individual units

• When to review risk and how this should be done

• Risk Registers and controlling entries and responsibilities

• The need for all staff to be got on board and kept on board

Risk Management for All Staff (½ hour)

This session is designed to be used with all staff, usually in a programme that covers all staff in an organisation or department but at about 10 to 20 at a time so that people are not taken out of the office all at once.  It explains the importance of risk management, makes the point that – like accounting – it is a management practice that is not going to go away and that all staff have a responsibility to look out for and monitor risk.

• Why the new emphasis on risk management?

• The need for rapid escalation of some incidents

• Risk structures and responsibilities in the organisation

• The need for all staff to be vigilant

• How to notify a risk

• How to ‘escalate’ if things become more serious

   adjusting the course content

We can readily adjust the content of the individual courses to reflect your own organisational needs and your risk management procedures.

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Organisational Risk for
Senior Managers

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Organisational Risk
for  Managers

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Organisational Risk for Staff

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