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Making risk management work means engaging people to identify, own and manage risk. Many organisations have spent considerable time and money setting up risk frameworks, processes, and supporting tools, but these have failed to deliver value. Instead, they should focus on the people.
Bringing together the expertise of Ruth Murray-Webster in the human aspects of risk management and Penny Pullan's deep expertise in facilitation, creative collaboration, and virtual leadership, this book provides tried and tested approaches to make each process step work well within the context of your own organisation and serves as a guide as to how to work effectively with groups. By translating a highly technical and complex subject into an easy-to-follow guide, this book goes beyond 'tick-box' approaches and provides top tips on how to engage others in developing risk management solutions and how to avoid many of the common pitfalls. This new edition includes two brand new chapters, one taking a deeper dive into the common decision-biases among groups in organisations, and one looking at remote and hybrid ways of communication and facilitation.
If you are involved in trying to make risk management work, whatever the context, this book will provide you with support and practical advice, in an approachable way, supported by real-life examples and memorable illustrations.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. What is Risk Management? 3. Why People and Their Perceptions Matter 4. Why Risk Facilitation Matters 5. Facilitating the Risk Management Process 6. Risk Workshops 7. Making Virtual Risk Management Work, Whether Fully Remote or Hybrid 8. Potential Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them 9. Ten Golden Guidelines for the Risk Facilitator
Summary
This book articulates the need to engage people in the process of risk management. This new edition includes two brand new chapters, one taking a deeper dive into the common decision biases amongst groups in organisations, and one looking at virtual and hybrid ways of communication and facilitation.
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"If you only want to read one book on risk, I thoroughly recommend this text, it is digestible, wise, and offers solid advice to anyone who wants to drive best practice risk thinking into their work, or into their business."
Dr Michelle Tilley C.Dir, Director, Hinkley Point C, for EDF Energy
"The section on 'Potential Pitfalls and How to Overcome Them' in particular is a masterpiece of concision and common sense."
Nick De Voil, Consultant and Author of User Experience Foundations
Praise for the first edition: A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management
"Risk meetings don't have to be boring: A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management is the book that risk managers have been waiting for. It provides practical guidance on facilitating risk workshops, and making risk management happen outside of the workshop setting as well. Dotted throughout with cartoons, the emphasis is on practical guidance for getting things done without suffocating those poor souls who have to attend risk reviews. The book provides a clear introduction to tackling risk (including opportunities) in a fun, professional way, with the aim of gaining consensus. It's pragmatic and practical, with real-life examples to show how risk management can become ingrained in the day-to-day management of initiatives in your organisation."
Elizabeth Harrin, author of Project Management in the Real World
