Risk Culture Practitioner Development Program
Armed with both technical and adaptive capabilities, risk professionals can be the bridge between great risk capabilities and great risk outcomes.
A program for risk professionals to supplement traditional risk management skills with practices that strengthen partnerships and deepen influence with all risk stakeholders.
Participants will be equipped with 7 adaptive practices and over 30 frameworks and tools that can be used immediately after every session.
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Program Modules
We introduce a set of concepts and frameworks which underpin the subsequent tools and practices in the program. As we explore, practice, and adopt them in our ways of working, our full potential to positively influence and lead on risk takes shape and accelerates.
We consider the unintended consequences of tightly held expert mindset and explore the benefits of a learning mindset. We uncover how we subconsciously listen and form assumptions about people and situations, thus limiting – or expanding -- our ability to effectively influence. We hold a mirror up to ourselves to consider how we are experienced by others, based on our mindsets, assumptions, and behaviours.
Many of us have been trained to see complexity as a threat, something to be ‘untangled’ or broken down into manageable parts; yet, expanding our comprehension of organisational systems in their full complexity is an important capability for progressing risk culture. In this module we dive into the inherent complexity of organisations and introduce frameworks for working successfully with and within complexity.
Creating the conditions for shared ownership of risk is one of the most challenging cultural experiences for risk professionals. An understanding of complexity and systems thinking helps illuminate why this is. In this module, we consider practices that can help create the conditions for a genuine sense of risk ownership to emerge in others, as well as how risk professionals can sometimes be obstacles to greater shared ownership.
Change work can be deeply personally fulfilling and professionally rewarding. At times it is also frustrating and discouraging. This is in part because we cannot ‘create’ change, since we cannot control others’ thoughts, feelings, and willingness to participate in change. Yet we can create environments where change is more likely to occur and the conditions that enable risk culture evolution are present.
Successful change agents are aware of the power of stories and use them intentionally. Similarly, the language we use says so much about who we are, how we see the world, and what it is like to work with us. By becoming aware of our language and becoming more intentional about what and how we speak, we can impact how we are experienced by others and how we influence others. In this module, participants will write the story of risk culture in their organisation.
We consider how our organisations could learn from several well-known risk culture case studies and the enablers and inhibitors to deep retrospectives and root cause analyses. We also explore and co-design questions that could encourage deeper reflection and applied learning from internal case studies.
Just as human beings grow and evolve, organisations also evolve as they develop new capacities to address changing external and internal context, the organisation’s strategy, and its purpose. In this module we review the Adaptive Cultures Framework for how organisations evolve through a risk culture lens.
Participants reflect on their developmental experience during the program, identifying key insights, learnings, and how they have put learnings into practice in their day-to-day role. Each participant will prepare a brief reflection to share with the cohort during our final group session.
Access the program schedule in our brochure
Who Should Attend?
This program would be a great fit for risk professionals who:
- Have formal or informal accountabilities to embed risk management in the organisation or an interest in risk culture
- May feel ‘stuck’ in a risk policing role and are seeking a pathway to being a truly trusted risk advisor
- Can see greater potential for risk understanding, risk embedment, or risk culture in their organisation
- Realise that traditional risk management approaches alone are insufficient to bring about meaningful and lasting improvement in risk behaviours and risk outcomes
- Have an interest and desire to develop new approaches to support business partnering
Meet the Faculty
Andrew Brown
Co-founder & Director
DeAnna Burton
Risk Culture Practice Lead
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