Corporate Trainings

Learning Objectives:

1. Introduction To Risk Management 
   • Understand the risk around us and risk management— as an inescapable part of economic activity
   • What is risk maturity and its importance?
2. Understanding Risk
   • Definition of risk and its principles
   • Learn the processes and attributes of risk management 
   • Know how to use risk management to maximise opportunities and minimise threats.
3. Purpose & Scope Of Risk Management
   • Create an appropriate risk framework, including roles and responsibilities, policies, and appropriate guidance
   • Develop an awareness of risk appetite.
4. Risk Assessment & Its Techniques
   • Learn how to assess risks and select appropriate actions using tools like Risk Registers, Risk Bow-Ties and Risk Matrices
   • Practically use case studies to identify and analyse risks.
5. Risk Action & Treatment Plans
   
   • Recognise the effectiveness of control
   • Business Resilience Awareness
6. Communication & Risk Reporting
   • Learn the techniques for sustaining the risk management process through effective monitoring and review
   • Develop an understanding of effective risk reporting
   • How to communicate risk effectively at all levels of your organization and external stakeholders.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the key components of a risk management framework as they apply to all industries
• Understand the evolving financial services landscape in the digital age
• Learn about risk management in the Financial Services Sector
• Learn about the additional risk management complexities presented by the Financial Services Sector's rapid changes such as Fintech and Sustainable Financing
• Learn about the critical role that regulation plays in the Financial Services Industry.
• Understand how to use risk management tools like RCSA.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explain what climate change is and why it is important to your company
• Conduct a risk assessment for climate change
• An overview of international guidelines and regulations and current trends
• Recognize the components of an effective governance framework for climate change risk management
• Understand what it takes to achieve resilience to climate change risks using case studies and scenario modelling
• How to implement risk-based decision-making in your organisation for climate change risks.

Agenda:

1. Context Of Risk Management
   • Risk Vocabulary
   • Risk Standards 
   • Regulation & Governance.
2. Objectives
   • Importance of understanding organisational objectives
   • Breaking objectives down into Drivers and KPIs so they can be mapped to risk indicators (KRIs). 
3. Risk Culture
   • Understand how culture influences the risk maturity of an organisation
   • Examination of the Culture Model and Personal Biases & Behaviours
   • Learn how to use risk workshops while taking into account the unique personalities of each team member.
4. Risk Responses
   • Understand the controls and initiatives to respond to risks
   • Create a mini-business case to support new controls
   • Assessment of organisational resilience to determine how well it can adapt to new controls.
5. The Five Stages Of A Risk Management Framework
   • Objectives
   • Appetite
   • Risk Identification & Assessment
   • Risk Responses & Risk Assurance
6. Risk Appetite
   • Understand the difference between Appetite, Tolerance, Capacity and Universe. 
   • Techniques for formulating successful appetite statements on both a strategic and operational level.
7. Risk Identification & Evaluation
   • External Stakeholder and Front-to-back models to identify risks
   • Using fishbone and bow-ties to understand risks
   • Dive into the classic Impact/Likelihood Model to also introduce a Control Effectiveness model.
8. Risk Assurance
   • Identifying the stakeholders who:

1. Require 
2. Provide assurance
   • Techniques with key roles and three lines of defence
   • Audit's function in assurance
   • Forward-looking assurance – horizon scanning and blue sky thinking.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Understand the risk management techniques that can be effectively used in various circumstances
• Learn the significance of the five main risk management steps
• Identify practical ways to implement a solid, long-term, and simple risk management framework in your organisation
• Understand organisational resilience and its significance
• Techniques for addressing people biases in the organisation.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Understand the difference between risk appetite, risk tolerance and thresholds
• Create a risk appetite framework and supporting governance processes
• Create risk appetite measurements and action thresholds
• Develop and implement risk appetite within your organisation’s ERM framework
• Based on the risk appetite measures, establish Key Risk and Control Indicators
• Obtain support from the board and executives for formalising the organization's risk appetite.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how risk management can be applied to achieve a competitive advantage
• Ability to identify how resilient and agile the organisation is in the face of constant change
• To develop an understanding of the risks related to the organisation adjusting to sustainability targets
• Examine the potential effects of strategic risks on your organisation
• Learn how to evaluate and track the success of your control measures
• Identify the short-term "clear and present danger" risks, their medium-term knock-on impacts and their long-term existential problems.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Describe the importance of operational risk to organisations and stakeholders
• Analyze the operational risk governance system and create improvement plans
• Create efficient approaches to influence risk culture such as how to create an appropriate Tone from the Top in the organisation
• Influence the development of effective operational risk appetite statements
• Apply cutting-edge techniques to improve a wide array of operational risk process tools
• Increase the integration of operational risk process tools into an organization's daily operations
• Plan more effectively to build a flexible and robust organisation.

Learn About:

1. Reputation
   • Why reputation is one of the main issues in boardrooms
   • Recognizing potential reputational risks like failing to satisfy consumer expectations, social media attacks and cyberattacks.
     
2. Digital Risk
   • Digital risk, digital technology and the “4th industrial revolution”
   • Societal and competitive effects of digital disruption
   • The current condition of digital technology
   • Artificial Intelligence
   • Cryptocurrencies & Blockchain Technology
   • Ethics and Regulation – GDPR.
3. Digital Risk Solutions
   • How to include risk management into decision-making to prevent your company from using digital technology incorrectly.
   • The Digital Committee 
   • Future developments and emerging risks
   • Can digital technology help manage risks by defending an organization's supply chain?
4. Cyber Security
   
   • Social media threats and cyberattacks
   • Cyber threats from relationships with third parties
   • Cybersecurity measures.
5. Risk Culture
   • Human factors
   • The significance of risk culture in providing organisational resilience, efficient management of digital risks and enhancing & safeguarding a company's reputation
   • Top-down tone and effective communication of positive risk management
   • How to build risk management competency within the organisation
   • A plan for rewarding employees who take risks and manage them.

Learn About:

• What are the concepts of risk culture and what it means for your organisation
• The importance and types of risk culture and control to organisations
• The internal and external variables that impact an organization's risk culture
• Learn how to improve your risk-taking abilities by implementing effective risk-management techniques
• Reviewing and assessing several methods for keeping an eye on risk cultures such as metrics and surveys
• Different regulatory approaches to risk culture like HSE, Financial Services And Financial Reporting.

Learn About:

1. Risk Management
   • Framework- The framework, processes, and concepts of risk management
   • Tools & Methods-  Risk Assessment, Risk appetite and Tolerance
   • Risk Culture & Risk Maturity
   • Risk Workshops & Communication
2. Gas & Oil
   • Project Portfolios- How to use a risk-based approach to prioritise project portfolios?
   • Exposure To Internal And External Risks- The several kinds of risks that oil and gas firms deal with as well as the ideas of positive and negative risks
   • Working In Politically Unstable Locations- Types of risks faced and how to manage them effectively.

Learning About:

• Setting the context for supplier/third-party risk management including how supply chains are changing and affecting risks, definitions, alignment with supply chain and enterprise risk management and the benefits of managing supplier and third-party risks
• Understand the relationship between supply chain management and risk management along with risk types such as cyber, compliance, financial crime and business disruption.
• The difficulties of managing supply chain/third-party risks
• Overview of the Supply Chain and Third-Party Risk Framework
• Process criteria, tools and approaches for evaluating third-party risks and controls
• Learn about Third-Party Risk Governance like operational models, monitoring & reporting, strategic risk management and resilience
• Managing supply chain/third-party risk management information
• Implementing Supply Chain and Third-Party Risk Management – from risk to resilience
• The digitisation of Supply Chain and Third-Party Risk Management – risks and opportunities.

Learning Outcomes:

• Effective management of supply chain/third-party risk
• Recognize the difficulties and risks involved with managing third-party risk
• Successfully capitalise on partnerships with external parties while upholding compliance
• Facilitate constant monitoring of important partners and suppliers
• Create a supplier/third-party management lifecycle to manage and track relationships with suppliers and third parties
• Establish ownership and accountability for supplier/third-party management across the three lines of defence.
• Provide supplier/third-party management process consistency and enhance cross-functional collaboration.
• Improve your ability to communicate with vendors and other parties about compliance and risk issues
• Deliver to the board of directors, regulators, and stakeholders efficient third-party governance and assurance
• Keep an eye on the metrics to determine the success of supplier or third-party risk management
• Embrace third-party/supplier risk management as an integral part of other crucial procedures like procurement.