Provide additional risk management training to the in-house risk management team and business units responsible for internal control, audit, finance, strategy and others. Risk managers may conduct it personally or outsource to third party providers. In-depth risk management training should include (this example is based on the actual risk management training provided by Institute for Strategic Risk Analysis and RISK-ACADEMY to some of the largest non-financial companies in Russia):
RISK MANAGEMENT FOUNDATIONS
- Definition of risk
- History of risk management
- International and national risk management standards
- Introduction to finance, project management and process management
- Introduction to statistics
- Insurance basics
RISK MANAGEMENT IN DECISION MAKING
- Identification of risks associated with decision making or goals/KPIs achievement
- Risk analysis in decision making (sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, Monte-Carlo simulations, decision trees, scoring models)
- Risk mitigation and risk-based decision making
- Disclosure, reporting, monitoring and review
PSYCHOLOGY AND RISK MANAGEMENT CULTURE
- Risk psychology and cognitive biases in decision making
- Risk management culture
- Principles of risk management ethics
INTEGRATING RISK MANAGEMENT INTO THE BUSINESS
- Understanding the organisational appetite for risk
- A roadmap for risk management integration:
- Developing new and updating existing policies and procedures
- Integration into decision making, planning, budgeting, purchasing, auditing etc.
- Risk management roles and responsibilities, risk management KPIs
- Integrating risk information into management reporting
- Resources required for the implementation of risk management
- Auditing risk management effectiveness
- Risk management continuous improvement
- Risk management software
HERE IS A QUICK CHECKLIST TO TURN THIS SECTION INTO ACTIONS
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Identify key stakeholders within the organisation who may benefit from advanced risk management training |
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Provide in-depth risk management training for risk champions that covers the key principles of ISO31000:2018, decision quality and cognitive biases, risk quantification, risk culture and integration of risk analysis into decision making and core processes |
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