Corporate Risk Management

By taking part in this one-week training course participants will study the following areas:

Strategic Context

• Putting corporate risk management into context and exploring what can go wrong
• Exploring recent case studies to understand what has gone wrong and how they affected the companies/organisations involved
• Establishing corporate risk in the company or organisation’s planning cycle
• Understanding your key corporate assets

Threat and Risk Analysis

• Analysing your organisation to get the necessary understanding of where threats and risks may lie
• Protecting your company data and systems
• Protecting key personnel
• Looking at the potential for disaster, accident and emergency
• Setting risks and threats into context using Impact and Probability tools

Financial, Market and Credit Risks

• Understanding the terminology and tools available
• Understanding the ‘value’ of your organisation and its assets
• Credit risk
• Cash flow and debt risks and how to manage them

Practical Risk Management

• Building risk management plans into your organisation’s corporate and operational business plan
• Exploring risks in major project and change management
• Risk allocation and effective reporting mechanisms
• Crisis management planning

The Organisational and Personal ‘appetite’ for Risk

• Taking a realistic evaluation of the organisation’s ‘appetite’ for risk
• Looking at risks and benefits
• Effective stakeholder management and corporate communications
• Personal risk-management planning