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Strategic Risk Planning

research-based, results-driven, people-friendly

Duration: Two and one half days

What is the Strategic Risk Planning workshop about?

This workshop can be a stand-alone exercise designed to facilitate identification of strategic organisational risk elements – or used as a combined approach with a tailored strategic planning suite along with organisational capability planning. As a stand-alone workshop it uses the dynamics of strategic conversation to take delegates through a new and high-level view of risk in terms of the strategic planning loop. 

Research-based: this workshop is based on a systemic and systematic risk analysis approach that was developed through recent research – that showed that organisations that pay strategic attention to risk substantially improve their performance. 

Results-driven: the research data was further refined and trialled by groups of senior executives – and this workshop uses that learning

People-friendly: the approach builds on and uses managers’ own experience in risk assessment and management and is fast-paced with opportunities for discussion and analysis. 

Who would benefit?

The Strategic Planning Team, representative group managers from different divisions within your organisation, the senior executive group, or sub-committee of a governing Board would all benefit from this workshop. Risk assessment and management at the operational level is usually well executed by organisations, while strategic risk assessment can be overlooked or given cursory time during the strategic planning process. 

Objectives

At the end of the workshop, the delegate group will have undertaken a scenario planning exercise focusing on strategic risks and opportunities in possible future ‘stories’. They will have taken the existing strategic plan and subjected it to an intense ‘SWOT’ analysis to identify risks and opportunities at each stage of the strategic planning loop. These first two stages of the workshop provide the ‘systemic’ view of strategic risk. In the final stage of the workshop, the delegates undertake a ‘systematic’ assessment of risk to identify key strategic areas for attention. An expected outcome of the workshop will be a series of recommendations for risk mitigation, management and review. 

Key topics covered

• Conventional risk assessment and management
• Exploring risk through a strategic lens
• Techniques of Scenario Planning and Stakeholder Mapping
• Holistic SWOT Analysis
• Partitioning Risk – Efficiency and Effectiveness Elements
• Convergent Strategic Risk Analysis

The extra mile

This workshop is designed to gain maximum value from the group’s interactions, discussions and analysis – to identify and select strategic risks and opportunities for attention and management. The workshop comprises two intense days followed by a final half-day to develop the Strategic Risk recommendations. Our facilitation includes scribing and synthesizing the discussions for that final half-day session.