Risk Appetite - Setting it Right

As a risk workshop facilitator I get to assist many organisations assess risk to their key organisational objectives.  Interestingly the outcomes are not always about risk treatments, often they are about reviewing risk appetite.

 

Situation One:

The results of the risk workshop show that three of five key strategic objectives have Extreme risk ratings.  This may be due to one of two scenarios:  Either you are an organisation that is on the edge of the cliff OR your risk criteria are simply wrong.  If the latter, you haven’t expressed your risk appetite clearly.  In this case, developing a risk appetite statement to augment risk criteria would help you to set the risk rating criteria more appropriately before the workshop.

 

Situation Two:

The risk workshop results in Low risk ratings for all your key strategic objectives.  Again this may be due to one of two scenarios:  Either your risk criteria are simply wrong where again development of a risk appetite statement to augment risk criteria will help OR you are “at risk” of being too conservative.  You may need to raise the bar higher.  On the other hand, you may be very content in your apparently low risk world.

 

The key point is that a clearly articulated risk appetite will drive people’s behaviour so you need to set it right to drive the behaviour you want to see.

 

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Bryan is a management consultant operating since 2001, specialising in risk-based decision making and influencing decision makers, born from his more than twenty years of facilitating executive and board workshops.

Bryan’s experience as a risk practitioner includes the design and implementation of risk management programs for more than 150 organisations across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Bryan is the author of Risky Business : How Successful Organisations Embrace Uncertainty; Persuasive Advising : How to Turn Red Tape into Blue Ribbon, and Team Think : Unlock the Power of the Collective Mind [to be published in 2022].

He is licenced by the RMIA as a Certified Chief Risk Officer (CCRO) and is the designer and facilitator of their flagship Enterprise Risk Course since 2019.

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