Risk-Speak is $#!t-Speak

Risk-Speak is $#!t-Speak

I have long complained that the risk profession has made risk management needlessly complex. Part of it is the creation of our own language. Risk-speak. We put “risk” in front of or after perfectly normal words like conduct, appetite and reputation.

By putting risk in front of or behind these words we feel we create an important emphasis for leaders. Worse still, when we really get going with all our jargon it’s like we are speaking Parseltongue, the language of serpents in the imaginary world of Harry Potter.

The result is we have separated risk out from the world of business. We have become an add-on. Something that must be done in addition to running a successful business.

Your focus must be on integrating risk into business-as-usual. Concentrate on blending good risk management principles into existing practices. Take procurement for example. The need for and approach to assessing risk for a procurement should be created and owned by the procurement function. By all means support them but let them design it into their framework and systems because they will know how best to do so while minimising red tape.

There are more tips on defeating risk-speak in my new book Risky Business: How Successful Organisations Embrace Uncertainty.

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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.

<a href="http://www.bryanwhitefield.com">www.bryanwhitefield.com</a>

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