Home    Who Is BRM?    Contact Us    Help

 


Course Diary  
Course Outlines  
Booking Information  

In-House Training
  

The Challenge  
Facilitation  

£20Billion Industry  
Prevention  
Investigations  

Planning For SME's  
Book Your Session  

Course Programme  

In-House  
Internal Audit  
Fraud  
Risk Management  
Assurance  



< Home > < Open Courses > < Outlines > ERM Into The Local Authority Culture

EMBEDDING RISK MANAGEMENT INTO THE LOCAL AUTHORITY CULTURE

1 DAY INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP - PROGRAMME

9.00 - 9.30 Registration And Refreshments
9.30 - 9.45 Introductions And Course Objectives
9.45 - 10.15 THE 7 PRINCIPLES OF RISK MANAGEMENT 
- THE CIPFA/SOLACE GUIDELINES
  • The principles and their basis
  • How to ensure that the principles are applied
  • The CPA requirements 
  • The positive benefits of embedding risk management
  • Actions you need to take
10.15 - 11.00 ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE RISK MANAGEMENT PROCESS
  • Getting Chief Executives and Leader support
  • Agreeing a common risk language
  • Developing a risk policy for your organisation
  • Selling the benefits to management
  • Risk workshops - the do's & don'ts
  • Risk identification and evaluation
  • Risk categories
  • Risk mitigation
  • Identifying risk exposures, and opportunities
  • Action planning
  • Monitoring action plan implementation
  • Discussion of delegates own experiences 
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee
11.15 - 12.15 INTEGRATING THE OUTPUT FROM RISK WORKSHOPS INTO THE BUSINESS PROCESS
  • Linking corporate risks into the Strategic planning process
  • Linking operational risks into service planning
  • Risk owners - how to determine such personnel and enforce ownership
  • Annual statements by risk owners
  • Developing risk tracking
  • Using the risk register as a decision skeleton
  • Reports for Senior Management - several examples will be shared
  • The 38 questions on the 'Worth the Risk' checklist
    • Members
    • Officers/Implementation
    • Risk identification
    • Assessing significance
    • Risk exposures
    • Consultation
    • Communication
    • Change Management

Syndicate exercise - the 38 questions 

12.15 - 13.00 REPUTATION AND HOW TO MANAGE IT
  • The rise of reputation as the key risk
  • The increasing importance of a positive image - the need to be admired
  • Reputation - the value measure of the 21st century
  • Where does reputation come from? 
  • How do you measure it?
  • The explosion of regulation and external assurance
  • The scrutiny dilemma (league tables etc) and the implications.
  • The growth of activism in society 
  • The relationship between vision, values, behaviour and reputation
  • Moving reputation out of the PR arena and into the council chamber
  • Damage by association - partnering and alliances

    Exercise - How to judge reputation
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 RECORDING THE RISK ENVIRONMENT
  • Risk registers - the need to coordinate and link the output
  • Flagging interdependencies - if one risk treatment is changed the other party or parties impacted need to be notified.
  • Risk treatment analysis - how to determine the cost/ benefits of dealing with exposures / exploiting opportunities
  • Risk financing and how to introduce the disciplines 
  • Integrating incident management
  • Business Continuity planning
  • Integrating Health and Safety, Insurance and claims etc 
  • The use of Risk Management Software - pros and cons
  • The Software available
15.00 - 15.20 Tea
15.20 - 16.30 CASCADING THE PROCESS
  • Members responsibility for Risk
  • Members workshops
  • Workshops for other management levels
  • How to measure the benefits
  • Risk awareness for staff
  • Sharing output with partners 
  • Evaluating risks within these relationships
  • Risk indicators (KPI's)
  • Auditing the Risk Management programme
  • How to Identify and reduce excessive controls
  • Feeding key risks up the organisation
  • Co-ordinating the whole process
  • Useful web sites and reference books
  • Managing stakeholder expectations
  • How to use the programme to change the culture in a positive way
16.30 Close

Course Outlines

Course Diary

Booking Information

In-House Training