Bryan Whitefield Consulting (BWC)

The next Mastering Risk Workshop Facilitation Online Course is scheduled for Thurs, 12 June & Fri, 13 June | 9am-1pm AEST

Providing you with the confidence to tackle both face-to-face and online facilitation environments while building your skill set for the future.

This course is for risk professionals seeking mastery in risk workshop facilitation.

This course is to help you move beyond mechanical processes for collecting a list of risks.  You will be give a process for preparing for engaging workshops, shown techniques for facilitating effective conversations and be introduced to a range of tools to provide insights to the business so they can make better sense of their world.

As a result, you will delight your audience and become more valued, more trusted, and will be invited to provide your advice before decisions are made.

One: Preparation

• Objectives – Context and Scope
• Team – Politics, culture and capability
• Facility – Optimising and working with constraints
• Analysis – Tools and techniques to provide insights

Two: Facilitation

• Framing – Introducing, confirming and clarifying
• Conversations – Initiating, guiding and ending
• Tipping points – Navigating dominance, bias and silence
• Collation – Priorities, breadth and depth

Three: Post-Mortem

• Objectives check – Alignment with values and goals
• Reality check – Fact check, resource check, pub-test check

What you will learn:

1. How to prepare for a workshop to maximise the value delivered to participants.
2. Understand the key to an engaging workshop no matter the participants, the location or the time available.
3. Learn how to deliver strong insights to decision makers before, during and after the workshop.
4. Experience the value of key tools and techniques for managing politics, bias and difficult people.

Course Details:

This is an online interactive course run over two half-days with ample time to participate, share and network.

Course Dates: 

• Thurs, 12 June & Fri, 13 June | 9am-1pm AEST

Location: Online Zoom Meeting

Cost: Members: NZD$1,859 + GST | Non-Members:$2059 + GST

Next steps: Register Via: [email protected], Receive Invoice, Payment, Bryan Whitefield will make contact to get you set up for the training days.

Download Course PDF: Mastering Risk Workshop Facilitation-2 

Empowering Risk Professionals to Influence with Impact

This course is a chance to step back, challenge the status quo, and rethink how you approach influence in your role.  Whether you’re dealing with a resistant CEO or a sceptical executive team, this course will show you the opportunity and how you can shift the dynamics in your favour.

The Risk Adviser Program tackles the challenge advisers, practitioners and managers have to cut through with their advice to stakeholders.  It has been delivered successfuly to full houses across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors and it will give you all you need to make the difference you know you can make, so you can create the change that is needed in your organisation.

Key Topics Covered:

Lesson One: The Role of Risk Advisers

• Perceptions of Risk Advisers
• The Role of Risk Advisers
• Introducing the Pathfinder Model

Lesson Two: The Art and Science of Persuasion

• The Six Principles of Persuasion

Lesson Three: The Pathfinder Model – Credibility

• The Three Core Elements of Credibility
• The Pathfinder Model in Action – Credibility

Lesson Four: The Pathfinder Model – Understand

• Dale Carnegie’s story of Abe Lincoln
• The Pathfinder Model in Action – Understand
• Tools for Standing in Their Shoes

Lesson Five: The Pathfinder Model – Paint

• Paint – A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
• What Painting Pictures is all About
• The Pathfinder Model in Action – Paint

Lesson Six: The Pathfinder Model – Tell

• Tell – Create Connection with Stories
• The Pathfinder Model in Action
• An Analogy is a Type of Story

Lesson Seven: Bringing it all Together

• What’s Next For You
• What’s Next For Us

Additional Resources

What you will learn:

1. How best to stand in the shoes of your stakeholders and internal clients, including the executives and the board.
2. How to paint them a picture of clarify and engage.
3. How to use stories to connect and inspire.
4. How best to ensure you have so much credibility, they cannot help but follow your advice.

Course Details:

Audience: Risk Professionals; Compliance & Governance Professionals; Heads of Strategy and Senior Executives leading strategy, governance, risk or compliance teams.

Format: On-line, On-Demand

Cost: Available shortly

Time: 3 hours, including videos, quizzes and supplementary research materials.

Next steps: Register Via: [email protected], Receive Invoice, Payment, Bryan Whitefield will make contact to get you set up for the training days.

This course is ideal for in-house training and it typically tailored to suit each business.  Bryan works with groups, ideally with 20 participants, which can be made up of one business or two-three businesses.  In the scenario where there is a shared training situation, the course will be semi tailored around a more general approach.

The average piece of business advice to an executive takes about 8 hours of your and your team’s time to prepare and 15 minutes to deliver.

Those 15 minutes simply cannot be wasted.

This course is for any adviser, practitioner or manager who wants to become a master influencer.

The Persuasive Adviser Program tackles the challenge risk advisers, practitioners and managers have with getting their message and key advice through to their stakeholders.

The Persuasive Adviser Program has been delivered successfully to full-houses across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors and it will give you all you need to make the difference you know you can make, so you can create the change that is needed in your organisation.

One of the most common complaints Bryan hears from internal advisers of all kinds (admin, finance, HR, IT, risk, compliance, procurement and audit as examples) is how difficult it is to get some business leaders to listen to them, and even harder to get them to act on their advice.

The biggest issue most advisers face is that they have to be a corporate cop from time to time. It then makes it very hard to turn around the next day and say to a business leader, “I am your trusted adviser on this and here is my advice.” Yet, it is all about trust.

Consider the trust scale in the diagram below. Are you seen as a controller, like a financial controller, or an expert? If so you are not having the impact you could, you are not making the difference you know you can make.

What you will learn

1. How best to stand in the shoes of your stakeholders and internal clients, including the executives and the board.
2. How to paint them a picture to clarify and engage.
3. How to use stories to connect and inspire.
4. How best to ensure you have so much credibility, they cannot help but follow your advice.

Course Overview

The biggest issue most advisers face is that they have to be a corporate cop from time to time. It then makes it very hard to turn around the next day and say to a business leader, “I am your trusted adviser on this and here is my advice.” Yet, it is all about trust.

Consider the trust scale in the diagram below. Are you seen as a controller, like a financial controller, or an expert? If so you are not having the impact you could, you are not making the difference you know you can make.

1. Perceptions of internal advisers
2. Achieving Persuasive Adviser status

The Pathfinder Model

1. Why decision making can be improved
2. MCI – Motivation – Clarification – Implementation

Stand – Paint – Tell – Make

1. How to stand in your internal client’s shoes
2. How to paint them a picture
3. How to tell them a story
4. How to make them believe

Action Plan 

• Developing your toolbox
• Planning your journey
• Making yourself accountable

The Persuasive Adviser Program will introduce to you my Pathfinder Model for master influencing. So you will be invited to provide your advice 5 or 10 times more than you are now so you can have the impact you want to make.

Download Bryan’s Whitepaper on ‘Persuasive Advising’ Persuasive-Advising-Whitepaper-1

More insights on this course at BWC – watch the video’s here: https://www.bryanwhitefield.com.au/persuasive-adviser-program

Format of the Course: In-house

For in-house training inquiries, or to register your interest, please get in touch with [email protected]

Dates: Dates are arranged to suit between the parties.

Cost: Ask for a quote

About

This course is for anyone seeking to get the fundamentals of risk right.

The Uncertainty Paradox states that the only thing certain is uncertainty. And the risk management process is a powerful tool for understanding uncertainty to aid decision making.

The purpose of the course is to provide you with a clear understanding of the risk management process as defined in NZS ISO 31000 so you are able to utilise it effectively in daily life.

Format of the Course

Half Day Online Learning Workshop

Phase One: Outline of NZS ISO 31000

• Background to Standard
• Outline of Standard

Phase Two: Risk Management Principles

• What is risk and what is risk management?
• The Principles that underly sound Risk Management

Phase Three: Risk Management Process

• AS ISO 31000 Risk Management Process
• Preparing for a Risk Assessment

Course Details: Receiving expressions of interest.

3.5 hours Half Day Online Learning Workshop

Location: Online Zoom Meeting

PRICE: Members: $526+GST | Non-member: $605+GST

About

This course is for project managers and risk managers seeking to understand how to embed risk in a project while minimising administrative burden. You will be introduced to what an effective project risk management framework looks like and how it works. As importantly, the process of risk assessment you do every day will be broken down for you so you can apply it more formally to your key program and project decisions.

The framework, tools and techniques you will be introduced to will provide you with a basis for managing your project risk more effectively than ever before. It will also provide you with the means to demonstrate to your key stakeholders that you understand and are managing risk for their benefit.

Format of the Course

Two Half-Day Online Learning Workshops

Phase One: The good and the bad of project risk management approaches

• Risk and good governance
• Project risk management in plain English 
• The Project Risk Management Journey
• Effective project risk frameworks
• The benefits of project risk management
• Group Exercise – Defining the benefits and the barriers to effective project risk management.

Phase Two: Delivering value through project risk assessment

• The project risk management process 
• A simple project risk register tool
• Initial analysis to establish context
• Establishing Risk Appetite for a project
• Group Exercise – Establishing the context for a project.  
• Project risk assessment tools and techniques – work breakdown structures, process flow diagrams, event tree analysis, Bowtie Analysis
• Risk assessment tips and tricks
• Prioritising known risks, exposing known but unspoken risks, discovering unknown risks and making allowance for what we can’t predict – Black Swans
• Group Exercise – Project risk assessment

Phase Three: Driving project performance

• Project risk treatments – developing innovative solutions
• Risk sharing via contracts – issues in negotiating acceptable indemnity clauses
• Understanding risk management performance
• Understanding and influencing risk culture within a project team
• Influencing culture through strong risk leadership
• Group Exercise – Methods for embedding a good risk culture in a project team.  

Course Details: Receiving expressions of interest.

Location: Online Zoom Meeting

PRICE: Members: $1,320+GST | Non-Members: $1,520+GST

Register Via: [email protected]

About

This workshop is for risk professionals tasked with developing or influencing an effective risk culture across the business.

What you will learn

1. Understand what culture and specifically risk culture is and how culture affects organisations.
2. Appreciate the pros and cons of various methods for assessing risk culture.
3. How to design an effective program for embedding risk culture.
4. Tips for implementing your risk culture program.

The key principle of risk management is that it creates and protects value. The challenge for risk professionals is that legacy cultures undervalue risk management. They see risk more as a compliance activity than something aligned to purpose, values and designed to help drive a successful strategy.

As strategy specialist Peter Drucker said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. And so, risk culture, as a subset of culture, eats risk management for lunch. Leaving you, the risk professional, wondering how you can change hearts and minds – fast.

This course will provide you with a multi-faceted approach to assessing and improving risk culture. It will also give you the ability to develop forward-looking metrics to enable you to tangibly measure and evidence positive culture change. In turn, you will shift from being seen as corporate cop to corporate builder of a strong cultural fabric. Delivering a risk intelligent workforce.

Course Overview

This is an online interactive course run over two half-days, with ample time to participate, share and network.

Part One: Culture and Risk Culture

• What is culture?
• What is risk culture?
• How does culture drive decision making?

Part Two: Assessing Culture

• Values and behavioural indicators
• Data analysis and investigations
• Observations and audits

Part Three: Designing your Program

• Desired behaviours
• Engagement strategies
• Measuring success

Part Four: Implementing your Program

• Establishing benchmarks
• Developing capability
• Leading change

Course Details: Receiving expressions of interest.