Risk management consultancy and training services
Over the last few years I have worked with many organisations with varying degrees of outsourced/contracted services. I support this approach – if it isn’t core to the achievement of your objectives or if the expertise resides outside of your business then outsourcing is positive. The purpose of this blog, however, isn’t to discuss the merits or otherwise of outsourcing
Read MoreWelcome. Today I’m going to talk about the long-term risks of short-term fixes. And this is really quite an issue for a number of organisations both in the public and the private sector. What we find often when we have an event or we start to see some issues within the organisation, we look to either divert money from something
Read MoreI’m often asked why I do these face-to-face courses; it definitely is a big ask. I do 25-26 courses per year – week on, week off – and I go to every part of the country.This year, I may also be taking the course overseas. It does take a lot out of me. So, what gets me to each of
Read MoreRod Farrar, director of Paladin Risk Management Services discusses risk. What it is, how it can be managed, and why your business or organisation needs Risk Management training.
Read MoreTranscript: Today’s topic is talking about current controls. Now, these are like the red-headed step children of risk management. We tend to ignore the current controls that we have in place within an organisation to deal with risks that might occur. Over time within organisations, things have happened, events have happened. It might be fraud, it might be safety incidents.
Read MoreOkay - maybe I am about to open a can of worms here - but I think that RBIA may be a misnomer. Don't get me wrong, I am a firm believer in the internal audit program being aligned to the risk management program - in fact neither will be as effective if they are not intrinsically linked. My argument
Read MoreIf everything is going well, no one is lining up to pat the risk manager on the back, but when things go wrong, people are lining up to tell you. Rod explains how risk managers can make themselves relevant and ensure that what you are doing is adding value to the organisation. Transcript: Doctor Allan McLucas wrote in one of
Read MoreWhat are the attributes of a good risk manager? Rod talks about how stakeholder management, engagement and relationship management can be the most important elements. Transcript: What are the attributes of a good risk manager? Now, one would think that the most important attribute that they would have is to understand risk management. Well, yes that’s important but one of
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"The concept of "inherent risk" is impossible to measure or even define. The idea of looking at risk absent of all hard controls, soft controls or mitigations provides little or no useful information in most cases." Todd Perkins Lately I have seen a resurgence in the use of the term “inherent risk” and it has annoyed me enough to write this
Read MoreTranscript:Today’s topic is building a risk management culture in an organisation. But before I talk about how to build a risk management culture, I want to talk about what a risk culture is.Now it’s something that’s talked about quite often, but I don’t think people have a real understanding of what that risk culture looks like. Now risk culture is
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