Recently I had one of those tickly moments in a risk workshop I was facilitating. I heard the words: “We can’t put that up!” The risk was being assessed inconveniently high. As I have written and spoken about many times before, one of our jobs as risk professionals is to uncover the elephant in the
If you’re an avid reader of my blog you would have noticed over the last six weeks that I’ve been writing about the importance and skill of facilitating valuable risk workshops. I’ve also had the pleasure recently of hosting a couple of free MasterClasses on this topic with great success and engagement from my followers.
The workshop is over. The hard work is done. The Chair, CEO or team leader has taken you aside and thanked you for such an enlightening workshop. Job done! No, it’s not. The last thing you need to do is make sure you are helping the team with sensemaking, not nonsense making. The key is
The more prepared you are the better you will facilitate. The less likely you will vacillate at a difficult moment. Regardless, the ability to effectively facilitate a workshop is a wonderful skill to develop. When I facilitate I concentrate on three things: To be in service of those in the room. I’m not the star.
Over the last few weeks, I have encouraged you to look at risk workshops as pathways to creating clarity for teams about what is between them and success. Sensemaking or making sense of the world. The secret to successful risk workshops is the preparation you undertake. I know you are busy, and preparing takes time.