Risk Adviser Program
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.
What you will learn
- How best to stand in the shoes of your stakeholders and internal clients, including the executives and the board.
- How to paint them a picture to clarify and engage.
- How to use stories to connect and inspire.
- How best to ensure you have so much credibility, they cannot help but follow your advice.
The Risk Adviser Program tackles the challenge advisers, practitioners and managers have to cut through with their advice to stakeholders. It 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.
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
About Bryan
Bryan Whitefield is a management consultant operating since 2001, specialising in risk-based decision making, 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 author of Risky Business: How Successful Organisations Embrace Uncertainty; Persuasive Advising: How to Turn Red Tape into Blue Ribbon and Team Think: How Teams Make Great Decisions. He was President and Chair of the RMIA from 2013 – 2015. 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.
Course Details
Audience: Risk professionals; Compliance & Governance professionals; Heads of Strategy and Senior Executives leading strategy, governance, risk or compliance teams
Cost: $660 incl. GST
Format: On-Line, On-Demand
Time: 3 hours, including videos, quizzes, and supplementary research materials.