Risk Training – Risk For Non-Risk Experts
Develop the potential of your team with ACN’s training programme, designed specifically for non-risk professionals.
Elevate Your Organisation’s Risk Management with ACN’s Training Programme. Empower Your Team, Enhance Engagement, and Achieve Success!
What It Is
Unlock the potential of your team with ACN’s training programme, designed specifically for non-risk professionals. Delivered in a cohort model, this programme strengthens participants’ understanding of Risk Management Principles and enhances organisational risk management using ACN tools and the Goat Risk® platform. By emphasising the importance of collective responsibility, this training fosters business agility, sustainability, and a competitive edge through proactive and engaged risk leadership and management.
What It Does
- Empowers participants to take ownership of, think about, understand, and engage in risk management.
- Simplifies risk management, making it practical and relevant by asking, “What’s in it for me?”
- Recognises that risk management is an organisational capability that requires leadership and support to help people make informed choices.
- Demonstrates that good policies and processes alone don’t guarantee success; active engagement is essential.
- Emphasises the importance of understanding the business context of risk.
- Cultivates a common understanding and positive risk culture, highlighting that “people pay attention to what gets measured.”
- Balances qualitative and quantitative data, acknowledging both the art and science of risk management.
- Engages participants in the process, driving genuine participation and value rather than mere compliance.
What It Produces
- A deeper understanding of how people and culture impact the risk landscape.
- Assessment of skill and capability levels in the context of risk management.
- Identification of key gaps and critical risk vulnerabilities.
- Foundation of ‘shared understanding’ for more effective aligned action.
- Streamlined procedural burden on supervision by identifying overlap and redundancy of processes.
- Enhanced risk leadership to achieve high performance and increased organisational value for clients.
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