I was a Boy Scout. Since 1907 the motto of the global Scouting program has been, “Be Prepared”. Yet the 2023 Scout Jamboree was woefully unprepared for a myriad of severe weather-related issues that befell it in South Korea in early August. Continue reading
There are thousands of studies on leadership. We have a multitude of postings on social media as well as a myriad of academic tombs, dissertations, and theses as to what leadership is and sometimes what it isn’t. People strive to understand leadership be it inspirational, transformational, situational, charismatic, transactional, autocratic, democratic, strong, or weak…the qualifiers go on. Continue reading
Exercises are an essential part of skills development and, for things like emergencies and crises, the only way to build these skills outside of an actual event, events that are thankfully few and far between. But creating a successful exercise takes a lot of work and planning – you can’t just throw some problems at a group of people and hope they’ll learn from the experience.
So how do you plan a great crisis exercise? Continue reading
According to the definition in ISO 31000, risk is the impact of uncertainty on [achieving] your objectives. Of course, this impact can be both negative or positive. ISO 31000 states the following:
“Clause 6.4.2 Risk identification: The organisation should identify risks, whether or not their sources are under its control.
Clause 6.4.3 Risk analysis: The effectiveness of existing Continue reading
Becoming a risk manager can seem to be more art than science. There’s not a clear pathway from degree to junior risk manager to senior risk manager to CRO (Chief Risk Officer) in the same way that you can chart the progress from freshly minted CPA (Certified Public Accountant) to head of Ernst & Young. (Financial risk management is the exception here as there is usually a clear path there.)
So why is the risk manager career path fuzzy compared to other professions? Continue reading