When you want to make a key point to a senior leader, a story is often the secret sauce you will need for it to land. Last week I wrote about the effect of the environment people find themselves in based on their willingness, or not, to take a risk to achieve a target. If
Bula! I’ve recently returned from a holiday in Fiji. When holidaying I often compare and contrast the local attitude to risk. Think road safety in some places of the world! Feels like complete insanity to us on first look and reduces to mild levels of insanity once you become more accustomed. Road safety in Fiji
You can’t influence everyone you need to. You need help. You need influencers. Early last year I wrote an article about developing your change agents. In it I explained that developing a community of change agents is a hugely effective way of multiplying your impact many times over. In the risk space they are often
When you (or the business area you support) are articulating a risk profile to the board, make sure you tell them about the opportunities the risk profile provides. Why? Because according to Peter Drucker, leaders should focus on investing in opportunities, not problems.[1] This will hold the most for organisations focused on risk taking, encompassing
You should be telling your board a story rather than overload them with hundreds of pages of information for a board meeting. I know the problem, people want “summary in detail” as I wrote last year in a blog. That is, even when you provide them with a fair bit of context, someone always wants