Bryan’s Blog

Awareness of Bias

This is the last in a series of blogs about awareness to highlight Risk Awareness Week running online globally in October that I am presenting at. I’ve covered safety, sudden disruptions and awareness in the boardroom. Back in July this year I wrote about the key role risk advisers have in creating awareness of personal bias in leaders in organisations. If you haven’t

Unawareness in the Boardroom

This is the third in a series of blogs about awareness to highlight Risk Awareness Week running online globally in October that I am presenting at. I’ve covered awareness from a safety perspective and from the perspective of an organisation responding to a sudden major business disruption. This week I am thinking about awareness in the boardroom. Let’s face it,

Awareness During Disruption

As promised last week this blog is the second in a series of blogs about awareness. Why? Because of the upcoming Risk Awareness Week running online globally in October that I am presenting at. Last week I wrote about awareness from a safety perspective. This week I’m writing about awareness from the perspective of an organisation responding to a

Awarenessness

Recently I have been blogging about transparency and obfuscation in relation to decision making. For a few weeks I am going to blog about awareness. Why? Because of the upcoming Risk Awareness Week. It is the brainchild of Alex Sidorenko of the Risk-Academy blog, who is based in Spain. He has convinced me and a whole bunch of others

Obfuscation of Values

Last week I wrote about transparency of decision making as transparency builds trust. Staff can see how the values of the organisation have been applied. But what if your organisational values are obfuscated? That is, you have not stated them explicitly, explained them or done your best to ensure all staff understand them? First, staff may