Mastering Risk Workshop Facilitation Course
Become the facilitator people want in the room
Great risk workshops are not about creating a longer list of risks.
They are about creating the conversations that help people see what they might otherwise miss, challenge their thinking and make better decisions.
This course gives you the confidence, strategies and practical tools to facilitate risk workshops that achieve just that – whether you are working face-to-face or online.
And now, as AI becomes part of the way we work, you will also learn how to bring AI into your workshops as a facilitation aid, using it to generate insights, challenge thinking, uncover possibilities and support deeper risk assessment while keeping you firmly in control.
What you will learn
- How to prepare for a workshop to maximise the value delivered to participants.
- How to create the conditions for an engaging risk conversation, regardless of the participants, location or time available.
- How to facilitate conversations that uncover better insights, manage different perspectives and navigate politics, bias and difficult behaviours.
- How to use practical tools and techniques to deliver stronger insights to decision makers before, during and after the workshop.
- How to bring AI into your role as a facilitator, using AI to support preparation, generate insights, challenge assumptions and provide additional perspectives without outsourcing your judgement.
- How to apply AI risk assessment techniques to explore risks that may otherwise remain hidden.
Why this course matters
Risk workshops can easily become mechanical exercises in collecting risks, scoring them and moving on.
But the real value of a workshop comes from the quality of the conversations.
As a facilitator, your role is to create the environment where people can share what they know, challenge what they think they know and connect the dots across the organisation.
AI can now add another dimension to that process.
Used well, AI can help you prepare more thoroughly, introduce different perspectives, identify questions you may not have considered and challenge the group to think more deeply.
But AI does not replace the facilitator.
It cannot read the room, recognise when someone is holding back, navigate competing agendas or create the trust needed for people to say, “Now that I think about it…”
This course shows you how to combine the strengths of both: human facilitation and AI-enabled insight.
Course Overview
One: Preparation
- Objectives
Establish the context, purpose and scope of the workshop. - Team
Understand the people, politics, culture and capability that will influence the conversation. - Facility
Optimise the environment and work effectively with the constraints you have. - Analysis
Use tools, techniques and AI to prepare for the workshop and generate insights that can improve the conversation.
Two: Facilitation
- Framing
Introduce, confirm and clarify the purpose of the workshop so everyone understands what good looks like. - Conversations
Initiate, guide and close conversations that uncover meaningful insights. - Tipping Points
Recognise and navigate dominance, bias, silence, groupthink and other behaviours that can derail a productive workshop. - AI as a Facilitation Aid
Learn practical ways to use AI during preparation and facilitation to challenge assumptions, generate perspectives, identify gaps and stimulate deeper thinking — without allowing AI to take over the conversation. - Collation
Bring together the insights from the workshop and identify the priorities, breadth and depth that matter.
Three: Post-Mortem
- Objectives Check
Confirm whether the workshop delivered against its objectives and the organisation’s values and goals. - Reality Check
Test the results against facts, available resources and the “pub test” — would the people who need to act on this actually agree with it? - AI-Assisted Reflection
Use AI to help challenge the conclusions, identify unanswered questions and provide another perspective before the insights are taken to decision makers.
Four: Risk Assessment Techniques
You will be introduced to a range of risk assessment techniques you can bring to the table to create better conversations about uncertainty — and give people a structured way to think about what could go wrong, what could be missed and what needs to be considered before decisions are made.
Techniques include traditional brainstorming, bowtie and an AI specific technique to tackle the extra layers of complexity AI brings.
What you will take away
By the end of the course, you will have a practical approach to:
- Prepare and design engaging risk workshops.
- Facilitate conversations that generate meaningful insights rather than simply collect risks.
- Manage difficult people, politics, bias and competing perspectives.
- Facilitate both face-to-face and online workshops.
- Use AI as a practical aid before and during a workshop.
- Apply AI risk assessment techniques to explore risks more deeply.
- Challenge assumptions and improve the quality of the group’s thinking.
- Deliver insights that help decision makers make better sense of their world.
Most importantly, you will have greater confidence in your ability to guide a group through the conversations that matter.
Become a more valued risk adviser
When you can facilitate a workshop that gets people thinking differently, you become more than the person who organises the risk register: You become the person people want in the room when important decisions are being made.
That is the real objective of Mastering Risk Workshop Facilitation.
Not simply better workshops.
Better conversations. Better insights. Better decisions.
More of my insights on this workshop
Testimonials
“The workshop was really well presented, Bryan gave us a whole range of really great frameworks and tips and tricks that we can take back to our companies and assist us in preparing for running a really successful risk workshop with our stakeholders and getting a really good outcome. It was really fun and I highly recommend it to everyone out there.”
Christina McLean – Senior Risk Advisor
About Bryan
Bryan helps boards, executive teams and senior leaders make confident strategic decisions under uncertainty and turn alignment into action. His work combines strategy and risk facilitation, leadership capability development and practical implementation support.
Bryan is the 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 is a Certified Chief Risk Officer (CCRO), former President and Chair of the Risk Management Institution of Australasia (RMIA), and designer and facilitator of the RMIA’s flagship Enterprise Risk Management course.
About the course
This is an interactive online course delivered over two half-days, with ample opportunity to participate, practise, share experiences and learn from others.
The course is designed for risk professionals who want to move beyond mechanical risk identification and develop the skills to facilitate conversations that create real value for their organisation.
Whether you are an experienced facilitator looking to sharpen your skills or a risk professional who has been asked to lead workshops and wants to become more confident, this course will give you practical techniques you can put to work immediately.
Course Details
Format: Online interactive learning
Duration: Two half-day workshops, 4 hours each
Total: 8 hours
Delivery: Zoom
SESSION 1 (4hours)
1:00pm – 5:00pm AEDT Tuesday, 27 October
SESSION 2 (4 hours)
9:00am – 1:00pm AEDT Thursday, 29 October
Price: $1,725.00 incl. GST
Group Bookings: For Group Bookings, please contact Bryan’s Team HERE