I got caught the other day sharing a study on how the coronavirus spreads when you run, however it turns out the study is not a true scientific study, just conjecture. Fortunately I could correct the sharing of the fake news rather easily, however it highlighted in todays world, , how easy it is to …
Category archives: Leadership for Risk Managers
Social Capital
Separating the culture of compliance into people and process If you were given two options, a 2% or 8% improvement in your risk management processes, which would you choose? As with everyone else in any organization, risk managers are expected to deliver more and get more from their current resources. We’re expected to deliver more …
Trust and Risk Managers
It goes without saying that the integrity of any process is dependent upon the amount of trust everyone has in the process. So, the question I have is; what is the level of trust whether it’s those being supervised or those doing the supervision in any risk management program? I’ve always assumed that as a risk …
Perceiving risk managers for their strategic value versus technical expertise
Over the past many years, I’ve come across risk management publications and articles that have questioned the role that risk management plays in many organizations, these publications question the value that risk management can create or preserve. While there are quite a few publications talking about new tools or systems that risk managers can deploy …
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Transformational Risk Managers
In a previous posting, I described the need for risk managers to become more of a strategic partner for other departments in an organization. The one big obstacle that risk managers will need to overcome is the transactional mindset that is at the heart of risk management. Risk managers have the three lines of defense …