Project Management Deep Dive Risk Management

🎯 Objective:

Train project managers to detect, assess, and respond to risks with clarity and confidence—without getting buried in bureaucracy or theory.

⏱️ Format Overview:

• Duration: 6 hours total
• Structure: 3 x 2-hour sessions (over Zoom)
• Audience: Mid to senior-level project managers, program managers, executives
• Style: Interactive | Practical

📆 Session Breakdown

🟦 Session 1: Rethinking Risk (2 hrs)

Theme: From reactive to strategic

🔹 Part 1: Mindset Shift

• Why most risk management fails
• Reframing risk as opportunity
• Personal Risk Profile (live self-assessment)

🔹 Part 2: Seeing the Unseen

• Spotting early warning signs
• Tools: Premortems, Red Teaming, Stakeholder Lens
• Group Exercise: “Ambush My Project” (live drill)

🟨 Session 2: Triaging & Responding (2 hrs)

Theme: Action-oriented decision-making

🔹 Part 1: Risk Prioritization

• Risk isn’t just likelihood × impact
• Frameworks for triage under time pressure
• Group Simulation: Triage 10 surprise risks

🔹 Part 2: Building Your Playbook

• The 4 strategic responses: avoid, transfer, reduce, exploit
• Case-Based Workshop: Build playbooks for top 3 risks

🟩 Session 3: Making Risk a Team Sport (2 hrs)

Theme: Culture, communication, and leadership under uncertainty

🔹 Part 1: Monitoring + Communication

• Making risk part of team rituals
• Early warnings, escalations, and update rhythm
• Create: Your team’s “Risk Cadence Map”

🔹 Part 2: Final Simulation

• Live Scenario: “Risk Storm” – time-pressured group project
• Decision-making under evolving uncertainty
• Debrief + Commitment: 1 change you’ll implement immediately

✅ Final Deliverables:

• Risk Radar
• Risk Priority Matrix
• Risk Response Playbook
• Risk Communication Cadence

🛠️ Tools & Templates Provided:

• Personal Risk Profile
• Premortem Planner
• Risk Radar Canvas
• Triage Grid
• Playbook Builder
• Communication Cadence Map

Register below for the 6-8 May Course (2-4 PM Eastern Each Day)