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Risk Culture for Everyone
Understanding how everyday behaviours shape risk outcomes and contribute to organisational success
About this course
Risk isn't just managed through policies, frameworks or specialist risk teams—it's managed every day through the decisions people make when no one is watching. A strong risk culture helps organisations achieve better outcomes, manage uncertainty more effectively and prevent small issues from developing into significant incidents.
This course explores the practical, day-to-day behaviours that have the greatest impact on risk culture, including speaking up, challenging respectfully, remaining risk-aware and making balanced risk-reward decisions.
Participants will learn how informal and often subconscious risk management behaviours are supported by formal frameworks and governance structures, how responsibilities differ across the organisation, and why risk culture requires ongoing reinforcement. By the end of the course, learners will feel confident doing the right thing, positively influencing those around them and contributing to a strong and sustainable risk culture.
Course specifics
Audience: This course is designed for employees, managers, leaders and anyone who contributes to decision-making and organisational culture as part of their role.
Cost: $99.00 (members), $120.00 (non-members)
Facilitator: The Protecht Group
Format: On-Demand
Time: Approximately 20 minutes
CPD Points: 1
Course Facilitator:
The Protecht Group
Course details
Risk culture influences how people think about risk, respond to uncertainty and make decisions in their day-to-day work. While policies, frameworks and processes provide important guidance, it is ultimately people and behaviours that determine how effectively risk is managed across an organisation.
This course provides a practical introduction to risk culture and its role in supporting organisational objectives. Participants will explore the relationship between culture, behaviours and outcomes, learn what defines a strong risk culture and understand how individual actions contribute to collective success.
The course also examines the responsibilities of employees, management and governing bodies in shaping and maintaining risk culture, while highlighting the importance of ongoing reinforcement to ensure positive behaviours remain embedded over time.
Key topics covered:
1. The importance of risk culture
Understanding the relationship between risk culture and organisational outcomes
How culture influences decision-making and behaviour
People and culture as the foundation of effective risk management
The impact of strong and weak risk cultures on organisational performance
2. Defining risk culture
What is organisational culture?
What is risk culture?
How culture develops within organisations
The relationship between culture, behaviours and outcomes
Common sources of cultural issues and challenges
3. Features of good risk culture
Ten practical behaviours that support a positive risk culture
Encouraging openness, accountability and constructive challenge
Building risk awareness into everyday decisions
Making balanced risk-reward decisions
Creating an environment where people feel confident speaking up
4. Responsibilities for risk culture
Understanding why everyone is a risk manager
Individual responsibilities for supporting positive risk culture
Leadership responsibilities in shaping culture
Board and management responsibilities for oversight and reinforcement
The role of influence and example-setting across the organisation
5. When is risk culture developed?
Understanding the concept of "culture creep"
How culture evolves over time
The importance of regular reinforcement
Embedding risk culture into everyday activities and decision-making
Sustaining positive cultural behaviours over the long term
Learning outcomes:
Explain what risk culture is and why it is important.
Understand the relationship between culture, behaviours and organisational outcomes.
Recognise the characteristics of a strong and effective risk culture.
Apply practical behaviours that support positive risk management and decision-making.
Understand the responsibilities of individuals, leaders and governing bodies in shaping risk culture.
Contribute to the ongoing development and reinforcement of a strong, sustainable risk culture.