Course Details
Duration: AEDT (UTC+11:00)
SESSION 1 (4 hours)
1:00pm - 5:00pm Tuesday 27 October 2026
SESSION 2 (4 hours)
9:00am - 1:00pm Thursday 29 October 2026
Delivery: Online
Costs:
RMIA Members $1,440.00 (incl GST)
Non-Members $1,725.00 (incl GST)
CPD Points: 12
Course details
Unlock your potential as a risk management professional with the Mastering Risk Workshop Facilitation course, presented by Bryan Whitefield Consulting in partnership with RMIA.
This premier training program is designed to transform your facilitation skills and ensure that your risk management workshops achieve exceptional outcomes. This course covers advanced techniques for managing group dynamics, strategic workshop design, and the application of risk management frameworks. Participants will engage in practical exercises to handle real-world scenarios and receive expert feedback to enhance their facilitation effectiveness. Ideal for risk managers, facilitators, project managers, and compliance officers, this course equips you with the tools to lead impactful workshops and achieve successful risk management outcomes.
Key topics covered:
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 workshop environment and work effectively within the constraints available.
Analysis
Use practical 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 participants have a shared understanding of what a successful outcome 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 affect the quality of a workshop.
AI as a Facilitation Aid
Explore practical ways to use AI during workshop preparation and facilitation to challenge assumptions, generate different perspectives, identify gaps and stimulate deeper thinking, while keeping the facilitator firmly in control of the conversation.
Collation
Bring workshop insights together 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 workshop outcomes against facts, available resources and whether the people responsible for acting on the outcomes are likely to agree with them.
AI-Assisted Reflection
Use AI to challenge conclusions, identify unanswered questions and introduce additional perspectives before insights are presented to decision-makers.
Four: Risk Assessment Techniques
Explore a range of risk assessment techniques that can help create better conversations about uncertainty and provide participants with structured ways to consider what could go wrong, what may have been missed and what needs further consideration before decisions are made.
Techniques include traditional brainstorming, bowtie analysis and an AI-specific risk assessment technique designed to explore the additional layers of complexity introduced by AI.
About the Trainer
Bryan Whitefield is a management consultant operating since 2001, specialising in risk-based decision making and influencing decision makers, born from his more than twenty years of facilitating executive and board workshops. Bryan’s experience as a risk practitioner includes the design and implementation of risk management programs for more than 150 organisations across the public, private and not-for- profit sectors. Bryan is the author of DECIDE: How to Manage the Risk in Your Decision Making, Persuasive Advising: How to Turn Red Tape into Blue Ribbon and Risky Business: How Successful Organisations Embrace Uncertainty (#1 Amazon Best Seller). Bryan was President and Chair of the RMIA from 2013 – 2015, is licenced as a Certified Chief Risk Officer (CCRO) and is the designer and facilitator of the RMIA’s flagship Enterprise Risk Course since 2019.
For more information on Bryan you can email him at bryan@bryanwhitefield.com or visit his website www.bryanwhitefield.com
Group Bookings: For Group Bookings, please contact us via email on pdp@rmia.org.au or by phone on 1300 775 648.
When you register for this course you agree to the RMIA passing your registration details onto our Training Partner, Bryan Whitefield Consulting.