Understanding how to manage risk will greatly improve the success of your project. By mitigating project risks you are more likely to achieve the project objectives

1. Risk
Leadership
Implementing
a strategy
that works

2. “The potential of an action
or event to impact on the
achievement of objectives.”
Association of Project Management
Risk

3. Every project presents risks

4. Risk registers are used to
manage project risks

5. They typically address
physical/ more tangible
aspects

6. People risks are
harder to identify
and address
Creative Commons Torbakhopper

7. Risk leadership differs from
risk management

8. Alaine Karoleff

9. Often organisations
prioritise the physical and
tangible aspects of project
delivery

10. But 80% of projects fail due
to “people issues”
Harvard Business Review, 2005

11. Risk leadership is more
effective than risk
management

12. Manager Leader
Engaging • Communicate by
telling
• Expect people to do
things their
Team Work Expects “grown-ups” to
focus on the work
Making Decisions • Tell people what to do
• Maintain control

13. Manager Leader
Engaging • Communicate by
telling
• Expect people to do
things their
• Communicate by
listening first
• Encourage people to
find the best way
Team Work Expects “grown-ups” to
focus on the work
Actively works at
developing relationships
so team can become
“more than the sum of
its parts”
Making Decisions • Tell people what to do
• Maintain control
• Encourage people’s
understanding and
engagement so they
can make decisions at
the coal face
• Delegate intelligently

14. Analyse component risks
but feel people risks

15. Often people
react
emotionally
rather than
rationally - at
work and at
home
Creative Commons Zoe

16. Evidence – isn’t …unless it
fits what we want

17. Loss – drives us
more than gain
CreativeCommons Image Money

18. Brainstorming doesn’t
improve creativity

19. It can lead to the fixation
on an idea by a group
Psychology Today

20. Project competence survey
Had confidence to complete current project
Confidence in
themselves (75%)
Did not have
confidence in
themselves (25%)
Survey by Montydog Consulting

21. Project competence survey
Had confidence to complete current project
Confidence in other
project team members
(56%)
Did not have
confidence in other
members of project
team (44%)
Survey by Montydog Consulting

22. Project competence survey
Had confidence to complete a project
Confidence in team
delivering objectives
(44%)
Did not have
confidence in that
team achieving
objectives (54%)
Survey by Montydog Consulting

23. Daniel Kahneman,
psychologist, highlighted
our pervasive optimistic
bias. “We see ourselves
and … the goals we adopt
as more achievable than
they are”.
Creative Commons Daniel Spiess

24. Trust
Think
Adapt

25. Trust
Think
Adapt
each other
creatively
behaviours

26. For brain concepts with
huge implications, see our
Collaborative working –
understanding people
better deck

27. Do you think this project
can be delivered on time?
How confident are you that
this project will be
delivered on time?
Confidence Questions

28. Why are you confident?
What contributes to that
confidence?
Confidence Questions

29. What needs to change to
increase confidence?
Confidence Questions

30. Status
Certainty
Autonomy
Relatedness
Fairness
Dr David Rock, Neuroleadership Institute
Everyone needs

31. Be a “People Intelligent
Leader”

32. 1. Opportunity to lead
more intelligently by
focusing on people
People Intelligent Leaders

33. 2. You can change yourself,
your organisation and your
career
People Intelligent Leaders

34. 3. Risk leadership can be
very rewarding – so why
not seek that reward?
People Intelligent Leaders

35. Leaders Quick Risk Check Y/N?
Skilled Experienced Motivated Engaged
You as leader
Your team
Your
organisation
Your
customers

36. So to implement a risk
strategy that works…

37. Lead rather than manage

38. Acknowledge people risks

39. Understand how people
think

40. Work hard to connect and
motivate

41. Thank you
Clarkson Alliance in collaboration with Montydog Consulting
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