A message popped up from Anna saying: ‘I love your work Penny!’ Anna works as a lawyer in New Zealand. One day, Anna had to run a risk workshop, which is something she hadn’t done before. It was a bit of a challenge, with the CEO and other senior leaders involved. Actually, ‘a bit of […]
by Penny on 29th August 2012
Ruth and I (Penny) have an exciting challenge ahead this autumn. We’re about to launch a group programme to support those who need to facilitate risk in their organisations. We’re building on the successful Risk Facilitation workshop that we held in March, with participants travelling from the USA and all over the UK to attend. […]
by Penny on 24th January 2012
Ruth and I visited a range of venues for our Facilitating Risk Management workshop on 21-22nd March a few days ago. Although it was a cold day, the inside of this almost brand new hotel was warm and inviting. We’re delighted to have found such a stunning building for our first Facilitating Risk workshop of […]
by Penny on 12th December 2011
Penny was in Oxford on 1st December, presenting on ‘Making Risk Management Work’ to a large group of project managers. The group included risk managers from a huge range of industries, including defence, mining, power generation, mobile telephony, local government and more. We even had some post-graduates from Warwick University, researching into different aspects of […]
by Penny on 5th July 2011
Ruth and I seem to be travelling a lot at the moment. I’m in Dubai this week and Ruth was in Nigeria not long ago. However, travelling isn’t stopping us preparing for our book launch which starts next week. It’s a virtual Summit, focused on Making Risk Work. You can register for free here. What […]
Wow, time flies! We’re now in May and things are progressing well with the book. The final proof has now been approved for printing and the cover design is finalised. We’re getting closer and closer to the launch in July, but there will be more on that in a later post. Here’s an update for […]
by Penny on 16th March 2010
To make this book as relevant as possible for today’s risk faciltiators, I’m going on a mini tour to ask people about risk. Last month it was the turn of the British Computer Society’s project management special interest group: PROMSG. Here is what we covered that evening: In groups, people discussed the issues that they […]
by Penny on 22nd February 2010
This is the very first post for our blog on ‘Facilitating Risk’. Why are we blogging? Ruth Murray-Webster and I (Penny Pullan) are writing a book for Gower entitled ‘A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management: Engaging People to Identify, Own and Manage Risk’. We’re blogging because we would like to hear from you what […]