How To Build A Risk System That Works

About this episode

Walt Sparling and Russ Parker discuss practical approaches to risk management in projects, emphasizing leadership and team communication.

Send us Fan Mail A risk register doesn’t save a project. Leadership does. Russ Parker joins me to get brutally practical about what “risk management” looks like when it’s more than a checkbox: leaders defining risk appetite, teams building the habit of talking about threats and opportunities, and project managers turning uncertainty into decisions executives can actually approve. We dig into how to start risk identification with evidence instead of a blank page. Russ shares why people and le...

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Host: Walt Sparling

Guest: Russ Parker

Topics covered

• risk management
• leadership
• project management
• decision making
• team communication

Keywords

• risk register
• risk appetite
• uncertainty
• evidence-based identification
• project success

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