BCMS Training

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Training

A practical, awareness-level course on enterprise risk and how it links to business continuity and operational resilience.

People who own, oversee or act on risk.

Boards and executives

Leaders who set risk appetite and need to read and challenge risk reporting.

Risk owners

Managers accountable for particular risks and their entries in the register.

BCM and operational risk teams

Practitioners who want to connect risk assessment to continuity and resilience work.

Organisations in the GCC

Delivered for teams across the Gulf, with examples that fit regional organisations.

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Eight topics, from concepts to reporting.

ERM concepts and ISO 31000 principles

What ERM is and the principles of ISO 31000, at awareness level.

Risk appetite and tolerance

How to express how much risk is acceptable and when to act.

Risk identification and assessment

Finding risks and judging likelihood and impact.

Risk registers

What a good entry looks like, and how to keep the register current.

Key risk indicators

Early warning measures with thresholds that trigger action.

Risk treatment

Choosing to avoid, reduce, transfer or accept a risk.

Reporting

What leaders and the board need to see, and how often.

Linking ERM to continuity and resilience

How the risk view feeds business continuity and operational resilience.

What participants can do afterwards.

  • Explain ERM and the main ISO 31000 principles in plain language.
  • Describe risk appetite and tolerance, and how they guide decisions.
  • Identify and assess risks using a simple likelihood and impact scale.
  • Write a risk register entry with an owner, controls and actions.
  • Choose key risk indicators and set thresholds for them.
  • Describe the main risk treatment options and how risk is reported.
  • Explain how ERM links to business continuity and operational resilience.
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In-house or online, tailored to you.

ADVOX delivers the course in-house at your premises or online. The duration is tailored to your audience and goals, from a half day to two days. Fees and dates are agreed with you after a short scope call.

This is an awareness-level course from ADVOX. It is not a professional certification and is not accredited or endorsed by ISO or the BCI.

Learning by doing.

Build a simple risk register

Participants draft register entries for realistic risks, with ratings, owners and actions.

Set a risk appetite statement

Groups write a short statement and test it against example decisions.

A short scenario workshop

A brief scenario shows how a risk becomes an incident and how continuity arrangements respond.

Consulting, staffing and background reading.

ERM Consulting supports your framework, register and workshops. What is ERM? explains the basics before the course.

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Talk to ADVOX about ERM Training.

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