Common Risk Management Errors That Can Ruin Your Career

Do you want to control your projects instead of having them control you? Managing risks could be the answer—but avoiding the mistakes others have made is key to overall project success. Two International studies conducted by Rita Mulcahy have shown that MOST companies are repeatedly making the same mistakes when it comes to Risk Management. Don't fall into these traps! This humorous and informative presentation will provide you with a list of the most common Risk Management errors—ones that have the potential to cost you your job—as well as tips on how to avoid them.

In addition to being offered publicly, this four-hour workshop is perfect for large groups—including corporations and PMI® chapters—that cannot make a two day training commitment. If one of our public courses doesn't fit your organization's schedule, this workshop can be given by request to groups of 30 to 250 registrants. As part of the overall training package for private courses, host organizations have the option of using RMC's Internet-based class registration system to make reservations, receive payments, and act as a central registering location for the event.

This course is offered in both public and onsite versions. If interested in hosting an onsite course, please click here to read more about our onsite courses and complete a request form.

Course Description

Through presentation, exercises and examples this course will cover the process of risk management, explain the errors people make each step of the way and provide Tricks of the Trade® from around the world for advanced risk management. Based on Rita Mulcahy's award winning book Risk Management Tricks of the Trade for Project Managers, this captivating course is full of real world information.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course you will be able to:

• Describe the risk management process
• Improve your ability to identify risks for your real world projects
• Identify gaps in your knowledge that may hurt you and your projects
• Identify errors others are making so that you can avoid them
• Apply many new Tricks of the Trade® to your projects
• Be a better project manager

Target Audience

This course is ideal for people who need advanced project management training or who already have an understanding of risk management and wish to focus on the tricks of the trade and common errors. It is also an excellent way to learn something useful while collecting PDUs.