Live workshopLeadership Development training for teams
Increasing Performance Through Project Risk Management
- Built around your actual work
- Live online, or on-site by request
- Training careers nationwide since 2006
Workshop brief
Increasing Performance Through Project Risk Management
- Duration
- 2 Days (16 hrs; 4 sessions)
- Tuition
- $695.00per participant; team and private pricing by quote
- Delivery
- Live onlineOn-site, in person, by request
- Included
- Certificate of completionFor every participant
Every failed project had a risk register nobody read.
Almost every project post mortem finds that somebody saw it coming. It was often written down. The register was built in week one, filed, and never opened again, and the risk that sank the project was either on it and ignored, or was the one nobody wanted to say out loud.
This workshop treats risk management as a decision-making discipline rather than documentation. Participants learn to surface risks that are politically uncomfortable, assess them by likelihood and exposure rather than instinct, and distinguish the risk to actively manage from the one to accept and move on. Over two days there is room to work through their own projects properly.
Senior leaders and program managers use this on initiatives where failure is expensive and predictable in hindsight. HR and learning and development leaders use it where the same categories of problem keep recurring across different projects, which usually means the risk process is theater. It is the risk-focused companion to Project Management Fundamentals and Improving Project Communications and Stakeholder Management.
Content, scenarios, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery. Most groups train live online, and on-site in-person delivery is available by request. This workshop is available by request only, with a three participant minimum, and sits alongside our other leadership development workshops.
Why teams book DWC
- Content, datasets, and examples built around your work before delivery
- Live online with a real instructor, or on-site at your location
- Invoicing and purchase order documentation for your organization
What your team gets
This course includes
- Live, instructor led workshop delivered over four 4-hour sessions
- Risk identification and assessment on a real initiative you bring
- Techniques for surfacing risks that carry a social cost to naming
- A working risk register with triggers that you complete during the workshop
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Course outline
How the workshop runs
Every session is live with a real instructor, and the exercises are built around your team's work.
Day one is identification, and the hard part is not technique. Participants work on their own initiative and practice surfacing the risks that are awkward: the dependency on a team that has missed every deadline, the sponsor who may not last the project, the assumption everyone is making and nobody has tested. They learn why the most dangerous risks are the ones with a social cost to naming.
The rest of day one is assessment. Participants learn to score by likelihood and impact rather than by how recently they were burned, calculate exposure so that a high-probability nuisance does not outrank a low-probability catastrophe, and recognize when they are anchoring on the last thing that went wrong.
Day two is response and maintenance. Participants build responses with triggers, so a mitigation fires on a condition rather than on somebody remembering. They practice escalating a risk that a sponsor does not want escalated, running a review that changes decisions, and keeping a register alive past week one. They leave with a working register for a real project.
Outcomes
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Surface risks that are politically uncomfortable to name
- Test the assumption everyone is making and nobody has checked
- Score risk by likelihood and exposure rather than by recent experience
- Tell a risk to actively manage from one to accept and move on
- Build responses that trigger on a condition, not on someone remembering
- Escalate a risk a sponsor does not want escalated
- Keep a risk register working past week one
Duration
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop. It is designed for managers, program leads, and senior staff accountable for delivery. Teams that need the underlying project structure first can pair it with Project Management Fundamentals.
Format
Online for most groups; on-site delivery by request.
Dates and options
Join a public session or book your teamBook this workshop for your team
Public sessions
Train your team privately
Schedule this workshop for your team, live online or on-site, with content built around your work. Tell us your group size, goals, and target dates.
How team training works
From first call to trained team
- 20,000+Participants trained
- 90%Completion rate
- 1,500+Organizations served
Scope it
A short call about your team, your tools, and what needs to change after the session.
Customize it
Your instructor builds examples, exercises, and datasets around your actual work before delivery.
Deliver it live
Live online for most groups, or on-site at your location, scheduled around your team.
Make it stick
Every participant leaves with reference materials and a certificate of completion.
Pricing
Tuition and ways to buy
$695.00 per participant
Increasing Performance Through Project Risk Management is available by request only, scheduled around your team.
- $695 per participant, with a three participant minimum
- Private training: request a custom quote. One on one sessions and teams below the three participant minimum are priced case by case
- Larger groups: request a custom quote. We price larger cohorts case by case based on group size, schedule, and delivery format
- Optional courseware: the Project Risk Management Student Guide (Logical Operations) is available at $60 per participant and is not included in the course price
Colorado state agencies, higher education institutions, cities, counties, school districts, and certified nonprofits may purchase this course directly through our State of Colorado Price Agreement. Request a quote and we will build pricing around your team.
- Per participant
Enroll a few employees at the per-participant rate.
- Private team session
Your group only, built around your data, tools, and schedule.
- Invoice your organization
DWC invoices your company directly and provides purchase order documentation.
- Multi-workshop programs
Combine workshops into a series for a department or a cohort of new managers.
Leadership Development training
Leadership training for managers and emerging leaders
Most managers were promoted for being good at the work, not for leading people who do it. DWC leadership training gives new and experienced managers practical tools for motivating and managing performance, leading change, improving processes, and developing the next generation of leaders through talent management and succession planning.
Workshops are built around your organization's real situations before delivery, and they combine well into a leadership development series for a cohort of new managers.
Can you customize this workshop for our team?
Yes. Content, datasets, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery, so participants practice on the files, tools, and situations they deal with every day.
Is the training online or on-site?
Most groups train live online with a real instructor. On-site, in-person delivery is available by request.
Is there a minimum group size?
Most workshops booked for a team have a three participant minimum, and the Tuition section on each workshop page lists its exact terms. One-on-one sessions and smaller groups are priced case by case, and larger groups are quoted based on group size, schedule, and delivery format.
Is this training for new managers or experienced leaders?
Both. Workshops range from managerial leadership for new supervisors to leading change, talent management, and succession planning for experienced leaders.
Can leadership workshops be combined into a program?
Yes. Many organizations combine several workshops into a leadership development series for a cohort of managers, scheduled around their work.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Every participant receives a certificate of completion, along with digital learning materials and take-home reference guides.
Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. DWC invoices your organization directly and provides purchase order documentation.
Can individual employees join a public session?
When a workshop has public dates, they appear in the Dates section of this page with a registration button. If none are listed, request a quote and we will share your options.
Bring this workshop to your team
Tell us about your group and your goals. A training advisor follows up within one business day with options and pricing.