Risk management
Maps as an aid to planning
The map, below, will help you become more aware of how you manage risk now. The second map will help you decide how you want to manage risk in the future and give useful ideas on how to progress. These maps are very powerful tools. You will get the best out of them if you discuss your ideas with colleagues who can help you explore the implications and decide what to do.
This is a risk management map with one segment completed
Completing Risk Management Maps
In the central circle, above, you write your name. The next segments contain the major risks you see. It is always helpful to include things from outside work too. The next segments are what you would like to stop and start doing with each risk. Write in the final ring what the organisation could gain from these changes and who could help you with them. You won't have to do it all on your own.
The future map, below, should be written for a time a reasonable distance in the future, six months to two years is best. The information required should be obvious from the picture. When you use the two maps together, don't be too ambitious, pick one demand to work on first and consider small steps that you can take to improve matters. Later, you can tackle the world.
An example of a Future Map
Written by Nick Heap with thanks to Chris Bull who first suggested this general approach.
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