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Date: 11/29/2008

Subject RE: Reasons for Risk Workshops failing to deliver accurate quantitative information

Group: Global EHS Online Software Solutions

Andy Evans wrote:

Gavin Some of the '19 possible defects' are hazards to the risk assessment process. Perhaps you might care to risk assess each one!

Certainly the potential for 'group-think', 'reluctance to challenge the status quo (or plan)', 'a desire to get the right answer (i.e all is ok) and 'complacency' can be problems.

Looking at your 19 though I struggle to see how a workshop ' damages the camaraderie of the team' so much thatt is better to see the team individually.

Equally you solution seems to me to involve an even greater requirement for a skilled facilitator and probably will involve more facilitator time (as they are working 1-1 with each participant) which would suggest more consultants should be favouring your technique on revenue grounds!

And you state: "There is research to indicate that workshops and group brain-storming sessions do not produce any more creative thinking or better results than that produced by the individuals alone." But what does the research say on the level of agreement with the results? To my mind one reason for a workshop is so that there will be buy-in where action is required to reduce risk.

Andy Evans
Senior Aviation Advisor at AviateQ International