ABSTRACT
Workshops are just part of the risk process, but they’re a very important part, which we’ll cover in this chapter.
Why are workshops so important? They are where representatives of different areas get together. In a workshop, you are able to generate ideas as a group, build consensus and agreement, and come up with decisions. Often, you can sort out differences and misunderstandings immediately. If you design your process well, you can build shared ownership of outcomes. In workshops, people can be listened to, feel heard by others and give voice to concerns. When people have the opportunity to work together on outputs, workshops can be so much more than dumping grounds of all of the risks that people could dream up individually. In a workshop, there’s a chance to deal with different perceptions of what is risky and why. You can also challenge any bias
that can so easily occur, such as ‘groupthink’ or other sources of bias as covered in Appendix A in Chapter 2. All of these workshop benefits will only come with good facilitation.
