Risk jargon: Compound, complex, and confusing!

Description: Difficulties of risk as a concept and for risk communication, assessment, and action have led to a proliferation of vocabulary including compound, cascading, complex, extrinsic, and intrinsic as well as categories such as black swans and grey rhinos. Scrutiny reveals limitations in that many of these phrases add little value for understanding, communicating, assessing, or dealing with risks. This 40-minute webinar followed by 20 minutes of questions and discussion explores many common and populist risk-related words and phrases, deconstructing them to suggest questions about their usefulness and ways forward to improve, especially for risk assessment and management.

You will learn:

• Possibilities for reducing risk management jargon, to select those working for you.
• Why some common and populist phrases mislead us.
• Considerations for communicating and assessing risks in a variety of contexts.