M_o_R® Practitioner

Course Outline

M_o_R® (Management of Risk) Practitioner is a 5-day non-residential course with nightly homework, which covers the OGC’s M_o_R® methodology and syllabi for both M_o_R® Foundation and Practitioner exams. M_o_R® is a Registered Trade Mark and a Registered Community Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce.

A recent National Audit Office report identified that "there are risks involved in doing things differently and new forms of service delivery need to be implemented in such a way that minimises the risk of them failing or the quality of public services not being maintained or improved." Indeed, the Management of Risk has increasingly been recognised as a key factor in protecting an organisation's investors, its profit margins, and/or its quality of service delivery.

Organisations of all sizes are now taking seriously the need for business continuity. The Management of Risk (M_o_R®) approach, encouraged by the Office of Government Commerce, is intended to help organisations put in place effective frameworks for taking informed decisions about risk. Benefits include improved decision-making, the control of threats to an organisation achieving its objectives, and staff awareness of how to assess and pro-actively manage risk across the whole organisation.

We help you to apply M_o_R® to a typical organisational environment during the course so you will gain practical skills by using the techniques to handle real issues. Class sizes are kept small to facilitate lecturer – student interaction and class discussion. You are provided with sufficient knowledge of the method to enable you to act as a risk manager on a project or programme, or to develop a risk management framework at any other level of the organisation (e.g. corporate, programme, project, operational).

The optional exams can be taken during the course as follows:
The Foundation exam is a 45-minute, multiple-choice paper consisting of 45 questions in which you must get 50% correct in order to pass. The paper is taken on the Thursday afternoon at the end of the training and marked straight away so that you know your mark before leaving the course.
The Practitioner exam is a 3-hour, open-book, case study with three sections. Questions in the first section cover how to manage risk at all of the levels within an organisation’s management hierarchy. The second section focuses on the application of risk management from the programme and project perspectives within the management hierarchy. The third section applies risk management to the operational organisational perspective. As you will have to complete a question from each section, you will have to answer questions relating to three of the organisational perspectives from which you may work in your organisation. The paper is taken on the Friday morning, and the papers are all returned to The APM Group for marking, which takes approximately 8 weeks. We will advise you of your result as soon as the information is available. Practitioner certificates are raised for successful candidates, and Foundation certificates are raised for unsuccessful Practitioner candidates to show they have passed at Foundation level.

This course has been accredited by the APMG who are the examining body for M_o_R® and responsible for all aspects of the provision of exams including setting, marking, feedback and appeals. Scoll Methods, as an accredited training organisation, acts as their agent in providing administrative facilities.

What You Will Learn

Introduction

• What is risk and risk management?
• Why is risk management important?
• Recent developments in risk management
• Corporate governance and internal control
• Where and when risk management should be used

Risk Management Principles

• Explanation of 12 risk management principles
• Risk management healthchecks
• Risk management maturity models

Risk Management Approach

• Issue Log
• Risk Management Policy
• Risk Management Process Guide
• Risk Management Strategy
• Risk Register

Risk Management Process

• Identifying the organisational context and risks
• Assessing the risks
• Planning management response actions
• Implementing management response actions
• Communicating 

Embedding and Reviewing Risk Management

Organisational Persepctives

• Strategic
• Programme
• Project
• Operational

Risk Specialisms

• Business Continuity Management
• Incident (Crisis) Management
• Health and Safety
• Security
• Financial risk management

"Hands-on" Risk Management Practice

• Risk Management Techniques practice
• Exam practice questions
• Exam case study practice