Taking Smart Risks offers invaluable insights into effective risk taking in today’s uncertain business climate. Participants learn that risk taking is key to contemporary business and personal success, and that it’s imperative to do much more than respond, anticipate, and cope.

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Taking Smart Risks is a practical, one-day, facilitator-led leadership effectiveness program. By participating in a variety of activities, learners discover how to use risk taking as a skill and a tool for meeting the uncertainty of today and shaping the future.
Taking smart risks is essential for success in today’s business environment. Doing so can help participants delight customers, do more with less, increase employee involvement, implement corporate reorganization, decrease cycle time, and advance performance.

After taking the program, learners will be able to:

• Identify perceptual and environmental factors that influence risk taking
• Differentiate between various risk-taking styles
• Be more flexible in their risk taking
• Recognize optimal opportunities for taking risks
• Use risk analysis skills to make more sound risk decisions
• Apply risk decision criteria to evaluate the advisability of taking specific risks
• Use risk analysis cycle rules and tools to judge when to take, avoid, or stop risks and cut losses