Resources: The HR Function and Risk Management

Welcome to CRF’s HR and Risk Management resource page.

We have produced a number of resources and tools for you to use amongst your team, whether presenting, facilitating a team meeting, or running a scenario exercise.

Here is a brief summary of each item, its purpose, who it’s relevant for and where to use it

We hope these are beneficial and welcome your feedback on them to help us improve them further.

Please email will@crforum.co.uk with all thoughts and views.

Presentation Deck and Notes: Research Overview

This slide deck provide a short, 15 minute overview of the research for those who have not read it or need a refresher. Complete with detailed speaker notes, it can either be sent around internally for people to read or be presented internally. Expected duration 15-30 minutes.

Ratings and Questions: Evaluating your approach to risk management

This word document provides a check list and set of questions to evaluate what your organisation is doing well and where there are opportunities for improvement in your approach to people-mediated risk. This is best used amongst relevant members of the HRLT in a meeting. Expected duration 30-90 minutes.

Workshop Presentation Deck: Conditions, Signals, Actions Framework

If you have already evaluated your approach to risk, this framework provides a basis for continuous assessing risk within the organisation. By looking at where risk is building, how it might escalate and what actions to take, it offers a practical lens for discussion. Best used as part of a team meeting. Expected duration 30-90 minutes.

Scenario Exercise: The Global Talent Shock

Provided by Prof. Elmar Kutsch, a speaker from the research launch event, use this scenario to move away from a risk register approach to instead build anticipatory foresight. This provides an opportunity to visualise in a different way some of the elements mentioned in the conditions, signals, actions framework. There is a case study, polarity map, and critical drivers sheet. To be used in a meeting amongst a wider set of stakeholders, it is recommended to have the case study on screen with a printed copy for each group of the critical drivers and polarity map. Expected duration 45-60 minutes

You can access the full research and webinar video here.

Sponsored by Bird & Bird and RHR, this report outlines how the enterprise risk landscape is changing and the essential role HR plays in managing risk. It provides insight into: 

• How and where people-related risk is building, with a particular focus on employee relations, cyber and talent. 
• The ways HR can detect early signals and influence risk before it escalates. 
• Practical frameworks and real-world examples that support organisational readiness and decision-making under pressure.