Education

Learn to manage risk well — not just to use the software

Short, practical videos on the craft of risk management: writing risks that last, scoring without emotion, building controls an auditor will accept. Good practice first, product second. Free to watch, whether or not you use RiskQuilt.

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New videos are added as the catalogue rolls out.

R1 · 2:02 What counts as a risk? Distinguishing risks from issues, consequences, and worries. "Financial loss" is not a risk; "supplier failure leading to financial loss" is. The single most common authoring mistake — and the right place to start.
R2 · 2:04 How to write an actionable risk A risk earns its place by driving a decision. Write the scenario and the impact you actually mean — specific enough to act on, durable enough to outlast this quarter’s news.
R3 · 3:03 When to split a risk You can split almost any risk; the question is whether you need to. Two signals say yes: when a single score can no longer tell both stories, and when the risk needs two separate conversations. The test is not whether it can be divided, but whether you can still justify keeping it as one.
R4 · 2:07 How to tailor a risk to its audience The same situation usually feeds more than one risk. A team manager’s version and the board’s version can both be well-written and still belong in different rooms. When a risk feels out of place, it may not be badly written — just aimed at the wrong audience.
S1 · 3:04 How to score without emotion Scoring feels like the simple part, but it is where your credibility sits. Two habits keep it honest: score against the agreed criteria rather than the word that sounds right, and check where the score sits next to everything else. Mark everything high and no one can tell real alarm from reflex.

Why we make these

Most organisations at our scale don't have a risk specialist to learn from. The difference between a risk register people trust and one they ignore usually comes down to craft — how a risk is worded, how a score is justified, how a control is described. These videos teach that craft directly, in a few minutes each. No jargon, no theory for its own sake.

The curriculum

23 short videos, eight themes

The full series covers risks, controls, events, and the links between them. Videos go live progressively — check back, or start your trial to see them in-app against the screen you're working on.

Risks: identifying and expressing

R1 What counts as a risk? Available Telling risks apart from issues, consequences, and worries.
R2 How to write an actionable risk Available A risk exists to drive action — commit to the impact and the scenario you actually mean.
R3 When to split a risk Available Keeping a register you can actually speak to — and spotting when one risk has quietly become two.
R4 How to tailor a risk to its audience Available Pitching a risk at the level its owner can actually act on — board or department.

Risks: scoring

S1 How to score without emotion Available Reading the criteria, not the label — and sense-checking the score against everything else.
S2 How to judge likelihood honestly Coming soon Frequency anchors, and "I haven’t seen it" vs "it doesn’t happen".
S3 How to size impact realistically Coming soon Worst plausible vs worst conceivable.
S4 How to use all three scores Coming soon What inherent, residual, and target each commit you to.

Risks: ownership and review

O1 How to pick a real owner Coming soon The accountability test: decide, or only report?
O2 How to write a useful review note Coming soon What changed, what didn’t, what you considered.

Controls: writing

C1 What makes a control clear? Coming soon The new-joiner test for an executable control.
C2 How to cover the three essentials Coming soon Frequency, evidence, owner — the structural minimum.
C3 How to describe what the control does Coming soon What’s reviewed, by whom, against what, with what outcome.

Controls: assessment

CA1 How to check the control’s design Coming soon Design adequacy as distinct from operating effectiveness.
CA2 How to check the control is working Coming soon Evidence-based assessment, beyond "nothing has gone wrong".

Controls: audit-readiness

CAR1 How to make a control audit-safe Coming soon The gap between "we do this" and "we can show we do this".
CAR2 What makes evidence defensible? Coming soon The evidence note that needs no explanation.

Events: the two modes

E0 What is an event? Coming soon Event log vs risk, issue, or observation.
E1 What’s worth noting? Coming soon The 30-second memory-aid event, without over-writing.
E2 How to capture a live event Coming soon A running narrative that doesn’t lose the thread.
E3 How to close an event properly Coming soon What happened, what was done, what changed as a result.

Relationships

REL1 Why control links matter Coming soon The difference between "relevant to" and "treats".
REL2 Why event links matter Coming soon How a link turns orphaned data into evidence.

The right video, on the right screen

Inside RiskQuilt, the relevant guide is one click away on the screen it applies to — so help arrives exactly when someone needs it, not buried in a manual.

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