Facilitate a risk and control self-assessment workshop
Plans a risk and control self-assessment session with business owners: agenda, prompts, a rating guide, and a capture template.
The prompt
Help me plan and run a risk and control self-assessment (RCSA) workshop.
Business area: [e.g. treasury operations, customer onboarding, claims]
Participants: [ROLES and how familiar they are with risk language]
Existing risks and controls on record: [PASTE or "starting from scratch"]
Recent events: [incidents, losses, audit findings, process or system changes]
Our rating scales: [impact and likelihood definitions, or "suggest one"]
Time available: [e.g. 2 hours]
Give me:
1. Pre-work for participants - a short email and 3 questions to think about beforehand.
2. Agenda with timings.
3. Facilitation prompts in everyday language for: identifying what could go wrong, how they would know, what stops it today, and what has nearly happened.
4. Rating guide - inherent risk, control effectiveness, residual risk - with concrete examples for this business area so ratings are consistent.
5. Challenge questions to test optimistic ratings, e.g. "When did this control last catch something?", "What happens when that person is on leave?", "How do you know the report is complete?"
6. Capture template - columns: Risk, Cause, Impact, Inherent rating, Controls, Control effectiveness, Residual rating, Action, Owner, Due date.
7. Follow-up email summarizing outcomes and actions.
Keep the tone collaborative: the goal is honest assessment, not a test participants pass or fail.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- e.g. treasury operations, customer onboarding, claims
- ROLES and how familiar they are with risk language
- PASTE or "starting from scratch"
- incidents, losses, audit findings, process or system changes
- impact and likelihood definitions, or "suggest one"
- e.g. 2 hours
How this prompt is built
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