# 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.

- Topic: Meetings
- Framework: Few-Shot
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Analyze, Plan, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/facilitate-a-risk-and-control-self-assessment-workshop

## Prompt

```text
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.
```

## 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

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