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Risk Management for Charities - A Practical Guide, by Joe Houghton

Joe offers training courses on different aspects of risk management and can tailor sessions to your specific needs or create longer courses.

He is the author of Risk Management for Charities - A Practical Guide for Irish & UK Trustees & Staff, and of Project Management made easy - the ECCSR approach.

He has delivered risk training to corporate, SME and charity clients for over 20 years, and his risk tools have been used by major corporations such as Microsoft, Dell, and the Irish Defence Forces.

In the academic setting, Joe co-created and has, for the past 20 years, directed the Masters in Project Management programmes at University College Dublin's Smurfit Graduate Business School.

Joe is also a Senior Trainer with TriGraph Intelligent Learning, where he delivers training courses on AI, project management, business analysis, and business communications.

He facilitates risk training sessions for The Wheel every year.

Contact Joe today to discuss your needs and let's get some dates in the diary.

Client list

  • Maynooth University
  • The Wheel
  • TUSLA
  • Accounting Technicians Ireland
  • Disability Federation Ireland
  • Shine

Testimonials

  • Testimonial from The Wheel, risk training participant. Quote: The session on Risk Management was really helpful to me. It facilitated me to clarify our risk areas, how to identify our risk 'events', to categorise levels of risk and as well as looking at actions to mitigate likelihood of events occuring it supported me to prepare a plan of action to deal with things if they did happen.
    The Wheel, risk training participant
  • Testimonial from Andy Denton, Regional Manager, Quality, Risk and Service Improvement, TUSLA Child and Family Agency - South. Quote: Mr Joe Houghton was approached as someone qualified to deliver this training. Following an initial meeting, Joe looked at the National Policy, Regional Risk Register and examples of Risk Assessments and Action Plans and developed a 3.5 hour master class on Risk Management. The class was hosted by Workforce Learning and Development and was fully subscribed within 48 hours of being broadcast. The class was well presented with good engagement with participants and a mixture of teaching, discussion, practical exercises and power point presentation. The learning objectives were clearly explained and the majority of participants who provided feedback, felt they were achieved. From a Regional Management perspective, the class achieved its objectives in taking the risk management agenda to a deeper level and building on the briefings already provided. Awareness of organisational risk management has increased and we would certainly hope to repeat the class periodically to support our risk management programme.
    Andy DentonRegional Manager, Quality, Risk and Service Improvement, TUSLA Child and Family Agency - South10 April 2018

Useful resources

From MIT, a database of more than 700 risks from AI, categorised by domain and cause -the AI Risk Repository (opens in a new tab).

Rates

Basic

My basic day rate is €1,200 per day, or €600 for a half-day. Reduced rates can be discussed for charities and non-profits.

Courses that are already prepared can be delivered with just the delivery time built into the price, so there is no preparation time to add.

Tailored

All my courses can be tailored to suit the specific needs of your audience.

If this approach is adopted, we will normally have an initial free half-hour discussion to outline the needs from the training or consultancy engagement, and to map out a discovery process to include learning about your needs, preparing the materials and then delivering the training or consultancy.

I will prepare a formal proposal document, and we will agree a cost for preparation and delivery broken down into day or half-day amounts. Payment is after delivery, within 30 days.

My company

My company is Zuben Ltd, and I am registered for VAT (IE9842954N) and hold full public liability cover and tax clearance.

I invoice through Fenero who provide accounting services to contractors and businesses.