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Risk Management Planner Pro Team

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Build a board-ready enterprise risk register for a housing provider or community organization. Score each risk for probability and impact, before and after controls, on a five-by-five scale; set your board's risk appetite by category; plan treatment actions; and track key risk indicators against tolerance. The planner turns it all into heat maps, an appetite check, and a printable report to the board. Work on this device alone, or sign in to share one register with your team: one person edits at a time, and everyone else sees each change as it saves.

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Risk report to the board

1. Organization and scoring

Every risk is scored for probability and impact from 1 to 5. The score is probability × impact, from 1 to 25, and the bands below turn the score into a rating.

Rating bands

Probability and impact scales

Use these descriptions so everyone scores risks the same way. Probability is over the next 12 months unless your board sets another horizon. Financial impact is set from your annual operating budget; for the other columns, use the highest level that applies.

2. Risk appetite by category

Risk appetite is how much risk the board is willing to accept in pursuit of its goals. Each level sets a tolerance: the highest after-controls score the board will accept without further action. Averse 4, minimal 6, cautious 9, open 12, seeking 16. You can change any tolerance, and rename, add, or remove categories.

Category
Appetite
Tolerance
Risks

3. Risk register

Select a risk to open it. Each risk gets two ratings, each scored for probability and impact. Before controls is the risk if none of your current controls were in place. After controls is the risk today, with controls working as they actually do. Scores read before → after.

4. Treatment action plans

Actions that will bring a risk's after-controls score down, especially for risks outside appetite. An action is overdue when it is not complete or deferred and its due date is before the report date.

5. Key risk indicators

Early-warning measures linked to a risk. Set an amber (watch) threshold and a red (limit) threshold. Choose whether a higher or lower value is the worse direction.

Indicator
Risk
Direction
Previous
Current
Amber
Red
Status

6. Risk profile

What the risk profile is saying

    7. Heat maps

    Each risk is placed by its probability and impact. Select a square to list the risks in it.

    8. Top risks

    Ranked by after-controls score, then before-controls score. Outside appetite means the after-controls score is above the category's tolerance.

    9. Appetite and control effectiveness by category

    Reduced by controls compares total after-controls scores with total before-controls scores. A low figure means current controls are doing little for that category.

    10. Treatment plan status

    11. Key risk indicator dashboard

    12. Framework health checks

    On track meets good practice, Watch needs attention before the next report, and Action should be fixed now.

    Save, share, and export

    Signed in to a team workspace, your work saves to your team’s shared register while you edit. Not signed in, it saves in this browser on this device only. Use Save planner file to keep a backup copy you can open anywhere, or save a named version in the team workspace panel at the top.

    Need a risk framework your board will actually use?

    Dewling Strategies helps boards and leadership teams set risk appetite, build registers that drive decisions, and report risk in a way directors can act on. Email greg@dewlingstrategies.ca or call 780-907-4542.

    This tool supports risk identification, assessment, and reporting for discussion only. It is not legal, insurance, audit, accounting, or investment advice, and it does not replace professional advice on any specific risk. Scores are judgements: the planner applies a simple likelihood × impact method and the appetite tolerances you set. Align the scales and appetite with your board's approved risk management policy.

    The Kestrel Valley Housing Society example is a fictitious teaching case; its risks and figures do not represent any real organization. Without signing in, your risk information is stored only in your own browser. In a team workspace, the register is stored in Dewling Strategies’ database hosted in Canada and is visible only to the members of your agency’s workspace. Registration details you enter on first use are sent to Dewling Strategies through Mailchimp.

    The Risk Management Planner Pro is the property of Dewling Strategies Inc. and is provided free of charge until November 30, 2026, with its permission. Materials that use or are based on the planner or its results must credit Dewling Strategies Inc.

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