Core Issues in Regulatory & Risk-Control Practice
Gain expert insights on the core issues in regulatory & risk-control practice
This 4-day seminar presents a coherent, broad, and content-rich introduction to the challenges of regulatory practice.
The CIRRP seminar covers fundamental questions in regulatory design as well as examining specific contemporary puzzles currently demanding attention from Australasian regulatory bodies. It thus provides a suitable orientation for newcomers to the regulatory business, appropriate for practitioners at any rank—from the front line to the Boardroom, and every level of management in between. It also offers seasoned regulatory professionals an opportunity to examine the broad array of possibilities in terms of regulatory strategy and practice, and to use that richer picture as backdrop for reflecting on their own past experience and considering their future aspirations and plans.
Malcolm K Sparrow is a leading international expert in regulatory and enforcement strategy, security and risk control. Malcolm is the Professor of the Practice of Public Management at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government and he is Faculty Chair of the school’s executive program “Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies.”
Professor Sparrow served 10 years with the British Police Service, rising to the rank of Detective Chief Inspector. He has conducted internal affairs investigations, commanded a tactical firearms unit, and has extensive experience with criminal investigation. His research interests include regulatory and enforcement strategy, fraud control, corruption control, and operational risk management. He is also a patent-holding inventor, and dead serious at tennis.
Professor Malcolm K Sparrow
Malcolm K Sparrow is a leading international expert in regulatory and enforcement strategy, security and risk control. Malcolm is the Professor of the Practice of Public Management at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government and he is Faculty Chair of the school’s executive program “Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies.”
Professor Sparrow served 10 years with the British Police Service, rising to the rank of Detective Chief Inspector.
He has conducted internal affairs investigations, commanded a tactical firearms unit, and has extensive experience with criminal investigation. His research interests include regulatory and enforcement strategy, fraud control, corruption control, and operational risk management. He is also a patent-holding inventor and deadly serious at tennis.
What to expect
An unparalleled learning opportunity: Across the four sessions, attendees will have the chance to take a deep dive into key regulatory concepts with Professor Sparrow in an interactive, engaging teaching format
Suitable for regulatory practitioners at any rank: From the front line to the Boardroom, and every level of management in between
An audience favourite: See why over 1800+ past attendees have given Professor Sparrow a 95% speaker satisfaction rating
Attend and learn
- The relationship between compliance management and risk-control objectives
- What it means to be a “risk-based regulator”
- Four different types of work—functional work, process-based work, problem-based work, and crisis response—and how they all fit together
- Different forms of discretion that are exercised by regulators
- The role that values play in governing regulatory decision-making
- Defining and measuring success – The evolving nature of the regulatory performance account
- Alternative regulatory structures
- How to determine which parts of the risk-management task can safely be delegated to industry or to third parties, and under what circumstances
- Engaging partnerships with diverse stakeholder groups without compromising their regulatory missions
- Special (“Wicked”) classes of Harms which complicate the task of controlling them
- How professional regulators can respond constructively to “de-regulatory” pressures
Who will attend
These workshops are designed principally for federal, state and local government regulatory and enforcement practitioners but are also suitable for anyone whose job entails risk-control or harm-reduction responsibilities (e.g., members of professional boards).
The course is suitable for both newcomers to regulatory practice as an orientation as well as seasoned regulatory professionals.
Agenda
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Welcome remarks, virtual learning tips & course introduction
Session 1: Core Issues in Regulatory Strategy (A)
- Setting the mission
- Distinctive nature of the risk-control task
Break
Session 2: Core Issues in Regulatory Strategy (B)
- The nature of regulatory craftsmanship
- Four different types of work, and the challenge of integrating them
Break
Angela Masson
Chief Building Regulator
Queensland Building & Construction Commission
Angela Masson
Session 3: Current Issues in Regulatory Strategy (1)
- Developing an organisational capacity for problem-centric work
- Implementation challenges
Summary of the day & preparation for tomorrow
Close of Day 1
Reflections/comments/queries arising from Day 1
Session 1: Managing & Measuring Performance (A)
- What constitutes “success” in a risk-control setting
- Potentially perverse metrics, and the harm they can do
Break
Session 2: Managing & Measuring Performance (B)
- The role of analysis in support of risk-control
- Telling the story of “risks identified and controlled”
Break
Session 3: Managing & Measuring Performance (C)
- Designing the regulatory cockpit
- Simulator training!
Summary of the day & preparation for tomorrow
Close of Day 2
Reflections/comments/queries arising from Day 2
Session 1: Values at stake in regulatory practice (A)
- Recognising the demons
- The values we embrace in order to control them
- Why positive values sometimes conflict
- Resolving the conflicts
Break
Session 2: Values at stake in regulatory practice (B)
- Distinctive nature of the regulatory environment
- Obligations to different stakeholdersForms of accountability
- Different types of discretion, and the relationships between them
Break
Session 3: Current Issues in Regulatory Strategy (2)
- Developing constructive responses to de-regulatory pressures
Summary of the day & preparation for tomorrow
Close of Day 3
Reflections/comments/queries arising from Day 3
Session 1: Alternate Regulatory Structures (A)
- Delegating risk-control responsibilities to regulated communities. When is it safe, and under what conditions?
- Historical trends in regulatory policy. Understanding the effects of regulatory “fashion.”
- Lessons from Civil Aviation
Break
Session 2: Alternate Regulatory Structures (B)
- Developing a more discriminatory approach to the management of alternate regulatory structures
- Safety Management Systems: strengths & weaknesses
- Choice of structures for control of catastrophic risks
- When prescriptive regulation and self-regulation co-exist
Break
Session 3: Special (“Wicked”) Classes of Risks—an overview:
- Various ways of categorising risks
- Characteristics of risk that frustrate those responsible for controlling them
- Brief introduction to:
- invisible risks
- risks involving conscious opponents (adversaries)
- catastrophic risks
- performance-enhancing risk-taking
Closing remarks
Close of course
Welcome remarks, virtual learning tips & course introduction
Session 1: Core Issues in Regulatory Strategy (A)
- Setting the mission
- Distinctive nature of the risk-control task
Break
Session 2: Core Issues in Regulatory Strategy (B)
- The nature of regulatory craftsmanship
- Four different types of work, and the challenge of integrating them
Break
Angela Masson
Chief Building Regulator
Queensland Building & Construction Commission
Angela Masson
Session 3: Current Issues in Regulatory Strategy (1)
- Developing an organisational capacity for problem-centric work
- Implementation challenges
Summary of the day & preparation for tomorrow
Close of Day 1
Reflections/comments/queries arising from Day 1
Session 1: Managing & Measuring Performance (A)
- What constitutes “success” in a risk-control setting
- Potentially perverse metrics, and the harm they can do
Break
Session 2: Managing & Measuring Performance (B)
- The role of analysis in support of risk-control
- Telling the story of “risks identified and controlled”
Break
Session 3: Managing & Measuring Performance (C)
- Designing the regulatory cockpit
- Simulator training!
Summary of the day & preparation for tomorrow
Close of Day 2
Reflections/comments/queries arising from Day 2
Session 1: Values at stake in regulatory practice (A)
- Recognising the demons
- The values we embrace in order to control them
- Why positive values sometimes conflict
- Resolving the conflicts
Break
Session 2: Values at stake in regulatory practice (B)
- Distinctive nature of the regulatory environment
- Obligations to different stakeholdersForms of accountability
- Different types of discretion, and the relationships between them
Break
Session 3: Current Issues in Regulatory Strategy (2)
- Developing constructive responses to de-regulatory pressures
Summary of the day & preparation for tomorrow
Close of Day 3
Reflections/comments/queries arising from Day 3
Session 1: Alternate Regulatory Structures (A)
- Delegating risk-control responsibilities to regulated communities. When is it safe, and under what conditions?
- Historical trends in regulatory policy. Understanding the effects of regulatory “fashion.”
- Lessons from Civil Aviation
Break
Session 2: Alternate Regulatory Structures (B)
- Developing a more discriminatory approach to the management of alternate regulatory structures
- Safety Management Systems: strengths & weaknesses
- Choice of structures for control of catastrophic risks
- When prescriptive regulation and self-regulation co-exist
Break
Session 3: Special (“Wicked”) Classes of Risks—an overview:
- Various ways of categorising risks
- Characteristics of risk that frustrate those responsible for controlling them
- Brief introduction to:
- invisible risks
- risks involving conscious opponents (adversaries)
- catastrophic risks
- performance-enhancing risk-taking
Closing remarks
Close of course
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Really well run event with superb content. Very worthwhile.”
Public Servant
Professor Sparrow delivered an exceptionally well-constructed course. The attention to detail, specific examples that were relevant to the participants, and the depth of understanding of the topics made for a very engaging four days.”
Assistant Director
Assistant Director
I highly recommend this seminar to all regulators who want a broader understanding of their role in society and the economy.”
Manager
I would recommend attending this seminar for those in the regulatory field – it provides robust discussions specific to the areas the attendees work within as well as case studies which capture key points of regulatory practice.”
Senior Technical Officer
Please note that this program emphasises management and practice of risk-control operations (i.e., regulatory practice) as opposed to the reform of law itself (regulatory policy). It is also oriented more towards social regulation (provision of safety, health, & security) rather than economic regulation (managing the efficient functioning of specific markets).
You will have opportunities, both during class discussions and outside class-time, to raise other issues they currently face and to draw on their own experiences.
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