There’s a sexual harassment complaint and it ends up front page news. It’s our worst nightmare, but it’s absolutely avoidable by doing the right thing. By *managing risk*.

We rarely think of HR situations in risk management terms (i.e. probability and consequence), but that’s the expertise of this week’s guest.

Bob Stenhouse of Veritas Solutions is a former undercover police officer who understands the consequences intimately. He’s taken his investigative and risk management skills into HR. His insight is unique!

While PR may be a part of an organization’s risk mitigation that is not HR’s role. Our role is to mitigate the probability and consequences.

That means speaking truth to power. Which can get someone fired.

One way of taking the ‘heat’ out is to focus on risk rather than moralizing.

You can predict where the HR risks are by following cultural trends.

This was such a fascinating conversation.

Find Bob at Veritas Solutions veritassolutions.net or follow him on LinkedIn. He writes great posts!

Find Andrea for generalist HR consulting in Western Canada at thehrhub.ca.

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