Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.

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Airmic, 27th September 2020
Friday Reading Edition 28 (2nd October 2020)
Host Richard Cutcher speaks to the authors of the three papers about their dissertations on boardroom diversity, climate change resilience and parametric products.
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Airmic, 22nd September 2020
Friday Reading Edition 27 (25th September 2020)
This guide summarises current approaches (2020) to risk management to promote a shared understanding, and will be particularly useful for those new to risk management.
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Airmic,Control Risks, 22nd September 2020
Friday Reading Edition 27 (25th September 2020)
This guide explores the challenges organisations have faced during the COVID-19 crisis, highlights lessons learned and still being learned, and makes suggestions for changes to crisis management practice to build resilience.
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Airmic,RIMS,The RepTrak Company, 22nd September 2020
Friday Reading Edition 27 (25th September 2020)
Previous studies suggest that the risk community continues to struggle with reputational risk and with reputation as an intangible asset. This paper puts forward frameworks for risk professionals to work strategically with others within their organizations to measure and tackle reputational risks.
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Hays, 13th July 2020
Friday Reading Edition 26 (18th September 2020)
Diversity and inclusion specialist Charlotte Sweeney OBE shares her advice to help leaders do just that, throughout each stage of the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. [podcast & article]
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CIPD
Friday Reading Edition 26 (18th September 2020)
As an employer, you would still be under legal obligations to ensure the decisions you make in response to coronavirus (COVID-19) do not directly or indirectly discriminate against employees with protected characteristics.
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Airmic, 2nd September 2020
Friday Reading Edition 25 (11th September 2020)
Oliver Davies, Distribution and Strategic Initiatives Manager at HDI Global in the UK and Ireland, discusses the hard market, the role of brokers, what more insurers such as HDI can be doing to better communicate price rises and how Airmic members can get ahead in their renewals.
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McKinsey & Co, 13th August 2020
Friday Reading Edition 25 (11th September 2020)
Mike Henry, CEO at BHP, explains the importance of social value in decision making and why relationships lie at the heart of business resilience.
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Harvard Business Review, 25th August 2020
Friday Reading Edition 24 (4th September 2020)
Psychological safety – the belief that you won’t be punished when you make a mistake - has been shown to be a key component of high performing teams. Building psychological safety in virtual teams takes effort and strategy that pays off in engagement, collegiality, productive dissent, and idea generation.
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Oliver Wyman, 1st January 2018
Friday Reading Edition 23 (28th August 2020)
Who really owns the risk management framework in a bank? Is it the Chief Risk Officer? Is it so fundamental that it is a shared responsibility among the whole executive or senior leadership team? This guidance puts flesh on the bones of the ‘three lines of defence’ skeleton. 
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