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Leadership for the 21st Century Auditor
Leadership skills are critical for audit professionals that want to advance. To assume additional responsibilities and lead others you must develop different skills than those that you have used to be a successful auditor. The identification of organizational challenges and having the skill to work through them will help you success as a leader. This seminar will provide you with additional tools, techniques and information to improve your chances of advancing or to help you be more successful in your current leadership role. Participants will receive real-life examples of lessons learned/leading practices for use in their own audit function acquired through a career of active internal audit participation.
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Relationships, Interpersonal Skills & Auditing: Becoming a “Trusted Advisor”
With the world changing around us and the impact to oThe key to a successful business career depends upon how well you develop and maintain positive relationships. Each of us cannot accomplish our job and career goals without learning from, assisting and working well with others. The ultimate goal of a Chief Audit Executive/ Auditor is to become a “Trusted Advisor”. A Trusted Advisor is someone that others look to for counsel, advice and as a trusted confidant who will listen when times get difficult. During the training you will learn the why and how of developing relationships which should assist you in becoming a “Trusted Advisor”. Also, tips, techniques and reference materials will be provided to assist in your personal and team development.
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Interviewing Skills - Developing Additional Techniques for Audits
Conducting efficient and effective interviews are essential to the success of an internal auditor. This seminar will provide a framework to help develop your interview skills and/or show additional ways to strengthen current skills. Examples of real life interview challenges and potential solutions will be shared to better prepare you for the difficult interview. Use of the tips, techniques and tools provided will enable you to become a more effective interviewer. The above items and many other things will be addressed in this seminar to assist in the development of your interviewing skills (e.g. listening skills, developing business acumen, working with difficult people, relationships and their impact on interviews, etc.). Having strong interviewing skills are an essential element for gathering audit evidence to support audit conclusions.
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Managing Internal Audit Projects for Efficiency & Effectiveness
Audit teams must conduct their work efficiently and effectively to facilitate optimum audit coverage and quality. The role of auditors continues to become more complex and demanding that can result in lessened focus on the primary audit objectives. Attend this seminar to better understand tools, techniques and approaches that will provide a framework to better manage audit projects and add greater value to your organization. Real life examples of good project management practices, key project controls, tools and oversight techniques will be provided to further the learning process. Finally, the course will be interactive and provide opportunities for you to practice what you learn.
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Risk-Based Auditing; Developing, Implementing & Managing
The first necessity in performing risk-based auditing is developing a comprehensive audit plan. This session will include the process for developing and implementing a risk-based assessment/ audit planning process. Attendees will be provided with key information and examples to assist them in developing/improving their current risk assessment/audit planning process. Also, with the role of auditors continuing to become more complex and demanding the efficient/effective use of audit resources continues to be more important.
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