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About the workshop
In an evolving role, internal audit professionals need a diverse skill set to succeed and step into leadership. To achieve success and influence change, you must develop your soft skills and learn to manage complex stakeholder relationships. By building skills beyond your technical discipline, you can engage and enable your teams in alignment with broader business strategy, helping them to capitalise on their own capabilities.
This two-day interactive workshop will give you the skills and strategies to guide and support your team through complex changes while fostering workforce development. You will learn to tailor communication and behaviour, gaining insight into how this affects your team’s capability. Walk away with a range of new techniques to overcome common challenges, enable your internal audit team and unlock your leadership potential!
Agenda
Driving Value in All IA Activities
- Influencing senior management to focus on the means to improve performance
- Providing a tangible link between government decisions, activities and their impact
- Prioritising your activities to drive value through clear linkages and Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
- Developing KPIs that emphasise quantitative and measurable indicators
- Providing clear IA reporting to highlight the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of IA
Working Smarter Not Harder to Achieve the Best Outcomes
- Preparing your own toolkit to unlock new efficiencies and value enhancers
- Navigating your way around the suite of tools and technologies
- Delivering an increased risk coverage
Assessing Readiness and Planning for Change
- Being prepared to answer the tough questions on IA performance and practices
- Knowing how far along the continuum you and your stakeholders want to travel
- Assessing existing skills and experience and working out what you really need for the future
- Maintaining business as usual and increased value on outcomes
Continuing the Journey...Ongoing Provision of Business Acumen to Lead, Communicate and Influence Outcomes
- How to avoid being constrained by a narrow view of the Internal Audit role
- Aligning IA activities to management goals and objectives
- Consulting with management and stakeholders to contribute ideas and advice on a regular basis
- Recognise that IA itself be periodically assessed to unlock full potential as a “business” partner
Tailor Your Training Experience
To make sure you get the learning solution that’s right for you, we offer different levels of tailoring to suit your needs. Choose from three levels of customisation:
1.Off the Shelf
Love what you see? Great! Choose this option to take one of our most popular courses and bring it in-house for your team. Includes a pre-course consult session with our facilitator to make sure we hit the mark, and deliver the right learning experience for you.
2.Customised
Make sure you get the most from the course you choose, by tailoring the content to get the right fit for you. Speak to our team, who will work with you to pick and mix from a curated bank of training modules to help customise your learning experience.
3.Premium
Not on the list? Let us know what you’re looking for and we will find the right solution. Our team of learning specialists will work with you to develop a unique training course for your business. Through an in-depth consultation process, we will work with you to profile your learning needs and build a bespoke program from the ground up.
Speak with one of our team today to find which option is right for you.