Today’s chief audit executives, their deputies, and internal audit managers need to work closely with business leaders, boards, audit committees, peers, and their own audit teams. Now more than ever, leadership, stakeholder relations, and influencing skills are becoming as important as managing a team, and planning and delivering insightful internal audit assurance and consulting engagements.
This conference focuses on the various challenges and opportunities internal audit leaders face and shows how to audit leaders can make a contribution at a strategic level, clearly adding value and also enhancing productivity in the audit process.
This clear, practical, and interactive conference will help participants improve their awareness and skills and help them become better internal audit leader who delivers impactful and insightful internal audit work that can make a strategic difference to their organization.
At the end of this conference, the participants will be able to:
Demonstrate greater confidence in dealing with senior leaders
Appraise what it really takes to be an effective internal audit leader
Explain how to make an effective and valuable contribution at a strategic level and toward overall business success
Apply practical methods to manage key relationships with the audit committee, senior management, and peers
Add value through efficient and effective internal audit good practices
Explain key priorities for them and their departments to help maximize their contribution to their organization
Chief audit executives
Deputy heads of audit
Internal audit managers and senior internal auditors who deal with business leaders and/or lead or manage members of the internal audit team.
Effective leadership
The importance of steady management
Qualities of an effective internal audit leader
A reminder of leadership and management theory
The inspirational internal audit leader
Large versus small internal audit teams
The mission statement and definition of internal auditing
Relevant attribute and performance standards
Challenges all internal audit leaders face
Resolving common challenges
Determining risk maturity
Designing the risk-based assurance universe
Developing an effective internal audit strategy
How do you develop your universe and strategy
Coordination with other assurance providers
Advantages and disadvantages of working with other assurance providers
Determining the annual or six-monthly internal audit plan
Delivering the plan
Discussion: Good practice planning
Internal audit delivery today and building team capability for tomorrow
Securing the necessary internal audit resources
Managing internal audit resources
Dealing with the dispersed team
Ensuring an effective internal audit engagement process
Maximizing efficiency
Managing co-sourcing and contractors
In-house versus outsourced contractors
Risk management in the internal audit function
Risk identification and management for internal audit
Because supervisory levels are the link between the executive and senior management levels, achieving the organization's objectives, increasing productivity and overall performance of the organization, affects the effectiveness and efficiency of supervisors' performance.
And because of the skills of supervisors in any organization in need of continuous development, and to acquire advanced tools and methods that reflect on the deepening of these skills and activate their role in motivating individuals working, and push them to commit to the goals of the organization.
You need this conference to learn about supervisory skills and advanced methods, to be able to play an effective and supervisory role in your organization.
Managing an office has become an increasingly sophisticated and complex job. The increased demand for speed and accuracy, knowledge of new technology, and an increasingly diverse workforce bring challenges and also opportunities for growth. This dynamic and in-depth course explores some of the more advanced skills which can help an office manager to work more confidently, creatively, and effectively.
As a supervisor, the success of your organization rests in your hands. This course provides you with the opportunity to develop highly effective and essential supervisory skills that will strengthen teamwork and organizational success. Also, this course will help you manage everyday operations with greater ease. Furthermore, it will help you leverage both your managerial and people skills to meet your new challenges as the 21st-century supervisor.
This course is designed for participants to introduce to key issues and themes in international development.
Participants will explore and engage in academic debates and discussions around a set of key factors that shape, influence, and constrain the development and prosperity of nations.
The course will explore a number of key themes in international development, including how questions of gender and generation shape the impact of poverty; how processes of globalization, migration, and violent conflict impact development; and how development and the environment are linked.
It also considers what exactly we mean by poverty, and how different ways of understanding poverty feed into different approaches to tackling it.
It will also consider development institutions: what are the key institutions in the architecture of international development? How do they differ, and what are the challenges and opportunities they present? Through this module, participants will gain a solid background in the various factors which shape current approaches to and debates on international development.
By introducing participants to a range of problems in economic development, we will look to analyze how economic theory and models can explain the lack of development in some nations. We will apply such theory to real-world economies to understand the nature of the problems they face and how effective policies can be in tackling the problems.
A five-day course on the practical aspects of piping and pipeline design, integrity, maintenance, and repair. The participants will obtain an in-depth understanding of the ASME B31 code rules and API standards, their technical basis, and practical application to field conditions.
Corporate/Public governance and risk management are critical There is increasing attention being paid to corporate governance and risk management in business schools and among legislators.