Identify your management style and improve your effectiveness when dealing with others with different styles. Learn how to set performance expectations and how to match staff capabilities with audit tasks. Industry-recognized analytic instruments are used to provide you with a set of practical tools and techniques intended to enhance your supervisory skills.
Note: This course focuses on the supervisor's human relations role in leading audits. Our course, Managing the Audit Engagement (AUDT9102G), focuses on the supervisor's technical role in leading audits.
Who Should Attend?
New audit supervisors and team leaders; also experienced supervisors, team leaders and managers who want to improve their knowledge and skills. Level: Journeyman.
Objectives:
Recognize the natural tension between the audit supervisor's roles as "technical" and "human relations" leader
Identify ways of balancing these dual responsibilities
Describe the leader's role and responsibilities under the Government Auditing Standards
Recognize your own managerial and interpersonal styles
Identify ways to improve your effectiveness when dealing with team members
Apply leadership techniques to tasks such as managing the performance cycle, setting expectations, providing coaching and on-the-job training, monitoring performance, providing feedback, leading groups and meetings, managing conflict, and fulfilling administrative and legal responsibilities
Identify ways to apply the principles of motivation and leadership in leading and developing audit teams
Syllabus:
Module 1 -- Leader's Technical and Human Relations Roles
