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Coaching Skills for Audit and Risk Professionals

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Target Audience: Internal audit and risk professionals
Maximum Number: 8
Time commitment /cost: 1 day / £425 (discounts for multiple bookings)
Course documentation: Binder with narrative text, slides, examples and exercises

Isn't a large chunk of auditing about helping others see where they are and enabling them to take action to manage their risks better? There's nothing 'soft' about coaching skills when professionally applied. This hands-on course will help you discover how to get management buying into better risk management, implementing action plans and promoting internal controls. It's time your organisation moved into the premier league.

Objectives
By the end of the day delegates should be able to:
  • Understand how they and their clients learn
  • Use listening and questioning techniques to raise awareness and focus problem solving ability
  • Help clients set achievable goals that translate into action
  • Give objective feedback that motivates and enhances performance
  • Use simple processes to get results and help create positive habits
Outline of the Day

Introduction and objectives
  • Introducing the course leaders and the participants.
  • Setting objectives and expectations
  • Added value from coaching in risk management
  • Non-judgemental auditing
  • Setting parameters for coaching in risk management and internal audit
Working with the client to achieve action
  • Giving and receiving feedback
  • Practical exercise
  • Intervention Styles (informative, prescriptive, confronting, supportive, catalytic, cathartic)
  • Practical exercise
  • Handling difficult issues
  • Practical exercise
Learning not policing
  • Distinguishing coaching from training and managing
  • Audit and risk reviews as learning
  • Learning styles and how to use them
  • Practical exercise
Generating new habits that stick
  • Simple model for maintaining commitment and monitoring progress
  • Practical exercise
  • Keeping ownership with the client
  • Following up and disengaging
  • Applying transformational learning within your team
Basic skills of the risk professional as coach
  • Gaining entry
  • Making a contract
  • Listening
  • Practical exercise
  • The power of precise questions
  • Practical exercise
Reflection Point and Conclusion
  • What are the key messages from today?
  • Creating an action oriented plan to use your skills and grow your confidence over the next six months.

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