Audit Advantage
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Audit Advantage: Self Esteem
10/09/2018
Self confidence, self belief, self regard, self assurance, self worth and self efficacy. We’ve discussed all of these previously on these pages. But how are they different from self esteem and why does self esteem merit its own article? -
Audits are projects. From the most junior trainee up to director or partner level, we all manage projects or aspects of projects in some shape or form.
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Meetings…the bread and butter of our business; the glue that holds together our organisations; grist to the mill for each and every one of us!
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Audit Advantage: Impact
14/08/2018
You need to make an ‘impact’ with your CV, at a job interview or when you are doing a presentation, this, we all know. But have you thought about all the other instances where impact matters? -
Self management is one of the four fundamental quadrants of Emotional Intelligence, which is as, if not more, important to personal success than IQ.
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Communication skills are important in every career, but for auditing they are a fundamental competence, critical for accurately and effectively collecting, interpreting and disseminating information.
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Audit Advantage: Work overload
16/07/2018
Over the many years I have been coaching and mentoring, the standalone, hot, personal development topic of all time, has been, and still remains, the profound angst of the impossible workload. -
Audit Advantage: Self-Confidence
11/05/2018
If you’ve ever struggled to find your voice in a meeting, held back when you know you are truly capable, or felt under pressure to conform to something you know isn’t really you, then you know why self confidence matters. -
With the explosion of diverse messaging tools and channels that we have at our disposal right now, understanding the best etiquette for e-communication is vital.
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This article will suggest some diagnostics, tips and techniques to manage your anxiety, but also pose the vexing question: when, if ever, can anxiety be an auditor’s ally?
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Audit Advantage: The Problem with Delegation
22/08/2017
Delegation - It’s an essential tool in our armoury of rendering our work physically doable, protecting the fragility of work life balance, safeguarding us from overwhelm and ensuring the investment in skills and experience for the future. -
Audit Advantage: Impostor Syndrome
03/07/2017
How do you describe your progress, your success, your achievements? Ever ascribe them to ‘just good luck’, ‘being in the right place at the right time’, ‘sheer hard grind and hanging on in there’? -
Audit Advantage: Resilience, Rebooted
19/01/2017
Resilience - What does it mean to an auditor? Join us as we run through our 10 step programme to being a resilient auditor. -
‘Good things come to those who wait, better things come to those who go out and get them’, Anon.
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Audit Advantage: Teamwork
31/08/2016
The best teams are synergistic; that is their whole is greater than the sum of their parts. -
It goes without saying that building strong relationships is critical to your professional success. But you also need to consider your wider stakeholders, inside and outside your current role.
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Nobody likes receiving criticism; most of us baulk at giving it, and some of us find it hard to convey, or accept, even the positive variety.
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There is no preamble; you need pragmatic, pertinent advice on how to prioritise at work, rest and play.
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Internal, external, systems or financial, you will, as an auditor, need to influence on a daily basis.
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Audit Advantage: Managing Conflict
30/10/2015
So low level conflict is everywhere; at work, at home, with our loved ones, in our economic, socio, political environs. Avoidance is possible, temporarily, but it's not a sustainable strategy.