# Effective Audit Supervision (Self-Paced)

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## Overview

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.

## What you'll learn

- Recognize the natural tension between the audit leader 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.

## Curriculum

#### Module 1: Technical and Human Relations Roles in Supervising

- Understanding supervisor roles as technical and human relations leader
- Balancing dual supervisory responsibilities effectively
- Supervisor's roles and responsibilities under Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS)

#### Module 2: Audit Planning, Staffing, Time Management, and Delegation

- Planning audits, defining objectives, scope, and methodology
- Assigning work and matching staff capabilities to audit tasks
- Effective delegation and time management strategies

#### Module 3: Managing the Performance Cycle and Staff Development

- Setting clear performance expectations
- Providing effective coaching, feedback, and on-the-job training (OJT)
- Identifying and solving performance problems and applying motivational techniques

#### Module 4: Personal Style and Myers-Briggs

- Understanding your managerial and interpersonal style using Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
- Improving supervisory effectiveness through awareness of personal style
- Enhancing team dynamics by recognizing different personality types

#### Module 5: Groups and Meetings

- Effective techniques for leading groups and teams
- Planning and running productive meetings
- Managing team interactions and ensuring productive group problem-solving

#### Module 6: Managing Conflict and Emotional Intelligence

- Recognizing and managing conflict constructively
- Understanding and applying principles of emotional intelligence
- Improving supervisory relationships through emotional intelligence

#### Module 7: Motivation

- Exploring various motivational theories and their applications
- Identifying individual and generational motivational differences
- Applying effective motivational techniques tailored to individual team members

#### Module 8: Leadership

- Exploring different approaches to leadership
- Understanding and applying situational leadership concepts
- Identifying your leadership style and adapting it effectively to various scenarios

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $1199