Audit Communication Techniques based on latest brain research
– Next-Level Audit Communication Techniques: Using HiANCA Neuroscience to Drive Impact –
Leverage the power of neuroscience to enhance your audit communication. Transform the way you communicate with business counterparts and team members by leveraging the latest insights from brain research. Learn how to structure your language, adapt your behaviour, and engage stakeholders effectively, ensuring your audit findings are accepted and drive meaningful organizational change.
Description:
Internal auditors are often at the frontline of critical discussions, navigating challenging conversations with business counterparts and team members.
This training equips internal auditors with neuroscience-based communication techniques to enhance their interactions, improve collaboration, and strengthen audit outcomes. By understanding how the brain processes information and emotions, participants will learn to adjust their communication style for greater impact, gain buy-in on audit findings, and resolve conflicts with ease.
This course focuses on practical tools that auditors can apply immediately from conducting interviews and gathering information to presenting audit results. The techniques covered will help auditors foster stronger relationships with business units, handle pushback effectively, and ensure their audit insights are implemented.
This training ensures that auditors develop communication skills that are aligned with the latest cognitive research, making them more persuasive, adaptable, and effective in their roles.
Objectives:
- Understand the principles of brain-based communication and their impact on audit interactions.
- Master the art of presenting audit findings in a way that resonates with business counterparts, senior management.
- Learn to influence decision-making by aligning your communication with how the brain processes information.
- Gain conflict resolution techniques to handle pushback and disagreements with business units.
- Develop active listening skills to gather deeper insights during interviews and audit discussions.
- Tailor your communication style to the specific needs and emotional triggers of different stakeholders.
- Learn to build trust with auditees by understanding the cognitive and emotional factors influencing their behavior.
- Improve collaboration within audit teams through enhanced interpersonal communication techniques.
- Develop skills to ensure audit recommendations are accepted and implemented by business units.
Topics:
- Introduction to Brain-Based Communication for Auditors
- Understanding how the brain processes communication
- The link between emotions, behaviour, and decision-making
- Aligning communication with cognitive processes for better audit outcomes
- Presenting Audit Findings with Impact
- Techniques for structuring and delivering audit results effectively
- Tailoring communication to resonate with business counterparts
- Engaging stakeholders through neuroscience-backed strategies
- Communicating with Senior Stakeholders and Audit Committees
- Techniques for presenting audit findings to strategic stakeholders
- Engaging senior management with neuroscience-backed methods
- Structuring audit reports and presentations for maximum impact
- Emotional Intelligence in Audit Communication
- Understanding the role of emotions in decision-making
- Building trust and rapport during audit discussions
- Applying emotional intelligence to defuse conflicts and manage difficult conversations
- Managing Pushback and Resolving Conflicts in Audits
- Techniques for handling resistance to audit findings
- Neuroscience-based conflict resolution strategies
- Ensuring collaboration even during challenging discussions
- Customizing Communication for Different Audiences
- Tailoring your communication to different stakeholder types
- Adapting your message to resonate with operational teams, middle management, and executives
- Case studies: How customized communication leads to better audit outcomes
- Building Trust with Business Units
- Applying emotional intelligence to foster trust
- Using brain research to understand and address emotional triggers
- Creating long-term positive relationships with business counterparts
- Improving Team Collaboration Through Communication
- Enhancing communication within audit teams for better collaboration
- Techniques for managing interpersonal dynamics within teams
- Aligning team communication strategies with audit objectives
- Practical Applications and Case Studies for Internal Auditors
- Real-world scenarios where brain-based communication improved audit outcomes
- Hands-on exercises to refine communication strategies with auditees
- Feedback sessions to enhance communication skills in audit environments
Training Team
Audit-Championship is a university spin-off. We focus on networking between science and practice. Audit-Championship provides thought leadership and innovative methods to support its customers across all industries in digital transformation. We support audit departments globally as well as national Internal Audit associations with yearly 2.900+ training days and transformation services along an internal audit knowledge value chain.
Inhouse Training on demand
Conditions and Price
Get in touch with us, we look forward to developing a great training event and didactical concept for you and your internal audit team.
Didactics | Methodology
We train you and your team on-site, or we can train you online worldwide in the form of a Virtual Training Series: Interactive lecture, discussion, practical example, case studies, reflection.
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