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In this week’s video I discuss a recent e-mail I received from one of the large tech companies.
I continue to be concerned that millions of dollars in marketing are targeted at the profession, providing hope that if you buy into a new shiny object, buzz word or tool … you will magically become a strategic business partner to the C-suite.
That just isn’t true.
Becoming a strategic partner or trusted advisor is about BEING an executive with the right technical and soft skills and focusing your efforts in the right areas. Check out the video for more information.
I’ve been working hard putting the finishing touches on the new Certified Risk-Based Internal Auditor course that will officially launch on 01 December 2019. The more I dig into why CAEs often find themselves ignored or frustrated it really boils down to two reasons. One of them is not taking a truly risk-based internal audit approach.
If you want the respect and trust of management, you need to improve your risk-based internal auditing.
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Transcript
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welcome to another edition of the chief
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audit executive briefing hey this week I
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received an email from one of the large
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tech companies and some of the wording
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that they used in there is continuing to
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concern me and here’s the deal right
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they’re using language they’re using
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some of these buzzwords and in trying to
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say that if you get their tool you will
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become a strategic business partner of
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the c-suite now why am i concerned about
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that
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because the tool will not help you
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become a trusted business partner of the
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c-suite it just doesn’t work that way
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okay there are other things that you
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need to do it doesn’t matter the tool
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you have what matters is how you are
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your being whether or not you are
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actually being the kind of executive
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that they would see as a strategic
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business partner or as a trusted adviser
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now as I’ve done a bunch of research
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talk to a lot of people seen a lot of
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what chief out of executives are going
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through having coached many chief out of
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the executives there’s really kind of
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two reasons why or how you end up
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getting to be that strategic business
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partner or the term that I usually use
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is trusted advisor and the first one is
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that you actually understand the
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business you understand the risks
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associated with the business and you and
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and from that you’re actually taking a
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risk-based internal audit approach now I
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know a lot of people believe that
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they’re doing risk based auditing but
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when I start asking some questions right
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if you’re like most people if I would
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start asking some questions about your
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audit plan we find out pretty quick that
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you’re not actually doing risk based
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internal auditing your risk ranking
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projects you’re doing those that you
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feel are most important first but the
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problem is most of those projects don’t
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actually tie back to the key objectives
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of the organization they don’t focus on
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the things that the executives are
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concerned about so I’m here to tell you
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it doesn’t matter what tool you use if
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you’re not focusing your efforts on the
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right areas management will never see
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you as that trusted advisor the second
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thing is it’s both a combination of your
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technical and your soft skills that will
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help you get to that level now in our
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profession most of the time we focus all
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of our time and energy on technical
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skills and it makes us fabulous auditors
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sometimes maybe a little too theoretical
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okay and so the problem is if you don’t
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have the right balance and in where I’ve
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seen most people lacking is in some of
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those soft skills they don’t really have
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that executive presence that they need
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they don’t really understand how to
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communicate the way that they need to
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they’re not bringing in things like
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psychology in order to help them in
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communicating and having that influence
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in their organization so again it really
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has nothing to do with the tools you use
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it’s about who you are if you are being
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an executive with that executive
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presence and if you’re actually focusing
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your efforts on the areas that the
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executives are really concerned about
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now one other announcement for you this
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week as well is I’ve been working really
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hard to finish up the certified risk
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based internal auditor course that will
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officially launch on December 1st so
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it’ll be ready to go by the end of this
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month
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now the reason I’m reminding you of this
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is C Risk Academy has actually been
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running a special for those individuals
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that pre-register for the course which
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means if you want to get in at the
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lowest price
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that this course will ever be at which
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is 999 dollars you need to register this
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week so if you’re the kind of person
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that would actually like to learn more
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get deeper into this or if you have
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would like to have members of your team
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actually get into this then they need to
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make sure and register this week so I’ve
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included a link down below because
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registration needs to come in by the
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30th of November in order to take
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advantage of this insane savings now
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this actually represents 60 percent off
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the normal price and so like I said this
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is the last time I’m going to remind you
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on this too
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because the next chief audit executive
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briefing is going to be in December so
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this is the last time that I’ll be
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telling you about this great savings as
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well so with that
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like I said we’re almost to December
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hope your year has gone well take some
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time this week or next
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and actually reflect on what you’ve been
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able to accomplish this year and what I
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want you to do is give yourself a big
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attaboy
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you know good on you might if you’re
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from Australia on those things that
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you’ve been able to accomplish this last
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year you know a lot of times we’re
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always looking to the future and we
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forget how much we’ve actually
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accomplished the last year so take some
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time you know especially for those of
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you that are in the United States this
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week is the week of Thanksgiving holiday
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so take some time and just be grateful
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and give yourself celebrate I guess if I
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if you will the things that you’ve been
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able to accomplish this last year and
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then next week or the following week you
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can start really getting into planning
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for next year but take some time just to
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feel grateful and go wow I really did
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accomplish a lot this last year that was
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great and just sit in that gratitude for
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a little while so with that my friends
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have a great rest of your week and I’ll
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talk to you next week
