CAE Roundtables Are Hurting You and Are a Big Waste of Time. Now you may be thinking, no they aren’t I’ve gotten some value from attending them. I understand. I’ve attended some great roundtables when I was a Chief Audit Executive, but most of them are a complete waste of time. Have all of the …
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E121: Your Title Doesn’t Make You a Leader
Have you ever worked for a horrible boss? If you are like most people, a couple of faces just popped into your mind. We’ve all worked with horrible bosses who didn’t use Intuitive Leadership, Neural Influence, or Mental Mastery … and it’s HARD to be a leader without them, and painful for the people you …
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How to Deal with Difficult People (CAEB 47)
If you are like most internal audit leaders, you have a lot of difficult people you need to deal with on a daily and weekly basis. It can not only be exhausting, but if we don’t handle things correctly it can negatively affect our career. Instead of a video this week, I suggest you take …
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Putting on your Investment Manager Hat (CAEB 39)
In this week’s video I’m talking more about putting on your “investment manager hat” so we start acting and being perceived as an investment center instead of a cost center. Many of us leaders work in professional areas that have traditionally been seen by the CFO and other executives as a “cost center.” Since CFOs …
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E2: Are You Really a Trusted Advisor?
Many support functions in organizations want to be seen as a “trusted advisor” to the business, and internal audit is no exception. There is an aspiration to provide value, so we work really hard proving to ourselves that we are adding value, but other don’t see it and tend to runaway. “And I wonder, I …
Jamming with Jason Podcast
The Jamming with Jason Podcast is hosted by Jason Mefford. He’s been in the trenches as an executive leader, and now is a cutting-edge executive leadership coach and confidential advisor to top executives all over the world, using a multi-disciplinary approach to improve learning, that drives transformation by getting to the root cause in a practical, …
