A lot of people are advocating auditing culture. Problem is, it’s very swishy and difficult to objectively audit. A much more practical approach is to utilize some newer research around Personality System Interaction (PSI) patterns and utilize the Organizational Personality Framework which provides new, innovative levers for change, based on analyzing the organization’s preferred personality …
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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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The Chief Audit Executive (CAE) Briefing is now a FREE course for all CAEs. If you are the CAE in your organization, or you report to a CAE in a large organization, you may register for this course at: https://jasonmefford.mykajabi.com/offers/ezsxLzjQ If you are NOT a CAE, this course is not for you. In this weeks’s …
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In this weeks’s video I talk about about modifying your annual audit plan based on the most impactful event we have experienced in over 100 years. I hear many CAEs just talking about doing their established audit plan virtually (the whole social distancing discussion) but they miss the mark in realizing that taking a risk-based …
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In this weeks’s video I talk about business continuity planning (BCP) which is always a relevant topic anytime our organizations experience crisis events like the one we are going through now with COVID-19. It amazes me each time we go through an event, how unprepared most organizations are. This give us the opportunity to help …
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COVID-19 has caused quite the chaos around the world, and I’m sure you are feeling it’s impacts now in your business and personal life. In times of chaos, most people want to hide in a cave and wait for the chaos and danger to pass, but that is one of the worst things you can …
In this week’s video I talk about something I’ve been avoiding … coronavirus. I’ve been avoiding the virus 🙂 but also talking about it due to the mass hysteria out there on the topic, but the reality is it will now affect all of your organizations in one way or another. I take a little …
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My team is wrapping up our work on the 2020 CAE Survey so you will see those results LATER THIS WEEK, followed by a more detailed guide on how to move from being a cost center to an investment center in your organization. In this week’s video I give you a sneak peek into some …
The Chief Audit Executive (CAE) Briefing is now a FREE course for all CAEs. If you are the CAE in your organization, or you report to a CAE in a large organization, you may register for this course at: https://jasonmefford.mykajabi.com/offers/ezsxLzjQ If you are NOT a CAE, this course is not for you. This week I …
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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