Whatever type of training course or workshop you’re planning, these training course materials will set the tone.
Your audience will learn about the importance of critical thinking, attention to detail, business awareness, technical report writing, communication skills, and how to navigate the modern world of auditing.
Use this auditor skills course material to explore several types of audits, and how to set up an audit schedule. The course material also details how to form an audit team and how to perform a basic audit. And how to manage documentation.
Examine the seven stages of an effective audit to transform frontline managers and line staff into competent auditors.
Stages include:
- Initial preparation.
- Detailed planning.
- Opening meeting.
- Auditing.
- Reporting.
- Closing meeting.
- Follow-up.
From planning to evaluation this training course material offer the skills needed to lead a basic audit and:
- Covers the entire audit process from planning to reporting.
- Teaches auditors how to define scope, gather evidence, write reports, and more.
- Transforms your auditors into competent, skilled reviewers.
Objectives.
Your participants will:
- Explore different types of audits.
- Understand how to set up an audit schedule.
- Examine how to form an audit team.
- Understand how to perform a basic audit.
- Understand how to manage relevant documentation.
- Examine an audit process.
Auditor Skills – Sample Materials.
We use generic backgrounds so that you can rebrand the training course materials as your own.
Topics Covered.
Here’s what is covered:
1. An introduction to auditor skills
- Key aspects of audits.
- The main types of reviews.
- Traditional views of an audit (e.g., criteria-based audit and audit objectives).
2. Quality audit systems
- Pre-audit activity.
- Audit history.
- The scope of an audit.
- The benefits of reviews.
- Essential aspects of audits (e.g., the scope of the audit and process flow).
3. How to set up an audit team
- Audit team needs.
- Roles and responsibilities within an audit.
- Identifying the various challenges of working in teams.
- How to guide, plan, and schedule an audit.
- Documentation and checklists.
4. Performing an audit
- Role and responsibilities of the lead auditor.
- Key meeting activities.
- Who should attend opening meetings.
- Managing activity and gathering evidence.
- Questioning skills, observation, and note-taking skills.
- When an audit needs to be aborted.
- The critical role of audit team meetings.
5. Learning about the auditor
- Recording non-compliance.
- Scaling.
- Non-conformance reports.
6. Final steps
- The key reasons for closing meetings.
- How to hold a closing meeting.
- The need for follow-up.
What’s In The Download.
Instant access to everything you need.
- Workbook.
- Slides.
- Instructor Manual.
- 17 Free Training Games.
- 17 Free Training Icebreakers.
- 15 Practical Training Guides.
- 2 Course Tests.
- Activities/Exercises.
- A Reading List.
- A Course Advertorial.
- An Action Plan.
