Master the Art of Strategic Influence: Political Savvy for Internal Audit Leaders
Lisätiedot
Aika
13.10.2025 10:00 - 13.10.2025 17:30
Paikka
Online
Hinta
Jäsenet:
EUR 395 + alv
Ei-jäsenet:
EUR 495 + alv
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📅 Ilmoittaudu viimeistään: 6.10.2025
💬 Opetuskieli: Englanti
📚 CPE-PISTEET: 7
Kuvaus
Nosta sisäisen tarkastuksen rooli uudelle tasolle.
Koulutus antaa tarkastusjohtajille työkalut:
✅ Vaikuttaaa ilman muodollista valtaa
✅ Tunnistaa ja hyödyntää organisaatiopolitiikkaa eettisesti
✅ Soveltaa psykologista pelisilmää haastavissa vuorovaikutustilanteissa
👤 Työpajaa vetää pitkän linjan tarkastuksen ja puhumisen ammattilainen James C. Paterson.
Move beyond surface-level interactions to build real organizational power.
Technical excellence alone won’t drive audit transformation or achieve the GRC changes you want. This workshop equips you with the sophisticated influencing skills and political acumen that distinguish the best audit leaders from competent managers.
Core Focus: Navigate complex stakeholder dynamics, decode organizational politics, and build influence without formal authority—while maintaining your ethical compass.
Who should attend?
Heads of internal audit and senior managers ready to elevate their strategic impact and proactively position audit as a value driver – not just a compliance function.
What will i learn?
Strategic Influence Architecture
- Deploy the Kano model to decode what truly drives your stakeholders
- Master the «hamburger model» for balancing task delivery with relationship capital
- Diagnose your influence style and adapt it for maximum impact
Psychological Edge
- Recognize and neutralize cognitive biases that derail critical conversations
- Navigate group dynamics that can make or break audit initiatives
- Transform «predictably irrational» behaviours into influence opportunities
Political Intelligence
- Reframe office politics from toxic game to strategic tool
- Map hidden agendas and power structures
- Build alliances that amplify your audit impact
- Handle «tricky situations» and challenging executives with finesse
Practical Application
- Apply Action Learning techniques to your live challenges
- Create targeted stakeholder strategies
- Develop your personal influence roadmap
course information
📅 Date and time
- Oct 13, 2025
- 10:00 – 16:30
🌐 Place
- Online, via Zoom
- The meeting link will be provided a few days before the course.
Cancellation policy:
• In case of cancellation 30 days before the start of the course, 0% of the participation fee must be paid.
• In case of cancellation 30-15 days before the start of the course, 50% of the participation fee must be paid.
• In case of cancellation 15 days or less before the start of the course, or no-show, 100% of the participation fee will be invoiced. This applies regardless of the reason, such as illness.
You can transfer your place to a colleague free of charge. Email sisaiset.tarkastajat@theiia.fi and let us know who will replace you.
Last registration day for this training is 6.10.2025. After that you can ask available spots by email at sisaiset.tarkastajat@theiia.fi.
📚 CPE 7
Puhujat
James C. Paterson
James C. Paterson is former head of audit for AstraZeneca PLC and has been consulting and training for the past 10 years for the IIA in Belgium, Finland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK.
He is the author of the book “Lean Auditing” and Root Cause Analysis and System Thinking and has spoken at several IIA International Conferences and also the ECIIA conference. He contributed to the IIA global team that worked on developing practice guidance for internal audit plans.