Auditing – for Performance Improvement


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Overview

Audits traditionally seek to determine whether the organization’s management system conforms to the requirements of a relevant standard. Such audits rarely drive business performance improvement. This two-day course is designed to provide participants with the framework, methodology and skills required for conducting performance-based internal quality audits. Such audits in contrast, assess whether the organization’s management system design and/or operation meet the organization’s performance improvement objectives.

Approach

Attendees will learn through a combination of classroom lecturing and by doing in this highly interactive program taught by master instructors. The course helps students to master the concepts of performance-based auditing by giving them actual experience in auditing a real-life quality management system.

  • Learn how to conduct a process oriented audit
  • Apply newly acquired education and skills in the performance of a real performance based audit
  • Provide extensive coaching and performance feedback after each audit segment
  • Coaching provided on dealing with social skills and cultural aspects of auditing
  • Leave the course with real experience and confidence

What You Will Learn

  • Auditing to a performance-based compliance standard versus a conformance standard
  • Planning an internal performance-based quality or environmental audit
  • Conduct an internal quality audit
  • Evaluating system performance versus stated quality or environmental improvement goals
  • Prepare an audit plan
  • Writing up Corrective Action Requests for performance and conformance gaps
  • Conduct Follow-up audits
  • Close out an audit

Training Outcomes

Graduates of this course will have the experience, technical knowledge, and confidence needed to be able to carry out an effective performance-centric audit. Such an audit will assess whether their organization’s management system’s design and operation met their organization’s quality and environmental performance improvement objectives.

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