Audit Strategy you can do in 30 minutes

 Let’s be honest, we all have lots of audits, and most of us will have a routine (weekly, monthly) but how many of us have a strategy? We are in a place of completing audits for audit’s sake, creating a checklist exercise and having that sense of relief when its off our to do list.

I often see in the manager groups a consistent theme coming up “we audit a lot, but I am not sure we are learning much”, so I thought I would take this blog, not to write about how to audit more, but how to use 30 minutes to define a strategy to reset, and it starts with one uncomfortable question ‘why are we auditing at all?’

Step One – The Why

There are three questions you need to ask yourself:

  1. What problem are we trying to prevent or understand?
  2. Who is the audit really for?
  3. What would better look and feel like?

In order to understand some of this, we have to look at the why and ask ourselves why we are auditing. Is it because:

 

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