Talent Management

A majority of your success lies with your team, so talent management plays a key role in the effectiveness of your audit function. Here are the first steps to create a winning plan:

1. Get your function benchmarked.
2. Download the Talent Management practice guide.
3. Get your entire team’s skills mapped against the competency framework.

The IIA provides perspectives, insights, services, tools, and resources to support your team development, so use this resource page to build and augment your plan.

Access the latest articles, research, trending, and guidance covering talent management:

• 2016 Pulse of Internal Audit: Time to Move Out of the Comfort Zone
• Talent Management Practice Guide
• 2015 Compensation Study
• The Search for Top Talent
• Mentoring That Matters
• The CAE’s Journey
• Keep Your Eye on the Talent
• 10 Ways to Create, Develop, and Retain a Winning Audit Team

​Audit Channel
Tune in to subject matter experts as they discuss situations and strategies on more effective talent management:

 

Member Tools/Resources
Leverage these complimentary tools for team development and talent management:

• Audit Career Center™
• Blogs
• Your Career Compass Magazine
• Guidance: International Professional Practices Framework® (IPPF®)
• Internal Auditor Magazine
• IIA Resource Exchanges
• Newsletters
• Audit Channel® Videos

CAE Solutions
Keeping current on emerging trends, validating what you’re doing through benchmarking, and continually examining your processes by using assessments strengthens your team.

• Audit Executive Center®
• Specialty Industry Audit Centers
• Quality Assessment Services
• GAIN® Benchmarking Tool

Conferences
The IIA provides unique learning and networking opportunities where real solutions around critical issues such as talent and resource strategies are discovered and shared.

• General Audit Management Conference™ (GAM™)
• International Conference™

Certifications/Qualifications
Building credibility with stakeholders is key and IIA credentials strengthen your team’s knowledge base, validate acumen, and demonstrate adherence to professional standards.

• Certified Internal Auditor® (CIA®) and NEW! Internal Audit Practitioner™
• Qualification in Internal Audit Leadership® (QIAL®)
• Additional specialty certifications focus on industries and skills. Learn more

 

Books
The IIA Bookstore (powered by the Internal Audit Foundation) offers hundreds of educational products, reviewed by internal auditors for internal auditors and many of the educational content focuses on the unique challenges of retaining and recruiting talent.

• People-Centric Skills: Interpersonal Communication Skills for Auditors and business Professionals
• CAE Strategic Relationships: Building Rapport with the Executive Suite
• The Politics of Internal Auditing
• The Evolving Role of the CAE: Taking on Compliance and ERM
• Quality Assessment Manual for the Internal Audit Activity
• Essentials: World-Class Tools for Building an Internal Audit Activity, 2nd Edition

Training
Whether it’s individual or team development, The IIA offers the courseware that covers the full gamut of experience levels from the Beginning Auditor Tools and Techniques to Audit Report Writing to soft skills. Choose the training that fits your needs:

• On-site Team Training
• Seminars
• eLearning
• Executive Development

Over 130 Courses Available:

• Fundamentals of Internal Auditing 
• Beginning Auditor Tools and Techniques
• Audit Report Writing
• The Effective Auditor: Understanding and Applying Emotional Intelligence
• Fundamentals of IT Auditing
• Logging In: Auditing Cybersecurity in an Unsecure World
• Assessing Risk: Ensuring Internal Audit’s Value