Which is more painful: an audit or spending
holidays with Aunt Sally and her green Jell-O mold? Either way, your company audit still looms in your mind, but it shouldn’t be that scary – quite opposite. Besides, even Sally “audits” herself when she makes her mold, as she tests for thickness and taste. She just wants to improve.Fix Problem
So what are you going to do about your company audit? How about make an educated guess what problem is, assign someone to “fix” it, and sit back and relax…for another month or so? This is just another short-term solution.
Tackle Audit Head On
Instead, why not tackle audit head on, and kick its butt. A strange way to put it, maybe, but that’s how I see an audit after attending an Internal Auditor Skills Class. Don’t get me wrong, I still like managing by my own glorious opinion. But it got me thinking that maybe attitude of “just facts, ma’am” holds more water (and less hot air).
Close System Gaps
With role playing and actually writing up my own audit plans and reports, I got to see why unarguable evidence is so crucial to improving and even closing gaps in a company’s system. It becomes such a different world when you see firsthand all of scenes.
Of course, Les Cornelius, Quality Assurance Coordinator for Lee BioSolutions, Inc., put it better than I could. “Role playing and specific examples were helpful elements because they fully exercise brain in its learning capacity and help internalize and retain teachings”
