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Manage change, federal budgets, projects, and acquisitions: apply transition management models, GPRA performance measures, simplified acquisition rules, purchase-card compliance, and group problem-solving techniques in administrative roles.
Navigate federal-sector labor relations: apply 5 U.S.C. Chapter 71, run formal discussions and Weingarten rights, bargain scope, manage official time, grievances, and unfair labor practice cases.
Apply creative and critical thinking tools — SWOT, PESTLE, brainwriting, fishbone diagrams, nominal group technique — to define audit problems and pitch persuasive recommendations to management.
Master advanced personnel security adjudication skills, handling sensitive cases and applying adjudicative guidelines across 14 modules covering loyalty, foreign influence, conduct, and clearance determinations.
Learn to draft, organize, format, revise, and proofread clear government technical documents, from emails and memos to reports and procedures.
Use stakeholder analysis, communication planning, and interest-based negotiation to resolve project conflicts and align stakeholder expectations.
Build personal and professional effectiveness by aligning accountability, communication, mindset, and SMART goals with values and desired outcomes.
Covers 2024 Yellow Book revisions for government audits, including updated ethics, independence, fieldwork, quality management, and performance-audit reporting.
Structures the mentoring relationship end to end—six-stage process, mentoring agreement, GROW questioning, feedback, and career development plans—plus choosing among flash, peer, reverse and virtual formats.
Teaches auditors to spot bribery and kickback schemes in procurement—red flags, audit trails, lifestyle indicators—and to collect evidence and write referral reports.
Learn how federal budgets and financial transactions move from appropriation to disbursement, using internal controls and spending rules to strengthen audit effectiveness.
Build emotional intelligence for audit work: self-awareness with DiSC, self-control under pressure, empathy, conflict tools such as TKI, and persuasion through ethos, pathos, and logos.
Manage workplace conflict constructively: use active listening, DESC assertiveness scripts, a four-part feedback model, the Thomas-Kilmann instrument, and win-win negotiation to build action plans.
Plan and execute governmental performance audits: assess internal control using GAO's Green Book, build findings from evidence, run survey phases, and write audit reports.
Plan, test, and report IT controls audits: risk-based scoping, GAO/NIST/ISACA guidance, CAATs, general and application controls, plus a full audit case study.
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