Interviewing Skills To Detect Deception for Internal Auditors (ISDDA)

Obtaining accurate information is essential at the best of times but with the current economic uncertainty, it presents even greater challenges for Internal Auditors. During audits, we seek an open and honest exchange of information with clients who often lie for various reasons.

To further complicate matters, some clients will go to great lengths to learn impression management skills, and internal auditors are often poorly prepared to combat the client’s ability to mislead them.

This course will better prepare you for this by teaching nonconfrontational and reliable interviewing techniques. You will also learn the basics to becoming a human lie-detector by understanding how to analyse statements and read the various facets of body language to detect deception in conversation or during interviews.

Outcomes:

• Interviewing Skills and Body Language interpretation are both recommended competencies by the IIA Global Internal Audit Competency Framework, which is a tool that defines the competencies needed by internal auditors to meet the requirements of the IPPF.
• This course will enable the auditor to formally be successful in conducting an interview utilising forensic interviewing skills.
• To develop the people knowledge, communication skills and behaviours required by an internal auditor to successfully manage the people dynamics during the interviewing process in order to detect deception.