What Is It?
Your audit team can now get the benefits of Angela’s proven training and feedback:
- At a time and location most convenient for your team members.
- At a fixed per-person cost.
- Customized to reinforce your own department’s report format and style.
- Consistent with your team’s standards for effective and timely reports.
With independent study by auditors and remote coaching from Angela, this training involves:
- No travel costs.
- No block of time away from the office.
- No logistics.
- No need to coordinate multiple schedules.
Who Can Benefit?
Individual coaching is effective and appropriate for the following:
- New hires in audit departments who have previously provided Angela Maniak's writing workshop to the rest of their audit staff.
- Professionals who have participated in Angela Maniak's writing workshop and desire further feedback and development.
- Audit departments who want to make their report-writing more effective, timely, and efficient.
- Individuals who recognize a need and have a desire to strengthen their writing skills.
Angela Explains How It Works
If your internal audit department has previously offered Angela’s on-site writing workshop, you are ready to maintain your standards for report quality and timeliness by training new hires promptly.
I offer a method for accomplishing that quickly and economically. Instead of waiting 12 or more months until you have enough new hires for an in-house workshop, you can use my services remotely to train new hires.
My method employs the following:
- New hires’ reading of text and completion of exercises I provide.
- New hires’ review of your internal audit department’s report template and writing guidelines.
- My consultation with the new hires to assess their on-the-job writing.
- My one-on-one coaching of new hires to develop the needed writing skills.
My work can be done remotely via phone and internet, and so it provides a training solution that is:
- Timely—delivered within three months of a new hire’s starting date.
- Cost-effective—no travel expenses are incurred.
- Results-oriented—coaching is geared to your department’s standards as well as each individual’s needs.
- The professional fee for training new hires is on a fixed per-person cost.
Contact Angela Maniak at 207-338-0108 for further details.
For individual professionals who have previously participated in my training, remote coaching involves:
- Consultation with the individual to identify goals for improvements in writing skills.
- My review of on-the-job writing samples and feedback to the individual.
- Coaching on methods to strengthen writing skills.
- Follow-up as needed to ensure successful learning.
- The professional fee for one-on-one coaching is on an hourly basis.
Contact Angela Maniak at 207-338-0108 for further details.
For departments or individuals who have not previously participated in my training, I start with a consultation to determine your specific goals and assess your current reporting practices. This includes:
- My review of report samples you provide.
- Discussion with you to learn your goals for the coaching engagement.
- Collaboration with you to set achievable and measurable objectives and agree on the scope and cost of the engagement.
Contact Angela Maniak at 207-338-0108 for further details.
My Approach to Coaching
Whether I am working with new auditors or experienced professionals, staff or management, my goals are to enable writers to:
- Understand and apply objective criteria for audit report writing.
- Proactively engage in setting goals for improved writing skills.
- Draft reports according to their internal audit department’s expectations and guidelines.
- Do objective self-assessments of their writing.
- Develop pride of authorship and retain ownership of their writing.
As a writing coach, I do the following:
- Understand the report template, writing guidelines, and style guide in place in the writers’ internal audit departments.
- Collaborate with writers to identify their goals.
- Provide objective and constructive feedback on writing samples provided by the writers.
- Deliver feedback so that writers understand and accept the input.
- Coach writers to enable them to improve their writing quickly and significantly.
- Provide feedback to writers that is consistent with their audit management’s expectations and criteria for effective writing.
- Respond promptly to writers’ requests for feedback and coaching.
- Periodically report to audit management on writers’ progress.