BOOK OF THE MONTH

CAE Strategic Relationships: Building Rapport with the Executive Suite    

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Today’s complex landscape requires a skill that is not necessarily new, but that is being recognized for its value and refined to maximize performance. CAE Strategic Relationships: Building Rapport with the Executive Suite captures the insights of in-depth interviews with 27 executives from 13 leading organizations in Europe and the United States to learn how relationships among organizational leaders can be leveraged to maximize performance.   

The subjects were evenly split between chief audit executives and stakeholders in the executive management suite. The interviews were structured around the relational coordination framework, a leading strategy for collaboration and communication developed at Brandeis University. Responses indicated that when high-quality communication strategies are employed, it creates trusted relationships between the CAE and senior executives, helps align and manage expectations, and leads to greater internal audit performance effectiveness.   

Through CAE Strategic Relationships, readers will learn how to apply the relational coordination framework to internal auditing to develop strong relationships based on the three key dimensions of the model: