2025

IIA Winnipeg Chapter

Summer Lunch and Learn (Virtual)

Presentation: Productivity As a Team Sport – How IA Teams Can Work Better Together and Really Can Do More with Less

Date: June 18, 2025

Time: 12:00pm to 1:30pm CST

 

 

 

 

 

IIA Winnipeg is excited to collaborate with Heart & Stroke Canada for Stroke Awareness Month!

 

If you are interested in making a donation to Heart & Stroke, see the donation link below.

 

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A sports team comes together to play on the court, on the field, or on the ice together. But each team member must train on their own in the gym, on the track, or in the pool to have the strength, endurance, and skill they need to win the game.

It’s no different in the work world, or for internal audit teams. Team productivity depends on the work of its individual contributors, as well as how they come together as a team.

While it's trendy to talk about tools, technology, meetings, and other gimmicks to solve our team productivity problems, team productivity is often about the stuff we don’t see. It’s about our collective skills, the trust we have in each other, how we share information, and how we let others do their jobs or know when to step in, and, most of all, how to keep the momentum going.

Wherever you sit in a corporate internal audit role, a leadership position, or consulting, the only thing we can count on in our new world of knowledge work is that our success and careers are continually at risk of disruption. Being an expert is no longer enough. Today, there is less focus on your past — your resume, courses, credentials — and more focus on what you can do and bring to the table, your ability to influence others and drive change, and your style of working. Simply put, we all need to up our game when it comes to solving problems, working with others, and leveraging the power of our teams.

This is a light, fun presentation designed to stir conversation and to provide you and your teams with helpful tools, frameworks, and techniques for making you more productive and helping you to work better together.

The session shares 8 Team Productivity Super “Secrets” that Adrienne has developed over her many years of writing, exploring, and speaking about productivity best practices: 

• SECRET 1: Yes, There’s an “I” in Team: Start with FOYOS* (*Focus on Your Own Stuff)
• SECRET 2: Build Your Team: Use Skill-Stacking
• SECRET 3: Earn Trust: Learn the Trust Equation
• SECRET 4: Get S*it Done: The 4 Codes of Human Workflow
• SECRET 5: Leverage Your Team Smarts: Use What You Know
• SECRET 6: Get Effective Feedback: Pass When Ready Review
• SECRET 7: Get Out of Stuck Mode: The Groundhog Trap
• SECRET 8: Get Clear and Get Going: Practice PGoR (Plan Go Regroup)

SPEAKER

Adrienne Bellehumeur, CPA, CA

Adrienne Bellehumeur is the owner and lead consultant of Risk Oversight, a consulting firm specializing in SOX, CSOX, internal control and internal audit programs. She is also the owner of Bellehumeur Co. where she speaks regularly about documentation, workflow, and productivity best practices to professional groups and organizations of all sizes and industries. Adrienne is the author of THE 24-HOUR RULE—and Other Secrets for Smarter Organizations (BenBella PenguinRandomHouse 2023) which you can think of as the first “mass market” book on documentation best practices.