International Corporate Compliance Certification Program – Compact Course
Description:
- Sensitivity Workshop: Introduction to Compliance: The participants must become aware that organizations need to seek mechanisms to avoid incurring any type of civil, administrative, and/or criminal liability.
- Development of Integrity Culture & Ethical Management; The participants have the capacity to develop instruments facilitating the embodiment of the entity's expected values and behaviors, and the various ways in which ethical situations can be addressed.
- Compliance and Anti-bribery Management System: The participants know the requirements of the ISO 37001 and ISO 37301 standard involves analyzing the organization's context, assessing risks, and designing operational controls to facilitate the development of the management system.
- Compliance and Anti-bribery Risk Management: The participants know with the risk management framework outlined in ISO 31000, enabling them to implement a compliance risk management system.
- Analysis and Evaluation of the Legal and Regulatory Environment: the participant understands the obligations of applicable legal compliance.
- Best Practices in Corporate Governance and Board Management: The participants know the key guidelines outlined in ISO 37303: Guidance for Corporate Governance.
- Corporate Sustainability Compliance: The participants are knowledgeable about integrating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors into the compliance strategy.
- Specific Risk Areas (participants must choose one of them compulsorily, the others are optional):
8.1 Digital Compliance: The participants know mechanisms for preventing the improper use of insider information related to information security and the protection of personal data
8.2 Corruption Prevention: Anti-bribery, Fraud, Collusion, Influence Peddling, and Misuse of Insider Information: Participants can identify the core elements of fraud, including practices prescribed by international standards and national legislation concerning corruption schemes.
8.3 Money Laundering: Provide the necessary tools to understand relevant theoretical and normative concepts regarding money laundering, as well as to identify risks within organizations.
8.2 Corruption Prevention: Anti-bribery, Fraud, Collusion, Influence Peddling, and Misuse of Insider Information: Participants can identify the core elements of fraud, including practices prescribed by international standards and national legislation concerning corruption schemes.
8.3 Money Laundering: Provide the necessary tools to understand relevant theoretical and normative concepts regarding money laundering, as well as to identify risks within organizations.
- Concerns & Whistleblowing Management System: The participant understands the relevant aspects for creating, implementing, managing, and improving a whistleblowing channel, as well as recommendations for managing internal investigations.
- Due diligence processes: The participant is familiar with the key aspects of due diligence processes and the tools available for their development.
- Internal Audit: Participants acquire skills and abilities to plan, prepare, conduct, and execute internal audits, analyze the Audit Program and process, and obtain results that enable the improvement of the Management System and the Organization's processes.
Previous skills/knowledge: No prior knowledge is required; the program is aimed at Leaders and compliance collaborators, HR representatives, legal advisors, legal experts, professionals or students in fields related to corporate practices, consultants, internal auditors, third-party auditors, seeking to deepen their knowledge in compliance and in the application, implementation, and improvement of management systems, programs, and ethical policies.
Authorized Partners:
Teaching requirements: Trainer to be qualified in integrated management Systems; to have experience in implementation and management of ISO 37001 and ISO 37301; with professional experience (lawyer specialized) in compliance matters; Course theoretical and practical approach.
Objectives to achieve: The participants will be empowered to contribute to enhancing the corporate image and reputation of the company, to providing transparency and security, facilitating its connections with any national or multinational company.
This program provides the knowledge and tools necessary to design, implement, manage, and enhance an effective Compliance System, helping organizations to operate with best practices in an ethical, responsible, and sustainable manner, and to create a corporate culture based on values such as integrity, transparency, and accountability.
The Corporate Compliance Professional will be able to identify and assess specific risks and establish appropriate policies and procedures to mitigate them, as well as contribute to creating a culture of compliance and ethics in their organization, ensuring that their relationships with third parties are consistent with their values and best practices.
This program provides the knowledge and tools necessary to design, implement, manage, and enhance an effective Compliance System, helping organizations to operate with best practices in an ethical, responsible, and sustainable manner, and to create a corporate culture based on values such as integrity, transparency, and accountability.
The Corporate Compliance Professional will be able to identify and assess specific risks and establish appropriate policies and procedures to mitigate them, as well as contribute to creating a culture of compliance and ethics in their organization, ensuring that their relationships with third parties are consistent with their values and best practices.
ISO 37301 Lead Auditor
Description:
- To collect and analyse enough evidences (e.g. through interview, observation and sampling of documentation) to determine the audit findings and define the audit conclusions
- To audit the effective implementation of compliance specific operations and tools
- To document the audit findings
- To participate in the selection of the audit team
- To prepare of the audit plan
- To represent of the audit team before the customer
- To give instructions to the audit team
- To interchange information with the rest of the members of the audit team and with the auditee personnel
- To be responsible of all the audit steps
- To inform of any relevant obstacle identify during the audit process
- To draft and present the audit report
- To follow up and close the audit process
Previous skills/knowledge: Demonstrable knowledge of the ISO 37301 requirements
Authorized Partners:
Teaching requirements: -
Objectives to achieve:
To get the necessary knowledge and skills to:
To get the necessary knowledge and skills to:
- Understand the principles of audit
- Be able to assume responsibilities in any step of the auditing process
- Understand the functions and competences that any auditor must have to carry out first and second party, and certification audits
- Be able to apply auditing guidelines to ISO 37301 audits
- Carry out compliance audits
- Apply the proper interpretation of the ISO 37301 in actual audit situations
- Plan the audit
- Define the responsibilities of the audit team´s members
- Know the functions and attitudes that an auditor must follow
- Identify and write non-conformities and other deviations
Sustainability Management Expert
Description:
Previous skills/knowledge: It is intended to management, decision-makers, project managers or ambassadors of sustainability in the company, business development managers or coordinators, to the producers of the sustainability report and to everyone who is interested in this field.
Previous skills or knowledge:
Previous skills or knowledge:
- several years of work experience in technical, commercial, or business fields of activity,
- interest in business and organizational contexts and topics of circular economy development and management,
Authorized Partners:
Teaching requirements: Advanced knowledge and understanding of sustainability dimensions gained through academic / research / development / implementation / management experience in quality, sustainability, circular economy, environmental and social aspects.
Objectives to achieve: To get the necessary knowledge and skills of:
- sustainable development, social responsibility, related regulations, standards, and reporting frameworks
- identify environmental risks and opportunities,
- learn about the social aspect of sustainability,
- effective sustainable management in practice.
Circular Globe Transformation Coach Representative/IQNET
Description:
The Course empowers "Transformation Coaches" to develop, launch and successfully implement circular economy projects in their organizations.
Previous skills/knowledge:
- The certificate course "Circular Globe Transformation Coach" is aimed at entrepreneurs, decision-makers and transformers with the willingness to change and the courage to innovate, who want to want to actively shape and steer the path towards the circular economy in their own organization.
- Several years of professional experience in technical, commercial or business management fields of activity.
- Interest in business and scientific contexts and topics of organizational development and recycling management and the circular economy.
- Participants should already have had an insight into organizations and have had the opportunity to gain an in-depth insight into the company's activities - in relation to the various functions and systems.
Authorized Partners:
Authorized Partners:
Teaching requirements: - Trainers to be qualified based on introductory trainings held by the Representative Circular Globe product responsible or already qualified Trainers; - Qualified as Assessor for the CGA Scheme; experience in the implementation & Managing of circular Eco
Objectives to achieve:
Graduates of this training are able to develop circular economy concepts in the organisation. They understand the assigned tasks for implementation, master the necessary project steps and know best practice examples to compare their approaches. The systematic approaches that underlie such change projects are well known to graduates. They are able to actively accompany and steer transformation processes. Participants benefit from the fact that the lecturers have a great deal of experience in their respective specialist areas and are successfully active in the Representative seminars. They work out the framework for the relevant topics and put them into practice with the help of numerous practical exercises. With introductory presentations, teaching talks, moderated and guided discussions as well as stimulating visualization methods, the learning content is actively conveyed.
Knowledge and skills to:
- Develop a circular economy within the respective organisation
- Understand the necessary tasks and project steps to plan and implement this
- Gain insight into best practice examples
- Systemic approach to change management
ISO 55001 Lead Auditor
Description: Competences detailed in 55001 AMS Internal auditor MTS 028, plus ( e.g. as required by ISO/IEC17021-5)
- To participate in the selection of the audit team
- To prepare the audit plan
- To represent the audit team before the customer
- To give instructions to the audit team
- To inform of any relevant obstacle identify during the audit process
- To be responsible of all the audit steps
- To present the audit report
- To follow up and close the audit process.
Previous skills/knowledge:
- Demonstrable knowledge of ISO 55001 Assest management systems (AMS) requirements
- Demonstrable evidence of participation in ISO 55001 audits (>1 audit recommended)
- Professional experience, including in asset registration/management (recommended).
Authorized Partners:
Teaching requirements: - Trainer to be a qualified ISO ISO 55001 Asset Management System Lead Auditor; - Course to be developed in classroom (at least 24 hours).
Objectives to achieve: Objectives detailed in ISO 55001 AMS internal auditor MTS 028, plus
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To get the necessary knowledge and skills to:
- Apply the proper interpretation of the standard in actual audit situations
- Plan the audit
- Carry out AMS management system audits
- Define the responsibilities of the audit team´s members
- Know the functions and attitudes that an auditor must follow
- To effectively coordinate meetings with the audit team members and/or with auditee personnel
- Identify and write non-conformities and other deviations and suggest ways in which the effectiveness of corrective action might be verified.
ISO 55001 Internal Auditor
Description:
- To follow the instructions of the lead auditor and support him
- To collect and analyze enough evidences (e.g. through interview, observation and sampling of documentation) to determine the audit findings and define the audit conclusions
- To audit the effective implementation of AMS specific operations and tools (such as including outsourcing, life cycle costing, risk management, asset registration, capital, operational and maintenance planning and statistical sampling technics)
- To document the audit findings
- To collaborate in drafting the audit report
- To interchange information with the rest of the members of the audit team and with the auditee personnel.
Previous skills/knowledge:
- Demonstrable knowledge of ISO 55001 asset management systems (AMS) requirements
- Professional experience, including related to QMS/EMS/OHSAS (or other international standard based) management systems (recommended)
- Knowledge or professional experience in Risk Assessment (recommended).
Authorized Partners:
Teaching requirements: - Trainer to be a qualified as an ISO 55001 Asset Management system Auditor - Course to be developed in classroom
Objectives to achieve: To get the necessary knowledge and skills to:
- Be qualifiable as ISO 55001 AMS internal auditor (additional requirements from qualifying entity may apply, namely regarding organizational sector and related context and technology, applicable laws and regulations, key contractual and other stakeholder requirements)
- Understand the principles of internal audit
- Be able to assume responsibilities in any activity of the internal auditing process
- Understand the functions and competences that any auditor must have to carry out first, second party, and certification audits
- Be able to apply auditing guidelines to ISO 55001 AMS internal audits.
ISO 22301 Lead Auditor
Description: Competences detailed in BCM Internal auditor MTS 024, plus ( as required by ISO/IEC17021-6)
- Be qualifiable as ISO 22301 BCM Lead auditor (additional requirements for auditing may apply, such as the context of the audited organization, applicable laws and regulations);
- To explain the different phases of the BCM life-cycle;
- Understand the interrelationships between BCM elements;
- To know BCM related concepts, tools and activities, including business impact analysis (BIA) and risk assessment, continuity and recovery strategies, incident management, business continuity plans, exercises and performance evaluation);
- To participate in the selection of the audit team
- To prepare the audit plan
- To represent the audit team before the customer
- To give instructions to the audit team
- To inform of any relevant obstacle identified during the audit process
- To be responsible of all the audit steps
- To present the audit report
- To follow up and close the audit process.
Previous skills/knowledge:
- To have an university degree (recommended);
- To have demonstrable work experience (at least 4 years), including business management experience (minimum 2 years);
- To be qualified as an MS Auditor by an IQNet Ltd Representative (at least 2 years experience);
- To have proven competence in risk management (recommended). Training in risk assessment may be considered as a (mandatory) substitute.
Authorized Partners:
Teaching requirements: - Trainer to be a qualified BCM lead auditor; - Course to be developed in classroom - Case studies and extensive practical examples to be included.
Objectives to achieve:
- To provide the necessary knowledge on Business Continuity Management (BCM), and especially on, to be able to perform IQNet BCM audits .
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To reach this main goal, other objectives include:
- To understand the concept and scale of BCM;
- To know the main issues of in ISO 22301;
- To analyze the requirements of ISO22301 standard as model for the implementation of a BCM Management Systems;
- To evaluate the benefits derived from the implementation of BCM Management Systems;
- To know the IQNet BCM certification scheme and how to perform certification audits.
ISO 22301 Internal Auditor
Description:
- To follow the instructions of the lead auditor and support him
- To collect and analyze enough evidences (e.g. through interview, observation and sampling of documentation) to determine the audit findings and define the audit conclusions
- To audit the effective implementation of BCM specific operations and tools (such as including business impact analysis (BIA), incident management, business continuity plans, exercises and performance evaluation)
- To document the audit findings
- To collaborate in drafting the audit report
- To interchange information with the rest of the members of the audit team and with the auditee personnel.
Previous skills/knowledge:
- Demonstrable knowledge of the BCM terminology and of the ISO 22301 Business Continuity Management (BCM) management systems requirements
- Professional experience, including related to QMS/EMS/ISMS/RMS (or other international standard based) management systems (recommended)
- Knowledge or professional experience in Risk Assessment (recommended).
Authorized Partners:
Teaching requirements: - Trainer to be a qualified as an ISO 22301 Auditor - Course to be developed in classroom
Objectives to achieve: To get the necessary knowledge and skills to:
- Be qualifiable as ISO 22301 internal auditor (additional requirements from qualifying entity may apply, namely regarding organizational context and applicable laws and regulations)
- Understand the principles of internal audit
- Be able to assume responsibilities in any activity of the internal auditing process
- Understand the functions and competences that any auditor must have to carry out first, second party, and certification audits
- Be able to apply auditing guidelines to ISO 22301 internal audits.
ISO 19600 Lead Auditor
Description:
Competences detailed in ISO 19600 Compliance Internal auditor MTS 014, plus
Competences detailed in ISO 19600 Compliance Internal auditor MTS 014, plus
- To participate in the selection of the audit team
- To prepare of the audit plan
- To represent of the audit team before the customer
- To give instructions to the audit team
- To inform of any relevant obstacle identify during the audit process
- To be responsible of all the audit steps
- To present the audit report
- To follow up and close the audit process.
Previous skills/knowledge:
- Demonstrable knowledge of ISO 19600:2014
- Demonstrable evidence of participation in ISO 19600/Compliance audits (>1 audit recommended)
- Professional experience, including in Compliance management systems (recommended).
Authorized Partners:
Teaching requirements: Trainer to be a qualified ISO 9001/QMS and/or other MS and/or ISO 19600/Compliance MS Lead Auditor (recommended); - Course to be developed in classroom (at least 24 hours).
Objectives to achieve: Objectives detailed in ISO 19600 Compliance Internal auditor MTS 014, plus
To get the necessary knowledge and skills to:
To get the necessary knowledge and skills to:
- Apply the proper interpretation of the standard in actual audit situations
- Plan the audit
- Carry out compliance management system audits
- Define the responsibilities of the audit team´s members
- Know the functions and attitudes that an auditor must follow
- To effectively coordinate meetings with the audit team members and/or with auditee personnel
- Identify and write non-conformities and other deviations and suggest ways in which the effectiveness of corrective action might be verified.
ISO 19600 Internal Auditor
Description:
- To follow the instructions of the lead auditor and support him
- To collect and analyze enough evidences (e.g. through interview, observation and sampling of documentation) to determine the audit findings and define the audit conclusions
- To document the audit findings
- To collaborate in drafting the audit report
- To interchange information with the rest of the members of the audit team and with the auditee personnel.
Previous skills/knowledge: - Demonstrable knowledge of ISO 19600:2014 requirements
- Professional experience, including related to QMS/EMS (or other international standard based) management systems (recommended).
- Professional experience, including related to QMS/EMS (or other international standard based) management systems (recommended).
Authorized Partners:
Teaching requirements: - Trainer to be a qualified ISO 9001/QMS and/or ISO 14001/EMS and/or ISO 19600:2014 Lead Auditor (recom-mended) - Course to be developed in classroom.
Objectives to achieve: To get the necessary knowledge and skills to:
o Be qualifiable as ISO 19600:2014/Compliance internal auditor (additional requirements from qualifying entity may apply, namely regarding relevant applicable laws, including legislative requirements, industry codes and organizational standards, as well as stand-ards of good corporate governance, best practices, ethics and community expectations)
o Understand the principles of internal audit
o Be able to assume responsibilities in any activity of the internal auditing process
o Understand the functions and competences that any auditor must have to carry out first, second party, and certification audits
o Be able to apply auditing guidelines to ISO 19600:2014/Compliance internal audits.
o Be qualifiable as ISO 19600:2014/Compliance internal auditor (additional requirements from qualifying entity may apply, namely regarding relevant applicable laws, including legislative requirements, industry codes and organizational standards, as well as stand-ards of good corporate governance, best practices, ethics and community expectations)
o Understand the principles of internal audit
o Be able to assume responsibilities in any activity of the internal auditing process
o Understand the functions and competences that any auditor must have to carry out first, second party, and certification audits
o Be able to apply auditing guidelines to ISO 19600:2014/Compliance internal audits.