[Autogenerated] in the last model.
We talked about consulting que essays on assessing que essays.
So now let's assume that you picked up your qs so you gotta que
eso is going to do an assessment for you.
What tips do you have about working with a Q S?
A.
I would say start with understanding who on that team
from your assessor firm is involved, right?
And it's very rare that it should just be a single person who has no other
colleagues that they're working with on the engagement.
But there may be a more senior person 70 in the
management team or partner in the firm, uh,
who was involved, at least on account, layer on.
And then very likely,
there's some manager senior manager that's involved in the project.
And then the individual sort of assessor or assessors that are that are the
folks that during the primary effort in the validation,
so get to know them and get to know their roles and how their team interacts.
Ah understand sort of their workflow.
Very often, assessors have some methodology for how they want to review things,
how they want to collect evidence,
how they want to provide feedback and give you findings.
You may have your own ways of wanting to do that from from
your GRC or your compliance efforts.
But, you know, try to meet in the middle at the least,
eso that you're not sort of bending their methodology too much,
and maybe they're not bending yours too much.
So we're work together on that.
Figure out what your schedule of discussions is going to be like,
obviously work out.
You know,
the schedule for your on site efforts to try to figure out how
to make the best use of everyone's time.
Your teams, your assessors, teams time.
Uh, you know,
a lot of cases over the years where we go on site and
maybe we've put together an agenda.
And maybe we've been very clear about what we want to
cover and who we want to talk to.
And whoever is sort of managing that from our client side,
uh,
either hasn't done a very good job or doesn't have enough sort of
influence or authority within the organization.
It's actually get people to show up to the meetings.
Uh, and so then we end of wasting a lot of time on site on,
and we don't cover a lot of things.
And we don't, uh, you know, talk to the people we need to.
We don't walk away with enough definitive answers,
and we don't gather very much evidence on.
So then the assessment needle only moves just a little bit, right?
Right.
But there's still so much left to do.
And the cost needles already moved.
The cost single has moved in.
The progress Needle hasn't really.
And that's not the situation you want.
That must be frustrating for you as an accessory if you're there on site.
But the people who need to talkto aren't available.
The documents are there.
The network guy can't show the network configurations.
Yeah, that doesn't use people's time.
Well, it doesn't use our time.
Well, it doesn't use our clients time.
Well, you know, we're away from home for essentially no good reason.
And then that's just not good for anybody.