Define the auditor selection criteria (see post #5 above) complete with how conformity will be assessed.
Discuss these requirements with your internal auditors and gracefully accept any resignations.
Engage top management in selecting employees for auditor training.
Monitor auditor performance against the selection criteria.
Thank you for the reply, my Top Management put whole responsibilities on me to train the auditors.
I have experience hiring other department HOD, which although good with the processes of another department, but finding that they have a problem in writing the audit finding and identifying what needs to be spotted, or how to take evidence of audit e.g no record of sighted service report, details of the report as evidence. Too many audit Jargon terms for them to understand as they have been depending on part-time auditors for more than 30 years.
End-up hiring my own staff to become internal auditors- including auditing own department (One is RA, auditing the QA, QA will audit other departments). On a daily basis, I will meet them and will have opportunities to share the auditing processes, without worrying to interrupt their daily task and schedule for meetings and discussions.
What is the standard practice for a company to train these internal auditors?
One day internal training? Outside training? let them read the standard themselves?
How to gauge that they can understand the standard and able to perform good auditing as well as having a systematic style of reporting, and finding that actually benefited towards the improvement of company management.
The only time I can gauge them is on the next round of audit which is next year, that if they are still working, well new blood seems to love job-hopping after 1-2 years.