ISO9001 Lead Auditor training

Since 1999, QAI has taught tens of thousands of people to be effective auditors, audit team members, and audit team leaders.  Our successful pass-fail rate of over 98% proves that point.   

In 2006, QAI paved the way for an ISO9001 Lead Auditor training class that matches the normal working hours that adults are accustomed to working.  And, instead of cramming in an outdated style of brain dump training that is based purely on the results of a 2-hour examination on day five, in the QAI competency based Lead Auditor training session you’ll get four days of 8a-5p instruction that includes hands on activities and practice, with multi-media and high tech video training techniques that make your training enjoyable, learnable, fast, challenging and, therefore, fun with results that are measurable.   

Competency based training includes multiple examination activities that take place several times each day. You’ll receive feedback and guidance in each examination activity.  The feedback and guidance are to help make certain that you not only understand the material but are able to apply it in your job.  These multiple examinations help us to assure that students understand and are grasping material. It enables our expert instructors to assess the learning and instruction that has occurred to that point, provide guidance to help the student understand any gaps that may not have been closed to that point.  Re-assessing and re-guiding from an instructor with real world experiences helps to improve your confidence in your abilities, help you to apply the newly learned information, and helps to make you a competence person.

This training course includes a competency based training evaluation designed by QAI.  Forget about the 'boot camp' days of ISO9001 Lead Auditor training because you'll leave this newly designed training course everyday by 5pm.  Plus, you’ll have the peace of mind of knowing your final pass-fail results during the class not days or weeks later.  Competency based training is different: let us show you, and your students, how competency based training is different, better, and provides the opportunity to create more experienced, effective and competent auditors.

With energetic, enthusiastic, and experienced internationally certified auditors as our instructors you'll get more than just a pretty face at all QAI training sessions. Designed from scratch as a competency based training session, you can forget about the 'boot camp' days of lead auditor training: this class runs 8a-5p each day.  No long nights with mounds of homework.  Come see how competency based training is different.

In this QMS Lead Auditor course, you get real-world, professional know-how partnered with outstanding training materials.  A handsome, durable, and professionally prepared student book will display smartly and unmistakably and will serve you nicely in your reference section for years to come. Finally, you get the support of an ISO9001 registered training company. 

With multiple, progressive learning approaches including hands-on practice auditing, our QMS Lead Auditor training course prepare graduates to become proficient and professional QMS auditors. 

The course includes a complete and thorough review of the ISO9001 standard including a look back at the history of quality leading up to the current QMS system.  Our big picture course section helps cement the financial side of the QMS and helps students to best understand how a QMS really works ($$).

Lecture topics will include implementation and documentation strategies and methods. Workshop activities are designed to strengthen your ability to assess a QMS system and its compliance to the standard.

Group case studies with mock auditing reinforce the learning process and help to familiarize you with process auditing. The course is designed around an actual case study of a facility and its’ Quality Management Systems. Students end the course conducting an assessment of the case study facility and making a recommendation on registration. 

Under the new competency requirements program, we administer examinations throughout the course so that you get feedback right away and throughout the course about how well you are doing.   When you leave this course you will already know if you have passed the course: no more waiting for results of a final examination like the old boot camp days of Lead Auditor training. 

If you're in line to take a lead auditor training class, you're really going to like the new competency based training format used by QAI in all of our Lead Auditor training classes.  This format helps ensure that the entire class is progressing, understanding, and comprehending the material using competency based skills testing at various points throughout the class.  We've taught thousands of persons using this format.  Students like this format because they know if they have passed when they leave the class not weeks later.  Instructors like this format because they get feedback along the way about well they are doing in transferring critical knowledge.  It is a blend that works for everyone.
Course Hours:  Four days 8a- 5p

Certified training: Yes or No?  The choice is up to you.

Now, you can choose.  In 13+ years of providing certified lead auditor training courses, we’ve changed our courses dramatically to match the changing needs of our customers.  Twenty five years after ISO9001 was first introduced, a lot of people want lead auditor training but do not intend on changing careers to become a professional auditor. Customers have been asking  ‘ why do I have to pay the extra money for a certified training course if I don’t intend to pay the annual dues to join the organization and become a certified auditor?’.  Good question.

The choice is up to you, now.  We offer the same side-by-side schedules in cities all over the USA. The training is exactly the same whether you register for the certified version of the course or the QAI version.  You will receive the same competency evaluation processes.  You will receive an