Search | CQI | IRCA Skip to main content

Search

Find quality content.

Hugh Edwards

Developing quality skills

Published: 12 Mar 2024

As part of a series of articles in which quality professionals share their experiences of different quality qualifications, Hugh Edwards, Quality Manager at Qnostics, describes his experience of achieving an MSc in Quality Management at the University of the West of Scotland.

A meeting taking place

The Hawthorne effect

Published: 4 Mar 2024

If the outcome of an audit is influenced by the very act of carrying out the audit in the first place, how can we ever ensure accuracy? Welcome to the paradox that is the Hawthorne effect.

Man listens carefully to a woman

Just listen....

Published: 29 Feb 2024

Last month we took a look at the noble art of questioning. Let’s now explore an even more important skill – how to listen to the answers we get.

Asking questions

The art of asking the right question

Published: 25 Jan 2024

In the search for answers, we don’t often stop to think whether we are asking the right questions, but for anyone working in auditing, this key skill should not be underestimated.

Catriona Large, winner of the Emerging Talent Award at the 2023 IQA

Developing a quality career

Published: 2 Oct 2023

We catch up with Catriona Large, Quality and HSE Advisor at CGG, winner of the Emerging Talent category at the CQI’s International Quality Awards 2023.

Breaking down language barriers

Published: 3 Oct 2022

Quality Engineer Benjamin Clifford, who works for DISCO Corporation in Japan, was a finalist in the Emerging Talent category at this year’s CQI International Quality Awards. Here, he explains his journey into auditing, and how a multi-lingual auditing programme is improving standards in his organisation.