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Webinar on Workplace Investigations - Witnesses Interview Strategies – Training Doyens

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OVERVIEW In workplace investigations witness interviews are often especially challenging because many employees for a variety of reasons are reluctant to be involved and can be less than forthcoming. Join our upcoming webinar to be presented by Teri Morning to learn the employee investigations best practices and ways to assess credibility of witnesses combined with the facts as presented. LEARNING OBJECTIVES In theory, investigatory interviewing sounds easy but in reality, it's often not. The assigned investigator in many workplaces is often an already overburdened employee to whom another time-consuming project is now assigned, often to their dismay. This investigator may have had little to no training in how to perform workplace investigations. Or they may have had training in the process of investigatory mechanics but never actually performed an investigation. One common challenge is struggling to gather information during witness interviews.In HR investiga...

Workplace Investigations - Witnesses Interview Strategies: Take Your Investigation Interviews Beyond the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of What Happened

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OVERVIEW Employersdo investigations every day . These fact findings generally entail conversations with employees so as to gather observations and determine facts.  Witness interviews are often especially challenging because many employees for a variety of reasons are reluctant to be involved and can be less than forthcoming. Friends of employees and those accused of an offense are often downright angry and vengeful. Investigations by their very nature tend to leave at the least some employee relations damage amongst employees. Some investigators, unable to gather information, turn to body language to make determinations of credibility. Not only can that approach be fraught with indefensible and challengeable findings, TV shows while entertaining, are not good training for interpreting body language. WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND This webinar will help investigators move through what often seems an investigatory maze. This webinar will cover employee investigations best pr...

Workplace Investigations - Witnesses Interview Strategies: Take Your Investigation Interviews Beyond the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of What Happened

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OVERVIEW Employers do investigations every day. These fact findings generally entail conversations with employees so as to gather observations and determine facts.  Witness interviews are often especially challenging because many employees for a variety of reasons are reluctant to be involved and can be less than forthcoming. Friends of employees and those accused of an offense are often downright angry and vengeful. Investigations by their very nature tend to leave at the least some employee relations damage amongst employees. Some investigators, unable to gather information, turn to body language to make determinations of credibility. Not only can that approach be fraught with indefensible and challengeable findings, TV shows while entertaining, are not good training for interpreting body language. employee investigations best practices WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND This webinar will help investigators move through what often seems an investigatory maze. This webinar ...