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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...

Webinar on Writing Solid, Objective, Professional Investigative Reports – Training Doyens

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OVERVIEW Anyone who performs workplace investigations needs to be able to write the findings in a report such that it becomes a written presentation of the information discovered in their investigation. Join our upcoming webinar to be presented by Teri Morning to get some insider’s knowledge about how to write a factual, solid, representative report of an internal investigation that will withstand scrutiny and provide appropriate information to decision makers.   Webinar Highlights ·          Gathering, using and safeguarding investigatory documentation ·          Investigative report structure ·          What should be included in a report and as importantly - what should not LEARNING OBJECTIVES Learn how to write a factual, solid, representative report of an internal investigation that will withstand scrutiny and provide appropriate i...

Workplace Investigations: Writing Solid, Objective, Professional and Effective Investigative Reports.

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OVERVIEW There is a multitude of laws and situations that require employers perform internal investigations to uncover facts and demonstrate they’ve met compliance obligations. A good HR investigation report factually represents all facets of such an investigation and shows an employer took appropriate investigatory steps and made good decisions based on the information they discovered. Investigative report writing’s purpose is to report investigatory findings to its reader. Without a good investigatory report, it may be difficult to show a quality investigation took place even if it did! Even worse, from a bad report, poor decisions can be made based on its faulty representation of information. WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND Anyone who performs workplace investigations needs to be able to write their findings in a report such that it becomes a written presentation of the information discovered in their investigation.  It’s imperative the report that is used to document and ...

Investigating a complaint in the workplace

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OVERVIEW The importance of taking a complaint seriously – offering whatever help Is necessary and recognizing that the person being accused has the right to due process.  We all operate from our own biases, and it is important to know what they are so we can get out of our own way to conduct an investigation in theworkplace WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND Learning about some of the most common problems in the workplace and strategies for handling them; useful not only in the workplace, but in all aspects of life. Get tips on investigating workplace complaints. In addition, learning about common biases will enable you to better understand your own responses to situations in your life. AREAS COVERED Examples of complaints, summary of laws pertaining to harassment and discrimination and how to conduct proper investigations.  Also,learn aboutconducting workplace investigations and common biases we all experience. LEARNING OBJECTIVES In this course you will first be given ex...