Are We Ensuring Understanding or Assuming What We Heard?

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”  – Albert Einstein- Over the last several weeks we have discussed active listening and critical thinking as it relates to interviewing and life in general.  Both of these are imperative to quality interviewing and must be ever-present to ensure

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Critical Thinking’s Essential Role in Interview Planning

We talked three weeks ago about the need for active listening, the lack being one of the stumbling blocks to effective interviews.  We must hone those active listening skills. Then I addressed critical thinking last week but wanted to address critical thinking’s extreme importance to interview planning.

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4 Ways Introverts Can Enjoy More Social Confidence

“Believe you can, and you are halfway there.” -Theodore Roosevelt- How does interviewing and introverts work?  Well, to be completely candid, I’m and introvert.  I talk about this in every class especially as we get to the subject of rapport.  Most people doubt it because I do

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I Hope I’m Not being Bias About Biases

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” -Mark Twain- I don’t know about you, but early on in my career the subject of bias was rarely if ever discussed.  Now, I hear about

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7 Ways to Turn Worry into Excitement to Get More Things Done

“The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of Fear.” -Barbara Brown Taylor- Everybody worries sometimes. Right now, you’ve probably even got a few worries on your mind. You might be thinking about a relationship or a situation at work, causing

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4 Ways You Can Overcome Self-Doubt

Inaction breeds doubt and fear.  Action breeds confidence and courage. -Dale Carnegie- Another opportunity is here to present a topic that is essential in the field of investigating, auditing, and definitely interviewing.  Any topic I address is targeted at our work life, but the applicability of this

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How to Minimize Bad Decisions

When it comes to the business of investigations, auditing, compliance, inspections and human resources, decisions are a consistent part or our work experience whether in the rank and file or in leadership positions.  Honing the ability to make good ones is essential.  Part of that is minimizing

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What Is A Decision?

There are those that contend, that in its simplest form, life is a series of choices. This is certainly, in some sense, true. Except that it’s not that simple, because life itself is not that simple. The complexity of life or, rather, living a life, means that

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