These blogs are clearly written for the interviewing, investigations, inspection, and audit communities, but I hope you all see applicability across the board. They would help in sales, in teaching, in community service, and even in leadership, God forbid. Beyond that, work is but a slice of our lives impact, so really, I want them to also improve relationships and
Last week we talked about evidence-based practices and examined the issue of influence vs. persuasion in our interviews. Today we will look at creativity and the necessity to develop and employ it to be successful in our interactions. Much like the last two weeks, I ask you to do another New Year’s self-assessment to identify whether changes are necessary to
Last week we talked about evidence-based practices to conduct more effective interviews, and I asked you to do a New Year’s self-assessment to identify changes necessary to your repertoire. Did you, do it??? Hmmm? Well, guess what? More self-assessment today on our use of persuasion vs influence and what that looks like. And just to be clear. I write these
Happy New Year to my readers here. 2025 is upon us and this is my first blog of the New Year. With each new year we often make resolutions which statistics say are normally broken by the second Friday of January, known as Quitters Day. Regardless, I am going to challenge you in this blog to make some changes, not
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”— Mother Teresa The last two weeks we examined the use of words in the interview room, both by the interviewer and interviewee. We looked at the importance of active listening to that person sitting across from us. Part of that need to “listen” is our responsibility to fully
“By words we learn thoughts, and by thoughts we learn life.”—Jean Baptiste Girard Last week we looked at our need to be evidence-based in our approach to interviewing. This would mandate stepping away from a non-verbal emphasis on detecting deception to a greater focus on verbal deception detection. But in that realm of words, we also must be cognizant of