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
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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
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“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
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“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
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“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” — John C. Maxwell Two weeks ago we talked about change and the need to remain open to it when it comes to investigative interviewing. We need to examine research for the best evidence-based practices and implement them to maximize our
Read more →“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
Read more →“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
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →If you are in the business of doing interviews in investigations, audits, inspections, compliance, or the human resources arena decision making is a foundational part of your profession. However, the skill-set of well-thought-out decisions based on empirical evidence seems to be waning. All too often we see
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