Weekly Edge: Interviewing
The Challenge of Change: Embracing Evidence-Based Techniques in Investigative Interviewing
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” — Winston Churchill Change. How do you feel about the subject of change? For me, the older I get the more difficult change is, but that doesn’t mean I won’t do it, not for change sake, but for improved performance. I seem to be in a season of
Listen to Learn: 9 Areas to Focus for Success
“If you’re not listening, you’re not learning.” — Lyndon B. Johnson Interviewing is so imperative to investigations, auditing, and so many areas of our professional lives. Interviewing is also a subject that garners a great deal of scientific research. Research shows that many areas of pseudo-science and folklore that have been a part of interviewing instruction need to be gone.
Interview-Less: Interviewing Traits You Must Avoid
“Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.” – Albert Einstein A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a list of qualities that we don’t want to see in our leaders. As I wrote it, I reflected on the similarities to the communication weaknesses that also plague interviewers. Much like in that post, we can learn so much from bad
Leader-Less: Leadership Traits You Must Avoid
A bad leader can take a good plan and destroy it, while a good leader can take a bad plan and make it work. – John C. Maxwell We often talk about the qualities of good leaders, but we can also learn so much from bad leaders. These lessons don’t only apply to leadership, think about their application in interviewing for
Weathering Life’s Storms: How Self-Care Helps You Overcome Adversity
“You can’t pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.” – Norm Kelly Dealing with adversity and moving beyond it by building resilience was my previous topic of discussion. One of the areas I struggled most with is the concept of self-care. Despite my difficulty, several good friends, including one in the comments on the last blog post, adamantly
Themes are Out: Ensuring Understanding to Gain the Truth
“Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.” W. Clement Stone I have been working on this blog for about a month now. It started as an easy task to be done in an evening, but we must always be self-reflective and have a questioning spirit. Was the way I learned about it the way