Finding Out The Truth in Investigatory Interviews: Falsehoods, Deceptions, Omissions and Interference 2013

Key Topics

• Telling the difference between a witness’s selective memories vs. human forgetfulness
• How to tell the difference between misinterpreted recollections vs. purposeful distortion or even providing misinformation
• How to start an interview so most witnesses will be truthful and forthcoming from the beginning
• Finding out if the investigator didn’t ask an understandable, good question vs. a witness’s purposeful omission
• Getting to the bottom of inference and untangling the web of deception
• How to get to facts that were omitted whether purposefully or not
• Leave the TV shows out - The 5 best ways to tell if someone is lying to you
• The best defense is a good offense mindset – Interviewing those who disorder, complicate, blow up and back track
• How to ask good questions to get good answers

Who should Attend

• HR Generalists and HR Associates
• Employee Relations
• Those in non-HR jobs who have investigatory responsibilities