What Do I Do to Make Someone Comfortable in An Interview? Treaty Oak ELG, Workplace Investigation, Austin, Texas
How do you make somebody comfortable so they’ll open up to you in your investigative interviews? I think that that’s really an individual thing, but what I’ll say is that setting expectations about the interview helps make things comfortable. I know from my own personal style, I usually make a very mild self-deprecating joke. So, […]
What Do I Do About Taking Notes Workplace Investigation? Treaty Oak ELG, Austin, Texas, Natalie Lynch
What do I do about my investigative notes? I have a method that I use. I record the date at the top, the start and stop time of the call. I denote if the interview is over a platform like Zoom, otherwise, I might leave a spot blank if the interview was in-person or even […]
What Do I Do if My Investigation Is About Mansplaining? Treaty Oak ELG, Workplace Investigation, Austin, Texas
What do you do if someone is accused of mansplaining? Like anything, we have to start by defining what “mansplaining” means. We always think we know what it means, but how is a person who’s complaining using that term? Is the person who is mansplaining just engaged in that really annoying speech pattern of repeating everything […]
What Do I Do if I Make Someone Uncomfortable? Treaty Oak ELG, Workplace Investigation, Austin, Texas
What do you do if you make somebody uncomfortable? First of all, try super hard not to do that because you are affecting the quality of your investigation. But sometimes weird things come out of your mouth or unintentional comments come out. Things come out in ways you didn’t mean, and sometimes people get uncomfortable. […]