What do I do about an interviewee trying to read my notes during a workplace investigation?
How do you make sure that nobody is reading your notes? I still take handwritten notes during some in-person interviews because the clicking and the screen are deterrents to building rapport. That said, I don’t want people to see what I’m focusing on while writing notes. If you use two spiral notebooks and take your […]
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What do you do if you are called upon to interview old-fashioned bullying? One of the things about being a workplace investigator is that you should not be the judge and the jury, right? You are the investigator; theoretically, being a neutral third-party investigator is inconsistent with you being the one to make determinations about […]
What do I do if an interviewee is not taking the investigation seriously during a workplace investigation?
What do you do if somebody is not taking your investigation seriously? That’s sort of not on you unless you’re the reason that they’re not taking it seriously. Sometimes I’ll make a joke or … especially a self-deprecating joke about the investigation to kind of build rapport, to sort of break the ice. But, if […]
