What do I do to find a secure place to interview during a workplace investigation?
What do you do if you can’t find a secure place to interview people? You probably shouldn’t interview them. There could be situations where your interview is administrative, you’re trying to learn the process or something. But if people know that you’re the interviewer and they can see and hear what you’re doing, you probably […]
What do I do if I screw up an investigation during a workplace investigation?
https://youtu.be/Ikjy3ftrGLI What do you do if you screw up an investigation? I’d be lying if I said I’ve never screwed anything up. I don’t think I’ve ever screwed up a whole investigation, I’ve done some things that I’ve had to redo. And I think that’s just it, part of doing an investigation, part of doing […]
What do I do if the reporting party is a non-employee during a workplace investigation?
What do you do when the complaining party is not an employee? The same thing that you do anyway. So, you investigate those complaints because it doesn’t matter who makes the complaint. You as an employer are now on notice that you have a harasser, discriminator, or bad actor in your employment. And that is […]
What do I do to investigate pronoun use during a workplace investigation?
What do you do if your investigation involves the use of different pronouns? I’m recording this video in July of 2021 and hoping that this is the video that ages the worst because we make so much societal progress here. As an investigator, I think the first thing you do is to make sure that […]
What do I do about the quality of my investigation during a workplace investigation?
What can we do to ensure the quality of our investigations? So particularly when you’re in-house, and I suppose I’m speaking to somebody in a leadership role, but if you’ve got a team of investigators, who are making sure that your investigators are doing a good job? Even if those investigators have all of their […]
What do I do if I receive an admission during a workplace investigation?
What do you do if you receive an admission? Suppose you’re going into an accused interview and you have reason to suspect that you’re going to receive an admission and it’s about something that is, or the concrete, or rather likely to go to litigation. In that case, you might want to paper up your […]
What do I do about secret recordings during a workplace investigation?
What do you do if you suspect someone secretly recording your investigation? First, you should always assume that people are secretly recording your investigation. Every single one that you’ve ever done, you should assume it’s secretly being recorded. I also do this in my initial admonishments where I say, “Hey, I’m not recording this in […]
What do I do about slutshaming during a workplace investigation?
What do I do to investigate slut-shaming? So, it’s been my experience that people who are experiencing slut-shaming… First of all, you need to of course get the reporting party to define what they mean by that. But generally, the idea that somebody’s sexual activities are not in align with cultural expectations would be a […]
What do I do about recording interviews during a workplace investigation?
What do you do about recording your interviews? I do not, as a practice, record my interviews unless my client tells me that it is their practice to record interviews. Generally speaking, in the pre-pandemic era, a recording meant an audio recording; these days, we would do that with an iPhone. In the COVID era […]
What do I do if I really dislike the interviewee during a workplace investigation?
Okay. What do you do if you are interviewing somebody you genuinely dislike? That can be a natural thing. I’ve interviewed rapists, people who have said mean and nasty things about me or even to me. Those people are not the kind of people I tend to like, but at the end of the day, […]
