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What Do You Do If You Stumble Across Some Unrelated, Bad Information?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What do you do if you stumble across some unrelated, bad information? You tell the client, for sure. You document that you told the client, for sure. As a business practice, you make sure the client understands the
What Do You Do When You Have a Union in Your Workplace?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What do you do when you have a union in your workplace? You better know what you’re doing. So, if people are in a union, they have a union contract, and they also have rights protected by the
What Do I Do to Explain the Triggers of an Investigation?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What do I do to explain the triggers of an investigation? Even as a third party external investigator, it’s important that I be able to identify what should trigger an investigation. Not every client is completely sophisticated about
What Do You Do If You Are Concerned About the Nature of the Underlying Claim, the Series of Facts, the Incident Being So Complicated that You Can’t Investigate It?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What do you do if you are concerned about the nature of the underlying claim, the series of facts, the incident being so complicated that you can’t investigate it? I think step one is reminding yourself: you wouldn’t
What Do You Do If Your Investigation Requires Really Specialized Knowledge?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What do you do if your investigation requires really specialized knowledge? Most of the workplace investigations that are done are around Title Seven, Title Nine policy type issues. And it’s a lot of human activity analysis –
What Do You Do If the Person You’re Talking to is Just Mortified by the Subject Matter, It’s Just Too Embarrassing?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What do you do if the person you’re talking to is just mortified by the subject matter, it’s just too embarrassing? Sometimes, this comes up with incidents that involve sexuality – a lot of times. But it could
What Do I Do to Pick a Tone of Speech to Use with Somebody?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What do I do to pick a tone of speech to use with somebody? It really depends what they need, but we don’t… We can be empathetic, but we can’t be therapeutic. We can be stern, but we
How Do You Maintain Investigative Confidentiality When the Nature of the Questions You’re Asking Basically Tells People What You’re Investigating?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. How do you maintain investigative confidentiality when the nature of the questions you’re asking basically tells people what you’re investigating? I think this is a little bit less of an issue than it used to be, because people
What Do I Do if Things Get Confusing During a Workplace Investigation?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What do I do if there is so much going on in an investigation that facts are getting jumbled in my head? I’m above average intelligence, or else I wouldn’t be an attorney. I’m sure you are, too.
What Do I Do to Investigate the Way Someone Eats During a Workplace Investigation?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What do you do with an investigation about the way somebody is eating? So again, another tricky one. Obviously, we’re going to collect our information from our reporting party and see what it is about this eating that’s
What Do I Do If the Investigation Is a He Said, She Said During a Workplace Investigation?
Natalie Lynch is your credentialed investigator and licensed attorney, not a vlogger. What do you do when there are no witnesses or when there’s he said, she said? That’s hard. Parts of that you may or may not be able to determine. It’s just the nature of there not being
What Do I Do If the Client Tries to Control the Investigation During a Workplace Investigation?
What do you do when the client tries to control your investigation? You needed to remind the client that the money they’re spending is related to a neutral, independent, third-party investigation. That being said, some people are just micromanagers by nature, and that may include your client representative. And so
