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What Do I Do After I Write the Report?

What do you do after you write your written reports? You get it edited. I’ve heard some people say things like, “Nothing goes out our door unless it’s been thoroughly reviewed by six sets of eyes.” I think mine’s closer to four sets of eyes. But it does get pretty

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What Do I Do After Interviewing the Reporting Party Interview?

What do you do after you talked to the reporting party? Generally, I checked in with my client contacts, confirmed to them that that interview did happen, and let them know any updates about scope. So, if the reporting party’s concern was misreported to you, through the process of getting

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What Do You Do if Someone Calls You After the Interview?

What do you do if somebody calls you after their interview? If it’s the day or two after the interview and not a year later, I generally take those calls willingly. As investigators, most of the time, if we’ve done our jobs right, people don’t know that they are coming

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What Do You Do After the Last Interview?

What do you do after your last interview? Probably your last interview was your accused. Sometimes you may have to circle around with somebody and do a second interview, but generally speaking, your last interview is your accused. You need to be running towards having results for your client, right?

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What Do You Do to Admonish the Accused?

What do you do to let your accused individual know that they are the accused in your investigation? I’ve talked about in other interviews, how I am very careful, never to bring other interviews into a current interview. And that includes the reporting party’s interview into the accused interview. And

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What Do You Do to Admonish Interviewees?

What do I do to admonish an interviewee? My admonishments include introducing my law firm, introducing myself, introducing who I am, my role in this process. I generally will talk about the methods of investigation that are possible. I do that in part so that I can make the point

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What Do You Do if Someone Brings up Additional Allegations?

What do you do if someone makes additional allegations during one of your interviews? This can happen either when you are interviewing the reporting party or one of the other witnesses along the way. And it partially depends on the client, in part how well you know the client. For

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What Do I Do About Investigating Pronouns?

What do you do if you have an investigation about pronoun use? So I’m recording this in July of 2021 and I hope very much that this is the recording that becomes out of date the quickest. So, if you’re doing an investigation about pronouns, you should do some research

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What Do I Do if I Am Investigating a Traumatic Event?

What do you do if you are investigating something really traumatic? Unfortunately, as workplace investigators, we occasionally have to investigate some really awful stuff. People get killed at work. People get raped at work. Some truly awful things happen at work and workplace investigators get called into some of that

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What Do I Do if Someone Is Abusive During an Interview?

What do you do if someone is being abusive to you during an interview? This has come up with me on phone interviews and also in person interviews. At the end of the day, you are not being paid to be abused. That being said, the nature of workplace investigations

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