W-Z VIDEO: Acknowledge Social Distancing and the Witness in Telephone Interviewing
If you need to conduct an integrity issue over the phone in today’s environment, you should start by reminding your subject of CDC recommendations.
W-Z Video: When to Use a Telephone Interview
There are a lot of different things to take into consideration when you are considering using a phone or video interview versus face to face. Here are some things to consider.
W-Z Video: Preparing for After the Interview
If you think about after the interview, you have to worry about termination hearings, unemployment hearings. You have to worry about the defense if you’re doing a criminal case. You have to worry about any other area where they may try to attack the investigation. Let’s talk about that.
W-Z Video: The Importance of Instructions to Witnesses
Most instructions to witnesses in an interview may seem pretty straight forward, simple to understand, and easy to comply with. But it never hurts to take the time to explain why these instructions are so important and why their conduct during the conversation can have such a big impact on the ultimate outcome of the conversation.
W-Z Video: The Impact of Word Choice in an Interview
Being aware and cognizant of the words we use, and how they can impact the person across from us is vitally important during the course of an investigative interview because we never want to send the wrong message, but we also don't want to make it a much more difficult conversation than it needs to be.
W-Z Video: Questions about Interview Laws and Policies
Three different questions have come up recently in our seminars related to interviewing: confidentiality, interviewing juveniles or minors, and recording the conversation. Here is...
WZ Video: Focus on the Person, Not the Act, by Showing Understanding
Today we're going discuss the importance of focusing on the person sitting across from us, not the actual situation or act that brought them to the interview room. WZ's method focuses on establishing credibility while also showing understanding, but it's showing understanding that a lot of people can have difficulty with.
W-Z Video: Challenging Evidence in the Interview
I'm Dave Thompson, CFI and today I want to talk about the importance of challenging your evidence during the investigation before you ever conduct...
W-Z Video: 18 Steps as Muscle Memory
Not every time we sit down to talk to someone are we necessarily going to use the W-Z method. But when we do, we should be prepared to talk through every step of the W-Z method, which means all 18.
W-Z Video: Risks of Leaving Interview Subjects Or Witnesses Alone
I'm Dave Thompson with the Wicklander-Zulawski, and today I want to talk about the risks of leaving your subject alone in the interview room. When I say subject, that means it could be the suspect or implicated person, a witness, or even the victim or complainant of some type of crime, fraud, or employee relations issue.