Tag: loss prevention investigator

It's amazing how witty we are when it's twenty seconds too late. But when we're in that room and people are uncomfortable, we need to anticipate both emphatic and explanatory denials, handle them properly, and return to rationalization.

In this week’s Wicklander-Zulawski / International Association of Interviewers interview and interrogation training tip, Brett Ward, CFI, divisional vice president for client relations and business development for WZ, kicks off a four-part series on the investigatory interview process.

In the last few years, it seems that more and more organizations are conducting interviews remotely, whether that means over the phone or with the use of some type of videoconferencing tool.

This week’s International Association of Interviewers interview and interrogation training tip from the archives, provided by Wicklander-Zulawski, has Wayne Hoover, CFI discussing the SWOT analysis of the interview process.

Challenge yourself to make sure that you go into every investigation without a bias and with a clear intention to look for the truth.

It's amazing how often a really great interview plays such an essential role in closing out an organized retail crime case.

Whether you're in loss prevention, asset protection, human resources, audit compliance, or even law enforcement: when it comes to being a good business partner or good member of the community, you have to think about your role outside the scope of your normal job.

When I say "perspective," what I'm really trying to talk about is how I might view a situation versus how you may view a situation, versus somebody else, versus the way a situation actually occurred.

The subject may state something like, “I wouldn’t have taken that money because I love my job.” How do you handle that type of denial?