Interview and Interrogation Training: The Agitated Interviewer

July 2, 2018 | Wicklander-Zulawski and Associates | | Employee Theft

This week’s International Association of Interviewers interview and interrogation training tip from the archives has Dave Thompson, CFI, discussing the effect of an interviewer becoming agitated or aggravated during an interview or interrogation.   Read More

Interview and Interrogation Training: Rationalize the Motive, Not the Act

June 25, 2018 | Wicklander-Zulawski and Associates | | Employee Theft

In this week’s WZ / IAI interview and interrogation training tip—one of the most popular in the archives—Dave Thompson, CFI, details discussing rationalization with the subjects, and the content of such rationalization.   Read More

Interview and Interrogation Training: Using the Participatory Approach

May 3, 2018 | Wicklander-Zulawski and Associates | | Employee Theft

The participatory approach is specifically used when there’s circumstantial evidence or that there’s a possibility that your subject might have an excuse, an explanation, so some type of alibi that may or may not be true.   Read More

EyeOnLP: RILA Retail Asset Protection Conference 2018 Video Recap — Day 2

May 2, 2018 | EyeOnLP Contributor | | Loss Prevention

The EyeOnLP team was again on the scene for the hustle and bustle of Day 2 at the RILA Retail Asset Protection conference 2018.   Read More

EyeOnLP: RILA Retail Asset Protection Conference 2018 Video Recap — Day 1

May 1, 2018 | EyeOnLP Contributor | | Loss Prevention

This week, the LP Magazine team is at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, FL, for the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) Retail Asset Protection Conference 2018. On Day 1, EyeOnLP was there to capture the action.   Read More

Interview and Interrogation Training: Identifying the Appropriate Rationalization

April 26, 2018 | Wicklander-Zulawski and Associates | | Employee Theft

When we rationalize with a subject, what we do is allow the subject to save face. We show understanding by realizing that sometimes good people make bad decisions because of outside pressures.   Read More

Interview and Interrogation Training: Why Victims Don’t Report

April 9, 2018 | Wicklander-Zulawski and Associates | | Employee Theft

Here’s one unfortunate reason: “If I work in a building with 500 people, surely somebody else will say something. It doesn’t have to be me.”   Read More

Interview and Interrogation Training: The Legality of Interviewing

April 2, 2018 | Wicklander-Zulawski and Associates | | Employee Theft

If you’re unfamiliar with any of these laws, or how your company or organization handles them, now would be a great time to visit that with your legal team or your human resources team to make sure everybody’s on the same page.   Read More

Interview and Interrogation Training: The HR Investigation and Collaboration

March 26, 2018 | Wicklander-Zulawski and Associates | | Employee Theft

We need to be collaborating with those business partners who are tasked with some of the most difficult investigations: those dealing with harassment, violence, or hostility in the workplace.   Read More

Interview and Interrogation Training: Telling a Personal Story

March 19, 2018 | Wicklander-Zulawski and Associates | | Employee Theft

This week’s International Association of Interviewers interview and interrogation training tip provided by Wicklander-Zulawski, has Chris Norris, CFI, director of WZ Europe and International Training, talking about the use of personal stories when conducting interviews and rationalizing with individuals.

When it comes to rationalizing, the first thing to remember is that   Read More