COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

This course is designed to provide participants an understanding of the universal principles of excellent investigation on how to identify issues, plan an investigation, conduct thorough witness interviews, deal with whistleblowers, gather, organize and review physical, digital and documentary evidence. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the fundamentals of investigation covering the eight principles of investigation, assessment tool, quality of investigation and procedural fairness; planning and roading map an investigation; determine what and where the evidence is and set timelines; performing investigative interviewing, deal with witnesses and assess credibility; the six fundamentals of interviewing and the twelve stages of an interview; the common problems that arise with witnesses and how to deal with them and how to record interviews; the tips, tricks and roadblocks, whistleblowers 101 and ethical approaches to interviewing; the documentation and dealing with digital evidence; assessing evidence and writing an effective report; and demonstrating workplace investigations.