To determine truthfulness in workplace investigations, many people rely on “gut instinct” and inaccurate stereotypes about how liars behave. Instead, you should use questioning strategies that researchers have found make it difficult for liars to maintain their deception. In this presentation, you will learn how to ask witnesses to (1) provide a free narrative, (2) draw the event they described, (3) tell their story in reverse order, (4) answer relevant but unexpected questions, and (5) answer questions related to time, space, or the five senses. You’ll learn how use of these questioning strategies will greatly improve your ability to determine who is being truthful, even in “he said/she said” cases.
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Michael Wade Johnson, Esq.
Chief Strategy Officer
Traliant
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Former U.S. Department of Justice attorney Michael Johnson has trained thousands of people on skills for detecting signs of deception and truthfulness, including presenting at dozens of conferences for human resource professionals and other busines executives.
He has spoken at numerous conferences around the world for HR, legal, law enforcement, and other professionals. He has provided numerous client-specific sessions for international organizations such as the United Nations (in New York, Congo, and Sierra Leone) and the World Bank, government agencies such as the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Social Security Administration, and dozens of Fortune 500 companies such as Google and Northrup Grumman.
As an attorney with the US Department of Justice, Michael was the lead attorney on one of DOJ’s first “pattern or practice” sexual harassment cases. Michael has served as an expert witness in cases challenging the adequacy of employer’s investigation procedures.
He is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Law School.