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Investigators & HR

Modern interviewing for investigators and HR, built on what the research supports.

Interviewing has become a real science over the last twenty years, and most teams were never taught it. This program trains investigators, compliance teams and HR professionals in the methods that replaced the old interrogation habits, including rapport that gets people talking, questioning that holds up later, and an honest view of what behavior can and can't tell you.

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Chris Michael on stage teaching science-based interviewing to a large audience
The Deliverables

What your team
walks away with.

The science-based interviewing canon: ORBIT rapport, the HEEAAR principles, PEACE, and the Cognitive Interview, taught as working method
Strategic Use of Evidence: sequencing what you know so accounts can be tested instead of contaminated
Credibility judgments that hold up: what the research supports, what it has debunked, and why a nervous person is not the same as a lying one
Baselines and clusters: structured behavioral observation instead of gut instinct
Interviews that survive review: lawful, ethical, defensible practice aligned with the modern evidence base

The full research foundation for this program is public: our 45-page Science-Based Interviewing field guide is free to download. Read the science before you hire anyone, including us.

Inside the Training

What we cover,
and why it works.

01
The paradigm shift
Confession-driven interrogation produced false confessions and lost information. Your team learns why the field moved to information gathering, and what that changes in practice.
02
Rapport that works: ORBIT and HEEAAR
Real rapport is more than small talk. We train the ORBIT model and the HEEAAR principles, which research has shown get more information from people who did not want to talk in the first place.
03
Structured accounts: PEACE and the Cognitive Interview
Letting someone tell the whole story in their own words gets you more than firing questions at them. Your team learns to plan, open and probe an account using the frameworks federal and international agencies now teach.
04
Strategic Use of Evidence
When to reveal what you know, and in what order, so inconsistencies surface and truthful accounts can be verified. The SUE technique, applied to your case types.
05
Deception: what the science says
Most deception folklore fails under testing, and people are close to chance at spotting lies from behavior alone. We cover the few cues with real support, the myths to drop, and why the strongest signals live in what people say, not how they move.
06
Live demonstration and applied practice
Chris demonstrates behavioral reads live with volunteers from your team, then runs applied interview scenarios built from your investigation contexts.
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The training answered all our expectations. Immediately applicable for our HR activities: it will help us detect micro-expressions on the faces of our clients and candidates. The course material was professional and complete.
Guissou Nabavi
Training & Development Manager · Mercuri Urval
★★★★★
54%
Average accuracy at spotting lies across 206 studies. This program starts where that number ends.
Let's Meet

Let's talk about
your investigations team.

Send over a few details and Chris will get back to you personally within one business day. It is a real conversation about whether this training is a good fit for your team, and if it isn't, he will tell you.

Chris Michael
You'll be meeting with Chris himself.He reads every request and replies personally.
What you get from the meeting
  • A real conversation about the conversations your team finds hardest, whether that's sales calls, negotiations, interviews or meetings
  • A couple of ideas your team can start using right away, whether or not you ever work with us
  • If it looks like a good fit, a clear plan and price for training within 48 hours
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