Investigate with confidence
A workshop from 10to3 to super-charge your investigating skills.
By attending this blended learning programme, your managers will be able to:
- Identify the issues to be explored in the investigation efficiently and with confidence
- Plan a balanced and proportionate investigation to gather in and evaluate all the reasonably-available evidence
- Conduct an investigation interview that is thorough, respectful and calm
- Evaluate the evidence, reach conclusions and make recommendations that are objective and evidence-backed.
Pre workshop activity
Watch Deciding your Remit, Planning your Investigation and Structuring your Interviews
The workshop:
| 9:30 | Introductions and welcome.
Small group discussion: What’s stood out from the pre-workshop activity? |
| 10 | As an investigator, what’s my role?
Group exercise to confirm understanding of the role of the investigator and identify desired learning points from the workshop |
| 10:30 | Starting with the end in mind!
Plenary discussion: What’s the purpose of each section of your template report? |
| 11 | Introduction to the case study:
Card sort exercise – Pairs discussion sort the evidence available so far using the 3-part technique from Deciding your remit |
| 11:30 | Planning your investigation
Group exercise to plan the investigation using the matrix tool from Planning your investigation |
| 12:30 | Preparing your questions – getting away from a list!
Individual exercise to plan the themes of the questions for the interviewees using the technique in Killer questions |
| 13 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | Investigation atmosphere: how you open and close your interview matters!
Plenary discussion reflecting on the key learning points from Planning your interviews. |
| 14 | Practice makes perfect!
Exercise to conduct interview(s) as a team – so team members can choose how to role play according to their learning style. Feedback using the structure in Killer questions. |
| 15 | Evaluating the evidence and reaching conclusions
Pairs exercise to applying the learning from Is there a case to answer? to reach conclusions in the case study. |
| 15:30 | Selecting your recommendations
Small group exercise to select recommendations based on the case study and incorporate them in to your template report. |
| 16 | Final steps
Plenary discussion: What happens next? |
| 16:30 | Key learning points and post workshop steps |
| 17 | Close |
Post workshop activity
Watch Killer questions and Is there a case to answer?