HR Besties: Investigations 101 - Best Practices
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today's agenda:
- Going undercover
- Cringe corporate speak: ducks in a row
- Hot topic: All things investigations
- Why are investigations tough?
- Keeping the language more human
- How can we improve investigations?
- Don't fall for misinformation
- Questions/Comments
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| 0:00.0 | Now, we have joked in previous episodes how when we started in HR, we had no idea of some of the shit. |
| 0:16.0 | We were going to have to see, pun intended, shit, literal figurative shit, right? |
| 0:23.2 | Oh, gosh, we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into or the things we'd see |
| 0:28.0 | because these are things, a lot of things that people do not talk about. |
| 0:31.4 | Have you ever done some like hardcore investigation where you felt like you were doing spy shit. |
| 0:38.8 | Hell yeah. |
| 0:40.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.7 | Okay. |
| 0:42.5 | Yep. |
| 0:43.5 | So I had a mission impossible type of experience, like doing something as an HR |
| 0:48.9 | exec. |
| 0:49.9 | I never thought I would do, right? |
| 0:52.6 | So I can talk about this. I'm just letting you know, legal. I'm looking at |
| 0:57.7 | legal here, the person with a legal background. I can talk about this, although, of course, |
| 1:02.1 | you know, I'll protect people. But I had the experience where I was supporting a CEO who |
| 1:09.4 | unfortunately was suffering with alcoholism and substance abuse, right, |
| 1:16.9 | in the workplace. And so many people, myself included, had suspicions that he was drinking |
| 1:23.0 | at work. But that is such a hard thing to prove. It really is, right? I mean, because here's the |
| 1:31.7 | head guy and there's nobody else. You're on an island, you know, I mean, and how do you move |
| 1:39.8 | forward with that, you know? How do you begin to investigate something like that? It takes a lot of |
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