Training duration (2 days and an optional 3rd day)
Strategic Interviewing in a Workplace Context
This two-day (plus optional third day) intensive training is designed for professionals working in organisations and who want to improve their interviewing skills. The training focusses on gathering pertinent and relevant information from subjects. The training will also pay significant attention to gathering information from resistant and semi-cooperative subjects.
Besides the practical skills, the participant will also get a better understanding of motivations behind specific behaviours as well as the psychological dynamics of a working relationship that can make the interview challenging.
On the first day the trainers will focus on the foundations of interviewing. The second day will continue with approaches and techniques for developing a working alliance with subjects as well as how to use relational dynamics to enhance the flow and efficiency of an interview and designing an interview plan.
There is an advisable opportunity to extend participation to a third day which will be dedicated to exploring the personal abilities of participants and how those abilities influence their interview success. The communication style of the interviewer and their personal challenges establishing productive operational bonds with subjects, will be engaged during the practical exercises.
Participants will receive extensive personal and constructive feedback while engaging in role-play exercises with professionally trained actors.
Who benefits from this training?
This training has been designed for people who engage in complex interviews and are required to gather information from demanding individuals.
The training will be valuable to:
- Legal professionals who deal with problematic behaviour and employee conflicts within their organisations
- Human Resource managers
- Threat assessment specialists and corporate risk / security managers
- Corporate investigators
- Compliance officers
Participants will develop essential foundational skills on how to conduct effective interviews without contaminating a subject’s account.
- Starting an interview
- Asking good questions
- Questioning framework
- Active listening
- Reaching informational objectives
- Summarising
Participants will learn how to establish and maintain a working alliance and use relational dynamics to enhance the flow and efficiency of an interview.
- Personality and psychological profiling
- Designing an interview plan
- Rapport and trust
- Understanding motivations
- Mitigating resistance
This day will focus on improving participants adaptability in an interview by focusing the role-playing exercises and constructive feedback to their individual challenges and frustrations.
- Professional development
- Adapting to unexpected situations
- Resilience to demanding behaviour
- Coping with own emotions and frustrations
Presenters
Bram Van der Meer and Simon Oleszkiewicz
Maximum participants
The group size will be limited to 15 participants.
Training duration
2 days and an optional 3rd day
Note. It is only possible to attend the third training day if the participant has completed the first two days.
Costs
Day 1 and 2: € 1290.00 excl. VAT.
Day 3 (optional): € 495,00 excl. VAT.
The price includes coffee & tea, lunch, course materials, a certificate and a closing drink on day 2
Dates
2026 dates will be announced soon
Location
The Hague, The Netherlands
