Rubin Thomlinson Workplace Training and Consulting Inc. offers real-to-life training for HR professionals, managers, and internal counsel in workplace investigations and workplace human rights.
Serious insight for serious situations.
Serious insight for serious situations.
Our Training
Advanced Investigation Techniques Certificate
We can help you handle problematic behaviour before it poisons your workplace.
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Who should you believe? This course is for anyone who has investigated allegations but struggled to make a finding. Learn about the science of lie detection, which approaches work and which don’t, and valuable tools to assist you in making decisions. Investigators will leave confident in making difficult credibility decisions. Participants will be provided with comprehensive materials explaining these concepts and tools to better support them in their investigative practice.
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If a complaint of workplace harassment is made, do you know how to respond, investigate, and report on it — legally and correctly? If you don’t, you are not alone. This 3-day course is a crucial primer for today’s climate. Investigate mock complaints (inspired by our work across the country) from start to finish, build your investigation skills, and learn how to avoid costly pitfalls. The third day focuses on mastering report writing.
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If someone at your organization says they’ve been sexually harassed or sexually assaulted, how should you investigate and establish the facts? These complaints can be uniquely challenging for internal investigators — but are more common than ever before. This hands-on, advanced-level training is a must for any frontline staff who may respond to and/or investigate such complaints. Internal investigators leave confident and prepared.
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In recent years, employees have increasingly identified concerns of systemic discrimination in their workplaces, related to race, gender, disability, and other protected grounds contained in human rights legislation across the country. For employers, it can be difficult to know where to start in terms of investigating and addressing these concerns. This course will provide participants with an understanding of key concepts relating to systemic discrimination and human rights protections and more.
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Many employees are afraid to report misconduct or harassment to their employers. These bottled-up issues can quietly poison a workplace, and even explode. Workplace assessments are a proactive way of discovering whether there are problems in your organization, instead of waiting for them to come out. In this workshop, learn the right questions and techniques, and how to analyze and act on the results.
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Our workplace investigation training programs can be brought to your organization, and tailored to your workplace or institution's specific challenges and training needs. This is often a very efficient, cost-effective way for multiple individuals to receive training and standardize their investigative processes. Offering sessions in-house also allows you to mix-and-match elements from any of the courses in our curriculum.
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Interviewing witnesses can be the toughest part of an investigation. In this workshop, learn crucial skills: building rapport, formulating the right questions,dealing with difficult witnesses (such as the hostile witness, the gossipy witness and the reluctant witness), handling interruptions from relatives, lawyers, etc, and more.
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What do you do when your investigation takes an unexpected turn? Have you struggled with how to proceed when the normal steps don’t seem to apply? In this advanced course, we tackle the complexities that can complicate an otherwise traditional investigation. This course includes in-depth discussion of handling anonymous complaints, counter-complaints, complaints of reprisal, and more!
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In this advanced course, we take the learning about writing reports to the next level. Building on the teaching in our Basic course, we review specific aspects of report-writing in more detail, including preparing allegations, summarizing the investigative process and writing more effective findings. This highly practical course will include individual and group written exercises, all designed to give participants enhanced tools to elevate the readability of their reports.
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If a student at your institution makes a report of sexual misconduct, how should you investigate and establish the facts? These complaints can be uniquely challenging for internal investigators — but are more common than ever before. This hands-on, advanced-level training is a must for any frontline staff who may respond to and/or investigate such complaints. Internal investigators will leave confident and prepared.
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Complementary Webinars
We recognize that people are at home and trying to find ways to stay connected and up to date on current issues. We want you to have the tools you need to maintain a safe, healthy, and effective workplace environment.
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