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Return to Training Schedule Level II – Practical Application Workshop
| Location: | TBA - Houston, TX, Venue To Be Determined, Houston, TX |
| Dates: | January 24, 2025 |
| Times: | 8 AM – 4:30 PM |
The Practical Applications Workshop is designed for those who have completed the WZ Level I – Investigative Interviewing Techniques or WZ Level I – Workplace Investigative Interviewing Strategies within the last two (2) years to apply knowledge, skills, and abilities acquired to real-world practical problems. It is comprised of a single, complex continuing case scenario. Participants will conduct the exercise investigation from the initial complaint to its full conclusion and disposition.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
- Evaluate a complex real-world misconduct complaint from a fictitious business operation based on an actual case and company. Use this analysis to create an interview strategy for the parties involved in the allegation and choose the appropriate interview method.
- Use rapport-based interpersonal communications skills to develop an interview approach that is conversational in nature and non-accusatory. Then share ideas and notions about the power of various rapport options.
- Create properly structured, effective empathy statements that preserve intent, project empathy, and avoid personalization.
- Plan and conduct a challenging interview using the Participatory Interview Method. Demonstrate the ability to use a strategic approach to interviewing, meet resistance effectively and use evidence in a logical, non-confrontational manner.
- Create powerful introductory statements and assessment questions primarily through the application of the Wicklander-Zulawski Interview Method.
- Draft an investigation summary providing all required information for use by organization decision-makers.
Jason Adams, CFI
Jason Adams, CFI, is an instructor with Wicklander-Zulawski & Associates, Inc. (WZ). Jason retired from the United States Army as a Chief Warrant Officer, where he spent the last 13 years of his 22-year career as a Counterintelligence Special Agent. After his military service, Jason served with the Sumter, SC, Police Department as a Field Training Officer for two years before accepting a position with Walmart as an Asset Protection Manager for multiple stores in the central-South Carolina area. Jason now resides in his home state of Texas, where he owns and operates a private investigations company. Jason earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice Administration and an undergraduate certificate in Advanced Cyber Security from the University of Phoenix.
Jason has accumulated over 20 years of investigative experience. During his military tenure, Jason planned, conducted, and supervised strategic and tactical-level counterespionage and counter-terrorism investigations and operations worldwide. His experience has included joint investigations with the Federal Bureau of Investigations, US national-level intelligence agencies, local law enforcement agencies, as well as intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the world. Following his military service, Jason continued his investigative career through law enforcement, where he focused on investigating criminal matters. Later, Jason became involved in private-sector investigations ranging from large-dollar employee theft to worker’s compensation claims to contractor fraud.
Jason has also served extensively as an instructor for investigation operations in the military, public, and private sectors. Jason’s experience includes instructing numerous iterations US intelligence collectors, law-enforcement officers, private investigators, and loss prevention personnel on the full investigative cycle from intake to interviewing to court testimony.
Location: TBA - Houston, TX, Venue To Be Determined, Houston, TX
