Building a Culture of Professional Development

Building a Culture of Professional Development and Retention A career conducting government investigations is a challenging one, and if you aren’t moving forward, you’re moving backwards. Technology constantly enables new methods to commit and conceal corruption,...

Cultivating and Leading a Successful Investigative Team

The most efficient teams have a common understanding of their goals and an environment where success is achieved and recognized. Click or tap the image below to see an infographic highlighting five ways to create that environment.

Keeping Morale High When Everyone Hates Your Team

Agency Investigator – A Lonely Job The goal of investigators is to make life easier for the vast majority of honest staff in any agency, but people are nervous around them nonetheless. Because your office is charged with investigating the agency you are a part...

Turning Recommendations Into Results

Why are great suggestions ignored? Among the biggest benefits an investigative office provides to both agencies and taxpayers are the list of recommendations they include in their findings. Some of these recommendations are monetary recommendations, while others are...

High-Performing Teams

Investigators face a difficult task. For each case they investigate, there’s always more evidence that could be pursued, more facts that could be gathered, or more people who could provide information about a suspect or a situation. At the same time, investigators...

How Investigative Teams Demonstrate Value

Demonstrating the Value of Your Investigative Team Government agencies across the country, and certainly in the federal government, are finding themselves in extremely tumultuous times. The competition for funding and resources can be brutal and uncertainty seems to...