ORBIT and EchoMind – working in partnership to support investigative interviewers
What’s better than a proven way to enhance your interview effectiveness? Two ways, combined.
ORBIT and OSACO Group are partnering to bring their combined strengths to investigative interviewers around the world by incorporating the principles of the ORBIT interviewing model into EchoMind, OSACO’s avatar-based investigative interview training platform.
Now, when you sign up to EchoMind, you will benefit from the proven success of ORBIT in developing more effective communication techniques.
Law enforcement personnel across the world already utilise ORBIT (Observing Rapport Based Interpersonal Techniques), which applies groundbreaking scientific research to create a comprehensive interviewing model, with proven real-world results. The principles of ORBIT were developed by Prof. Laurence Alison and Emily Alison, using a globally unique dataset and coding from thousands of hours of real-world interviews. The ORBIT approach has been proven to increase investigative yield, increase engagement, and reduce resistance in interview settings. ORBIT has been used to train thousands of officers worldwide from the FBI, CIA, UK Police, Military, Border Force and many other military and law enforcement agencies across Europe, North America and parts of Asia and Africa.
EchoMind offers interviewers of all skill levels the opportunity to learn, practice and embed effective interview techniques without being restricted solely to a classroom or limited by generic feedback. Through its online platform, interviewers access repeatable, realistic interview training scenarios containing avatar witnesses, suspects and victim/survivors. By repeating skills on a ‘little and often basis,’ receiving feedback specific to them and dialling up the interview complexity, interviewers learn the skills of effective interviewing.
Those skills now officially incorporate the principles of ORBIT, meaning that EchoMind can offer law enforcement, military and intelligence agencies, humanitarian organisations and private sector companies around the world an integrated opportunity to master more effective interviewing technique – anytime, anywhere.
Interested in learning more about how EchoMind and ORBIT can transform your interviewing techniques?
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