Some people say it is often better to be lucky than good. My opinion is, let's leave that to golf and NOT when conducting investigative interviews or criminal interrogations! A true professional, someone who needs to gather reliable facts and information from other people, will prepare, train and hone their skills throughout their careers. In my mind, and in the mind of those with the same philosophy of training, "luck" favors people who have invested the time and money in themselves, who have prepared and who have trained and who have honed their skills. Another thing I hear often is that you can't mix business with pleasure. Again, I disagree. The business of training is a serious thing. However, if you engage the right people in the right environment you can make the training not only valuable and effective, but also FUN! Case in point is The Lie Boat training cruise which has 18 hours of intense training with like-minded professionals on a cruise ship, which in 2016 is docking on the Island of Bermuda! Now THAT is combining business with pleasure. I hope to see you improving and honing your skills on board The Lie Boat in 2016!

I have seen a lot of "body language experts" market themselves very effectively within the media. They are highly paid consultants who train companies and organizations, conduct keynote speeches and dazzle people at sales conferences, and even train agents within the federal alphabet soup (FBI, CIA, DOD, DHS, etc...). But as it turns out, many of them may be more experts on marketing than on body language. For me, a true expert should be someone who has done what they are teaching, not simply studied or read about it and reorganized the material into their own courses. I know that most dictionaries define an expert as "a person who has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area." My belief is that within the definition of expert the "or" should be change to "and", and that their skill should be tested in the real world, with real people and with real lives and consequences on the line. When hiring someone as a consultant or trainer for your company or agency, or if you bring them in for a keynote presentation, make sure they have the background of doing what they plan on teaching or assisting you with if you want real results.

If you conduct investigations and interviews, and have to make assessments on the veracity of the information you get from people, block out your schedule for April 10th - 15th, 2016 and join like-minded professionals on The Lie Boat! 

The Lie Boat! is a professional training program focused on improving the investigative interviewing and assessment skills of people like you...people who conduct interviews and interrogations for a living and need to get it right!

The Lie Boat! course is held on a cruise ship...this time it's going from Baltimore, MD to Bermuda, and will include 18 hours of intense training...balanced by 24 hours of free time in Bermuda and all the evening fun and excitement on the cruise ship! The courses for this training cruise are:

• ACID Assessment Criteria Indicative of Deception
• Deception Detection and Non-Verbal Communication
• Cognitive Interviewing; Training & Workshop
• Understanding Psychopathy & the Psychopathic Mind
• Interviewing the Psychopathic Personality

For additional course and registration information go to www.thelieboat.com