Choose a verification move when a colleague's answer deviates from baseline but does not yet prove deception.
The answer sounds cleaner than the underlying slide. Arun gives one rehearsed sentence about a revenue slide that usually gets a detailed explanation. What do you do next? Ask Arun to reconstruct the source, timestamp, and handoff for the slide before drawing a conclusion. Right. You treat the baseline deviation and verbal thinness as a cue cluster that deserves verification. The question elicits concrete memory and evidence without accusing. Call out the folded hands and avoided slide as proof that he is lying. Weak. This violates the no-single-tell rule and overreads body language. Nonverbal cues are faint, unreliable, and must…
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