Course Code: workharrasmentext
Duration: 5 hours
Prerequisites:

NA

Overview:

Overview

This interactive 5-hour harassment workshop provides a great opportunity to promote a culture of respect in your organization, put your company in legal compliance and create a defensible position against harassment claims.

Outcomes

  • Understand how workplace harassment impacts the workplace
  • Recognize Quid Pro Quo and Hostile Work Environment Harassment
  • Recognize the most common myths and misconceptions about workplace harassment
  • Hostile work environments based on protected classes other than sex
  • Learn how sexual harassment and other forms of workplace harassment is defined in court
  • Recognize and avoid inappropriate behavior
  • Handling inappropriate conduct
  • Bystander intervention
  • Following company policies on sexual harassment
  • Discussion and “question and answer” opportunity with a subject matter expert
Course Outline:
  • It's about respect
  • A brief review of the law
  • Know your organization’s guidelines/policy on appropriate workplace conduct
  • What is discriminatory workplace harassment?
  • What is gender-based harassment?
  • What is sexual harassment?
  • What are the two major categories of sexual harassment?
  • What is sexually harassing behavior?
  • What about abusive behavior and bullying?
    • Recognize it
    • Control it
  • What is acceptable behavior?
  • How to recognize and avoid inappropriate behavior
  • The Bystander Effect
  • Bystander intervention
    • How to intervene 
    • when not to intervene
    • Creating a "Speak Up" culture
  • Policy Guidelines
  • Treating other employees with respect
  • Practical tips to stop sexual and other forms of workplace harassment
    • What to do as a “first response” to inappropriate conduct
    • What to say
    • How to say it
    • Documentation
  • How to report sexual harassment or sexually harassing behavior
    • Internal complaint process
  • Legal recourse relating to sexual harassment
    • How and where to file a claim
  • The role of the supervisor or manager in controlling sexual harassment
  • Confidentiality issues
  • Protection against retaliation
    • What retaliation is
    • What is not retaliation
  • Know your organization’s guidelines on appropriate workplace conduct