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Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Description:
Preventing sexual harassment is not just a compliance requirement, it's what determines whether people feel safe enough to do their best work. This course covers what harassment and discrimination actually look like in practice, the legal ground it sits on, and critically what to do about it from three different vantage points: as someone experiencing it, as a bystander who notices it happening to someone else, and as a supervisor responsible for preventing it and responding when it's reported.
Course objective:
This course aims to help participants recognise harassment and discrimination in its different forms, take the right action whether you are directly affected, a bystander, or the supervisor a complaint is raised with, and understand your legal position and protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who this is for:
- All employees, as part of mandatory workplace harassment-prevention training.
- Supervisors and managers, who carry added responsibility for prevention and for responding to complaints.
- HR professionals handling harassment complaints and investigations.
- New starters, as part of onboarding into a respectful workplace culture.
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Learning outcomes:
On completion you will be able to:
- Define harassment and discrimination, and recognise examples of each in a real workplace, using a self-assessment to check your own conduct.
- Explain what does and does not constitute sexual harassment, the relationships it can occur within Identify the four forms of sexual harassment; verbal, nonverbal, physical and visual, and why each is bad for business, and the consequences harassers face.
- Take appropriate action if you experience sexual harassment at work, including overcoming the fear of retaliation, documenting the behaviour, and steps for psychological recovery.
- Apply bystander intervention techniques, understanding why people hesitate to intervene and what practical action actually helps someone being targeted.
- Apply five supervisor-level strategies for preventing sexual harassment on your own team, and explain why managers are critical to leading that effort.
- Respond to a sexual harassment complaint raised by a team member in a way that is legal, professional and ethically responsible.
Course content:
Lesson 1 Understanding Harassment and Discrimination
What harassment and discrimination are, with examples of each behaviour type, followed by a self-assessment to check whether your conduct or that of others is supporting a safe and respectful workplace.
Lesson 2 What Is Sexual Harassment?
What
sexual harassment is and isn't, the types of relationships it can occur within,
and the two kinds of abuse made illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964, along with their psychological and professional impact.
Lesson 3 Four Forms of Sexual Harassment and Their Consequences
Examples of verbal, nonverbal, physical and visual sexual harassment, why these behaviours are bad for business, and the consequences harassers face including a self-assessment to build your own self-awareness.
Lesson 4 What to Do if You're Being Sexually Harassed at Work
How to
overcome the fear of retaliation including what retaliation looks like and why
you're protected against it and the practical steps to stop and document the
behaviour, plus tips for recovering psychologically.
Lesson 5 Bystander Intervention
An action plan for situations where you witness harassment: what bystander intervention is, the reasons people give for not intervening, and practical actions you can take to support the person being targeted.
Lesson 6 Preventing Sexual Harassment as a Supervisor
Why prevention is vital,
five practical strategies for addressing it, and why managers are critical to
leading that effort on their team.
Lesson 7 Recognising and Escalating Harassment (Supervisor Follow-Through)
Reinforcing the steps to take if harassment is reported to you or observed directly, including what to stop, document and escalate, and the psychological-recovery support you can point a team member toward.
Lesson 8 Responding to Sexual Harassment Complaints
What to do if a team member tells you they're experiencing sexual harassment, and how to handle the complaint in a way that is legal, professional and ethically responsible including the critical dos and don'ts
