Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
Signs Your Office Could Benefit from Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
- Exceeds all employer training requirements for New York & New York City harassment prevention laws
- Formal or informal harassment complaints have been made
- Insensitive comments or potentially offensive situations have been observed
- Workplace communication & behavior has become too informal and could benefit from proactive sexual harassment prevention training
- Productivity has decreased because of an uncomfortable or harassing work environment
- The “old boy” network needs to update communication and behavior styles
- Managers don’t know the working definitions of harassment and diversity training
- Managers don’t know what constitutes an “uncomfortable or hostile work environment”
- Managers need to understand when and how humor can go too far in the workplace
- Managers are asking some potentially dangerous questions in the hiring process
- Employees and managers may not follow company anti-harassment policies
- CA AB 1825 sexual harassment training requirements need to be met
- Employees and managers have not received sexual harassment prevention training
Training Solutions:
- Build stronger working relationships through increased understanding fromsexual harassment prevention training
- Improve productivity by providing a more comfortable working climate with sexual harassment prevention training
- Communicate more professionally and effectively with co-workers
- Reduce the instances of being misunderstood or misrepresented
- Reduce the exposure to employment and labor law claims by documenting sexual harassment prevention training
- Deal with cultural, generational, religious and other differences more sensitively
- Learn communication skills that can eradicate harassment and discrimination before it begins
- Sensitize employee awareness to colleague perceptions and perspectives through a sexual harassment prevention training
- Address the most common causes of harassment and disrespect
- Increase the employee’s understanding of their responsibilities and expectations of behavior
- Identify and avoid risky work place conduct
- Reinforce your company’s anti-harassment and discrimination policies
- Meet and document CA AB 1825 sexual harassment prevention training requirements
Sexual Harassment PreventionTraining Course Outline:
I. Understand and reinforce the need for sexual harassment training
- Sexual harassment fact and figures
- Recent important court cases
- Identify the importance of sexual harassment training
- Develop and present course goals and objectives
- Participate in a sexual harassment IQ quiz
- Identify when and why the employer may be liable
- Understand where and why the individual supervisor may be liable
II. Identify and legally define discrimination and harassment
- Define and explain sexual discrimination
- Define and explain sexual harassment
- Define and explain pregnancy discrimination
- Define and explain quid pro quo sexual harassment
- Define and explain hostile environment harassment
- Participate in an exercise to identify 10 different patterns of harassment
III. Prevent harassment and discrimination
- Communicate and review company anti-harassment policies and procedures
- Learn the steps necessary to establish the correct workplace environment
- Learn how to legally and safely investigate sexual harassment complaints
- Learn what is required to protect against retaliation for filing a sexual harassment complaint
- Identifying where the employer may be liable
IV. Understand different gender and cultural communication methods
- Identify and examine differences in Content, Style and Structure
- Compare & contrast the strengths/weaknesses of different communication methods
- See how humor can be perceived differently
- Overcoming the most common stereotypes
- Environmental differences between genders
V. Active and respectful communication skills
- Active listening
- Words and phrases that appear disrespectful
- Courteous and respectful words and phrases proper for business communication
- Courteous and respectful behavior in office and business settings
VI. Case study application, course review and examination
- Participate and correctly resolve 3 real-life sexual harassment case study applications
- Participate in a comprehensive course review
- Complete a comprehensive preventing sexual harassment examination