Overview:
More than half of all workers have experienced sexual harassment on the job. The resulting cost to companies can be thousands or even millions-of dollars. This program provides practical guidelines to help organizations understand what sexual harassment is, how to handle it when it occurs, and how to avoid it in the first place.
Audience:
Managers or HR Professionals
Prerequisites
None.
Course duration:
Half day
Course outline:
1. What is sexual harassment?
- A legal definition
- Categories of sexual harassment
- You be the judge
2. What do you do about it?
- How to confront the harasser
- Handling negative reactions from the harasser
- Confrontation practice
- Confronting the harasser in writing
- Document the situation
- Dealing with retaliation
- Proving Retaliation
3. Conducting an investigation
- The investigator’s role
- The investigator’s responsibilities
- If you witness harassment
- If you hear about it
- Steps of an investigation
- Fact gathering
- Written report
- Resolution
4. If you’re the harasser/accused of being a harasser
5. Preventing sexual harassment
- Common sense
- Written policy
- Training
- Prevention checklist
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