Course Catalog (1042 Courses)

Do your employees know the difference between unprofessional and illegal behavior and sexual harassment? Do they know how to handle borderline situations involving themselves or their coworkers? This video situation is a powerful tool to drive discussion, build awareness and prevent incidents of harassment in your organization.

Do your employees, staff and even management team understand that sexual harassment can take many forms? It can be verbal, as with jokes, comments, or propositions. It can be visual, as in written notes, cartoons, or objects. It can be electronic, as in e-mails, social media posts, and texts. And it can be physical, as with touching, gesturing, or leering and staring.

Social media is a powerful communication tool. Employees can (and do) post things that are best left unseen in the workplace. But what if co-workers begin viewing and discussing another employee's posts in the workplace? Inappropriate, unprofessional or illegal?

You have an employee complains to you that their raise was less than expected. What do you do? This course provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

An employee is coming to work in clothes that are inappropriate for the workplace. What do you do? This course provides the just-in-time information and tools needed to help a manager address the situation while maintaining a respectful workplace.

Slapping any employee on the butt is inappropriate workplace behavior and should not happen with any employee! Unwanted touching, swatting, rubbing or any other physical action of this type spells trouble in the workplace. It’s best to keep physical contact to a minimum and always on a professional level.

What do you do about an employee with body odor, bad breath, or who appears unclean? If it’s affecting how the employee works with co-workers or customers, you need to overcome embarrassment and address it. How do you work with an employee who has poor hygiene?

Biases are the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, perceptions and decisions. Going deeper, bias also refers to the persistent, harmful, and unequal treatment of someone based solely on some characteristic they possess or their apparent membership in or identification with a particular group. Stereotype is often defined as a generalized belief about a particular category of people. An example of a stereotype might be “All Asians are good at math.”

Being a manager or supervisor is a fulfilling role. But as you know, there are times where you’ll need to tackle tough situations. Let’s say an employee comes to you and complains that they’ve been discriminated against because of gender. What do you do? Creating a respectful and inclusive workplace is vital to the success of our organization.

Promising a promotion in return for sexual favors is illegal and may be grounds for a quid pro quo sexual harassment lawsuit. While managers and supervisors are held to a higher legal standard in sexual harassment cases, sexual harassment prevention is everyone’s responsibility. What it all comes down to is this - preventing sexual harassment is about recognizing what's going on around us and then making good decisions.