Sexual Harassment:  Trend or Turning Point

This highly touted classroom training course entitled Sexual Harassment:  Trend or Turning Point, covers important issues relating to sexual harassment and others forms of prohibited harassment pertaining to race, color, religion, national origin, disability, and age.

Real-Life Scenarios  

Trend or Turning Point present learners with real life scenarios that help them truly understand inappropriate conduct in today's business environment.  Course content is based on actual case law and real workplace incidents.

All State and Federal Standard Compliant  

The course is fully compliant with federal law and the laws of all 50 states.  It is also designed to meet or exceed every requirement under California's sexual harassment training law AB 1825, allowing employers to meet their ongoing, periodic requirement.

Interactive Exercises Reinforce Lessons  

Trend or Turning Point reinforces important lessons with a variety of interactive scenarios and skill-building activities.  The standard supervisor course has more than 30 interactive exercises ensuring supervisors receive the message and stay encouraged throughout the training.

Interactive Supervisor Training

Harbeck's interactive supervisor training provides your supervisors with immediate answers and solutions to a variety of harassment dilemmas.  Special emphasis is placed on limiting liability, modeling appropriate workplace behavior, creating a harassment-free environment, and handling complaints.

Fully Customizable

A wide range of customization options are available.  This course can be delivered as a classroom presentation, e-Learning course, Webinar, or one-on-one.  In addition, information and learning scenarios can be customized to depict your organization's culture. 

Detailed Course Description

Length 

Standard Recommended Employee Course:  90 Minutes
Standard Recommended Supervisor Course:  2 Hours

Overview of Key Employee Content

  • Defining workplace harassment and discrimination
  • Hostile environment
  • Quid Pro Quo
  • Same sex harassment
  • Fraternization & sexual harassment
  • Types of inappropriate conduct: 
    • written, verbal, physical, visual
  • Third-party harassment
  • Offsite conduct & conduct during non-working time
  • Bystander sexual harassment
  • Stereotyping and implicit bias
  • The reasonable person standard
  • Direct vs silent opposition
  • Informing the person that his/her behavior is unwanted
  • The duty to report

Overview of Key Supervisor/Manager Content

  • Includes all employee content from above
  • Manager's higher level of responsibility
  • The issue of "knowledge" in creating liability
  • What is meant by "knowledge"
  • The issue of who is responsible for work atmosphere
  • Landmark legal cases
  • The issue of "consent" vs "welcome"