What to expect:

Trainers involved in workplace harassment reaction and prevention will appreciate the depth and richness in this short online course, Workplace Harassment: What it is and What to do About it. This important course helps employers to meet their obligations in workplace harassment situations, and includes sessions on defining it, establishing workplace policies, the importance of managers’ support in an effective program, how to intervene, handling complaints, and more.

Note: these short courses are self-guided online courses and are not to be confused with our tutor-supported online courses.

You will be able to obtain a “certificate of completion” with your name and completion date on it.

 

There are 19 Lessons in this course:

1. Course Overview

2. Defining Harassment

• • What is Harassment?
  • Reasonable Man/Reasonable Woman

3. Defining Sexual Harassment

• • What is Sexual Harassment?
  • Is This Harassment?

4. The Purpose of Training

5. Creating a Harassment Policy

6. Other Prevention Strategies

7. Nipping it in the Bud

• • Your Role as a Manager
  • Making Connections

8. Protecting Yourself

9. What If It Happens to Me?

• • What Works and What Doesn’t?
  • Saying No

10. What If It’s Happening to Someone Else?

11. Someone Has Filed a Complaint Against Me!

12. Addressing a Complaint

13. Handling False Complaints

14. Mediation

• • Basics of Mediation
  • The Mediation Process

15. Investigating a Complaint

• • Setting up the Investigation
  • The Investigation Process
  • The Investigation Report

16. Making the Decision

17. Creating Solutions

18. After It’s Over

19. Skill Application

• • Stage 1
  • Stage 2
  • Stage 3
  • Stage 4
  • Recommended Reading List
  • Post-Course Assessment