After viewing Program 1, and working through the printed support materials, participants should understand; what illegal harassment is and its impact at work; the need to support our co-workers in facing up to harassment; how to confront harassment to make it stop; how to defuse disrespectful or harassing situations; that not all harassment is intentional; that it’s the impact of our behavior that counts, not our intentions; the importance of setting appropriate boundaries.
Subjects: Legal Issues & Ethics
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Preventing Sexual Harassment
Looks at four common patterns of inappropriate behavior, the habitual harasser, the smitten harasser, the bully and the jilted harasser. How we respond to harassment will be most effective when we recognize why the behaviour is occurring. This program arms employees with information and insights to help them determine the best way to get the behaviour to stop. A series of dramatizations bring each pattern to life. Attorneys, human resource professionals and a troupe of exceptional actors take us through the legal, psychological, cultural and moral issues.
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Responding to Sexual Harassment
This is an extension of the first program in both style and content, and we recommend that managers view both parts of the series. Program 2 examines the legal liability issues and questions of personal responsibility that managers and supervisors must face. Using dramatizations, we explore different patterns of how managers often respond to sexual harassment incidents, including the ostrich, the chameleon, the wounded tiger and the mother hen and present more effective alternatives. Finally we discuss how incidents should be investigated and best resolved.
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Rights & Responsibilities
Program 3, is a brief introduction to the issue of sexual harassment prevention intended for new employees. This orientation program describes what sexual harassment is, how it is damaging to the person being harassed, the harasser, the workgroup and the organization, and what an employees rights and responsibilities are in this area.
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The Issue is Respect
The Issue is Respect, tackles complex issues. What one employee may consider sexual harassment, another may find perfectly acceptable. Both men and women can be and are victims of hostile work environments and subtle Quid Pro Quo behavior. The standards by which such behavior is measured are changing. Attorneys, psychologists, human resource professionals and a troupe of exceptional actors take us through the legal, psychological, cultural and moral issues.
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Management’s New Responsibilities
This program is an extension of the first program in both style and content. We examine the legal liability issues and questions of personal responsibility that managers and supervisors must face. We also explore how we can create a workplace free of sexual harassment, the elements of a good sexual harassment policy and how to handle complaints once they are received.
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Subtle Sexual Harassment Training Scenes
Subtle Sexual Harassment Training Scenes is intended to provide trainers, managers and employees with powerful tools that can stimulate discussion and promote behavioral changes around the issue of workplace sexual harassment. By presenting a wide range of sexual harassment incidents, the training scenes can encourage dialogue that will bring issues out into the open where they can be effectively addressed.
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Surviving the Slings & Arrows
Using the casting and rehearsal of a production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a backdrop, this program focuses on the skills needed to navigate the legal and behavioral challenges managers can face. After viewing participants should understand: Appropriate & effective hiring practices; EEO compliance issues; How to handle workplace harassment; Respectful termination procedures; Performance management fundamentals.
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To Lead or Not to Lead
This program developed for organizational leaders is divided into major concept themes, and each of the segments is tied together by an animated folktale. With this video, a distinguished collection of practitioners and researchers – leaders on change – join in conversation with CEO’s, managers, line workers and consultants. They share their vision of how we can most benefit from the turbulent process we find ourselves in.
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Focussing on Ability
Focussing on Ability, is an overview of the Title I provisions of the ADA. These are the sections of the law that impact the employment relationship between current and prospective employees with disabilities and their employers. A handout page of notes is included with the program.