Creating Harassment Training

May 15, 2012

Soon we will be in the process of creating harassment training for our company.  As anyone created this from scratch or did you purchase the training?  I am all for creating a course, but how do you make sure you cover the legal issues?  Any advice or links on creating the course?  Thanks!

10 Replies
Natalia Mueller

Most companies have an HR specialist or related position that is familiar with the current laws. If not, they would likely know which direction to point you. Beyond that, most companies have their own stance on harassment beyond the black and white legalities. Even if it's just what to do /how to report harassment. You will definitely want to identify who has the authority to make those decisions (if they haven't already) and get their sign off on the content.

Once you know exactly what has to be covered, you can decide if a general click and read is sufficient to meet compliance standards or if you want to include scenarios to shed some light on gray areas that can get employees in trouble. 

Gina Hoekstra

Make sure you know where your employees are (which states) because different states have different requirements (California, Connecticut off the top of my head). One state required a 2 hour course for example. We decided to buy one (licenses) because for me alone to build a 2 hour training that met all the requirements for the states we are in, would have taken me a month or more to do with all my other normal work. We bought it through SkillSoft. It wasn't fancy, but served the purpose and go tthe point across. I would have preffered to build it, but honestly didn't have the time then to do so. I will probably start working on it soon too though because we want to put our managers and employees into student groups in the LMS and create Curriculums for them as New Hires and Ongoing development!

Rich Johnstun

This is one of the places that we outsource. If it's a legal compliance issue, we buy the training from someone who knows all the legal issues related for compliance and so on. I believe that on some of the courses, we are requried to buy things from certain vendors that are approved by our insurance goups (courses like ladder safety, defensive driving, HIPPA compliance, and so on)

We create all of our technical, systems, sales, leadership and associate development, etc. training in house.

Garry Hargreaves

Hi Brad,

Failing to get the covered effectively will leave you exposed in court.

Once you get the Legal issues sorted, how are you going to ensure when the legals requirements change, that these changes are reauthored and reflected in your course?  We have are legal department update us on any relevant changes. however, if you dont have the functioninside your organisation, and if you can afford it (like Rich said) as rules change get  get a briefing from an outsourced SME.

Cheers

Garry

Brad Meyerhoff

Hey guys and gals,

Thanks for the advice.  It is greatly appreciated.  We just brought in a compliance and legal team to make sure we cover the necessary areas.  This makes me feel much more comfortable when creating the training. 

Our next challenge is creating the training that matches our culture.  We have a very laid back culture and our executive team wants training to have the look and feel of our culture.  This can be fun.

Hey Karen,

We just created a short sexual harassment training covering different types of harassment and what to do if you feel you are a victim.  We are getting ready to roll it out in the next week or two.  We really enjoyed the Terry Tate Office Linebacker commercials.  We created our own "office linebacker" and shot videos of harassment to provide our employees examples.  It was fun to create, fits our culture and is an effective way to teach.

Has anyone tried a similar way to create training?  I would love to see more examples.

Thanks again for your advice.  This site has been a huge resource for me.

Brad

Raquelle Caras

Hi Everyone,

I know this is an old posting topic, but relevant to me now as I am creating a Sexual Harassment Supervisor training for our California employees to replace an old version we used from another vendor, which we no longer have a subscription for.  I am starting from ground zero.

Current law states the training requirement is 2 hours long.   I have SL1 and would like to purchase an inexpensive subscription to real sexual harassment images to create some interactivity.

Does anyone have any current examples to share or tips on how I can make this topic less boring?

Appreciate it!

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