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WHY?

Picture this – you start a new job and within a week your boss starts making lewd comments to you in 1 on 1 meetings, touches you inappropriately and shouts at you. You put up with it for a while and hope it will go away. You have difficulty concentrating, sleeping, your appetite wanes and you start feeling a sense of dread about going to work. You eventually speak to HR and they say they will sort it out, but your boss’s behaviour does not change. You start taking days off work. Three months later you make a workers’ compensation claim after developing a psychiatric illness.

Bullying and harassment in Australian workplaces is a significant issue. It can adversely affect the health and safety of employees, reduce the productivity of individuals and workplaces, as well as substantially negatively impact an organisation’s financial performance, risk profile and cause reputational damage 39% of mental disorder claims are caused by harassment, bullying or exposure to violence; almost 20% of workers say they have experience discomfort due to sexual humour*. It has got to stop.

*Australian workplace barometer project 2014/2015

THE ESSENTIAL BULLYING & HARASSMENT TRAINING

Empowering Engagements delivers a compact and essential bullying and harassment training course every organisation should complete. It has been designed as a compliance module to:

∙ Upskill your workers to ensure they stay up-to-date with their legal duty and obligations under Australian law

∙ Equip staff with the knowledge and skills to better prevent, recognise and respond to occupational violence and aggression

∙ Mitigate your organisation’s risk such as preventing future legal claims.

∙ Improve the health and safety of your organisation’s workforce both at an individual and system capability level.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

∙ Describe what bullying is and what it is not

∙ Describe what discrimination, harassment including sexual harassment is

∙ List the impacts of workplace bullying and harassment

∙ Describe the Work Health Safety duties and legal responsibilities of individuals and the organisation

∙ Provide guidance and tools on how to deal with reports of inappropriate behaviour

∙ Outline the complaints procedure relevant to the organisation’s policies and procedures

∙ Model behaviours including respect that reduce the likelihood of work health safety risks occurring

∙ Build skills to recognise, respond and prevent occupational violence and aggression in the workplace through guided case study analysis

∙ Know where to get support

On completing this course, participants are able to:

TARGET AUDIENCE

Across the public and private sectors

∙ At all levels of an organization

∙ That are culturally diverse

The content contained in this course is suitable for employees:

HOW IS THE TRAINING DELIVERED?

∙ Didactic presentation using PowerPoint with graphics and video content

∙ Storytelling to demonstrate concepts in action

∙ Small and larger group discussion

∙ Self-reflection

∙ Guided analysis of case studies using published legal cases

∙ Role-play exercises emphasizing skills practise including development of coaching skills and giving and receiving feedback

∙ Development of personal action plan to embed learning

This 3-hour workshop, called “Working with Respect”, is delivered face-to-face at your business premises. Participants receive a “Participant workbook” containing learning materials and exercises to be completed during the workshop, as well as complete a “knowledge check” post training which can be loaded into your organisation’s online systems.

The “How” of the training delivery is underpinned by a blended learning approach emphasizing skills practise as well as increasing self-awareness and reflection, including:

For a customized quote, Go to:

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Enter your organization name and contact details and number of participants and we will provide a quote. Or call +61 423 690 552

BENEFITS TO THE ORGANIZATION

∙ Strengthen its safety leadership

∙ Minimize the likelihood of bullying, harassment and discrimination in the workplace

∙ Reduce the risk of being found vicariously liable for workplace bullying claims

∙ Deliver comprehensive and cost-effective

anti-bullying and harassment training to a wide range of workers

∙ Foster a healthy and safe workplace culture that doesn’t tolerate bullying and harassment

∙ Mitigate the risk of reputational damage due to bullying and harassment in the workplace.

By implementing this course your organisation can: