Respectful Workplace & Harassment Prevention

A respectful workplace is not a mood, a poster, or a personality type. It is a conduct standard: a set of expectations about how people speak to each other, include each other, and use — or refuse to use — power over each other, which holds on good days and bad ones, in the office and on the screen, for the newest hire and the highest performer alike. This course teaches that standard plainly. You will learn what respect requires as conduct, not as feeling; where the line sits between rough, clumsy, or unwelcome behaviour and harassment, and why the receiver's experience — not the speaker's intention — is the test that decides; and how harassment actually appears in modern work: in words, on screens, and off the clock. You will work through the grey zone honestly — jokes, banter, and the defence that "we always talk like this" — and through the places conduct quietly goes wrong: where power changes the meaning of an invitation, where workplace relationships create consent, favouritism, and disclosure questions, and where retaliation after a report does its own separate damage. If conduct happens to you, you will learn your options, how to keep notes that help, and how to use the reporting routes your employer provides. If you see it happen to someone else, you will learn the bystander's part. Module 2 then speaks directly to managers: the higher bar that comes with the role, how to receive a report in the first five minutes, why you escalate rather than investigate, what confidentiality you can and cannot promise, how to watch the team afterward, how to correct low-level conduct early, where the guard slips — interviews, events, travel, remote work — and how to set a prevention standard your team can hold you to. The course works on real moments from your workplace throughout: bring them anonymized absolutely, and leave with judgment you can use the next time a moment arrives — which it will.