Leading a Workplace Free of Harassment and Discrimination
Instructed by:
Janelle Tarasewicz, Principal Consultant | Aperture EQ
Audience:
This program is relevant for both employees and supervisors, with a particular focus on organizational leaders.
Description:
This training prepares leaders to cultivate and maintain a workplace culture resistant to discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. In addition to discussing the basic principles and laws
guiding discrimination and harassment, this training will also discuss how our unconscious biases impact discriminatory behaviors. Participants will be equipped with the information and skills
that promote intervention and empathy, including how to prevent unlawful harassment and identify behaviors that are not acceptable in the workplace.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the science behind our hidden bias, so we can better understand how our attitudes and stereotypes are developed and how this process impacts discriminatory behaviors.
- Review societal and workplace culture and how it impacts what is perceived as acceptable behavior.
- Develop an understanding of microaggressions as forms of exclusion.
- Increase understanding of discrimination and harassment, as well as discuss its prevention.
- Review federal and state laws governing discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in the workplace.
- Understanding our role as leaders to foster an inclusive and respectful workplace.
Participant Expectations:
- Participants are expected to have video camera capabilities and must fully participate in small group breakouts and other group interactive activities using audio or chat features as instructed by the trainer.
- Participants must attend the entire training to receive attendance credit.
- Participants must register in advance to participate
- Cancellation is required at least two business days prior to the webinar
