Creating and maintaining a healthy and respectful workplace requires everyone working together. In this course, you will watch your way through a series of short courses that will help you determine what discrimination and harassment in the workplace looks like, what to do if you experience it, and how to prevent it from happening in the first place. If you’re in a leadership role, the courses you’ve been asked to take will also address your specific responsibilities for preventing and maintaining a harassment-free workplace. This interactive training is a web-based, modular approach and simple to distribute company-wide. Featuring realistic video scenarios, knowledge checks and practical information, your company is sure to maintain a harassment-free, Respectful Workplace environment.

Course Result:

Creating and maintaining a healthy and respectful workplace requires everyone working together. Watch your way through a series of short courses that will help you determine what discrimination and harassment in the workplace looks like, what to do if you experience it, and how to prevent it from happening in the first place.

Course Duration:

2:30 minutes

In this course, you will learn to recognize what is considered sexual harassment, how to prevent it from happening and the steps to take if you see or experience sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is the most common type of workplace harassment. When coworkers all treat each other with respect, the instances of sexual harassment will become very rare, as they should be.

Course Result:

Learn how to create a respectful workplace by recognizing what is considered sexual harassment, how to prevent it from happening and the steps to take if you see or experience sexual harassment.

Course Duration:

12:45 minutes

In this course, you will learn about the difficult, yet important, issue of discrimination in the workplace. After completing this course, you will be able to identify workplace discrimination, learn about the common protected classes by law, understand what makes behavior discriminatory and distinguish between illegal discrimination and abusive conduct (bullying). Understanding workplace discrimination gives you the background you need to be a positive force for workplace respect.

Course Result:

Learn about workplace discrimination, including what it is, who is protected and how to identify it, gives you the background you need to be a positive force for workplace respect.

Course Duration:

12:00 minutes

In this course, you will learn how to react effectively when you witness harassment, when are harassed or if someone feels that you are harassing them. Specifically, you'll be able to understand how to ask the offender to stop, how to apologize and to report a problem of harassment. Creating a respectful workplace depends on all employees doing their very best to treat coworkers well.

Course Result:

Learn how to tell someone to stop harassing you, how to respond if someone asks you to stop behaving in a certain way, and how to seek assistance by reporting the behavior.

Course Duration:

9:30 minutes

In this course, you will learn how to make positive actions to support workplace civility and respect. Specifically, you'll learn what actions to proactively champion civility, ways to be kind and respectful to everyone, how to take on bad behavior when no one else appears bothered by it and how to come to the aide of someone who is being harassed (bystander).

Course Result:

Learn how to make positive actions to support workplace civility and respect, including bystander intervention.

Course Duration:

13:30 minutes

In this course, you will learn, as a manager, how to set high expectations for your team’s conduct. Understand the leadership role you have in preventing harassment and doing what you can to proactively create a healthy workplace culture, built on respect.

Course Result:

Learn about and understand the leadership role you have in preventing harassment and doing what you can to proactively create a healthy workplace culture, built on respect.

Course Duration:

10 minutes

In this course, you will learn, as a manager, how to effectively listen to an employee’s concerns. Specifically, you'll learn how to handle an employee complaint, know who to involve in the complaint process, understand how to treat issues of confidentiality and know that retaliation is prohibited.

Course Result:

Learn how to effectively listen to an employee’s concerns and ensure you handle all workplace complaints with skill and professionalism.

Course Duration:

13.5 minutes

In this course, you will learn, as a manager, how to properly investigate claims and take appropriate action. After becoming aware of harassment; the company has an obligation to investigate, draw conclusions, and take appropriate action that resolves the problem. Managers should investigate a harassment claim, evaluate their findings, follow through with corrective action, monitor and follow up to ensure resolution.

Course Result:

Learn about what you should do after becoming aware of harassment. The company has an obligation to investigate, draw conclusions, and take appropriate action that resolves the problem.

Course Duration:

12 minutes

In this course, you will learn, as a manager, how to collaboratively develop a set of respect norms for your group. Specifically, you’ll learn how to draw out concerns from your team, discuss those concerns, build and refine proposed respect norms and build an agreement to support the norms.

Course Result:

Learn how to collaboratively develop a set of respect norms for your group, reinforce behavior that supports the norms and intervene when more work needs to be done.

Course Duration:

12 minutes

In this course, you will learn, as a manager, how to have effective one-on-one conversations about respect. Specifically, how to recognize when a conversation is an appropriate intervention, how to set goals for a coaching conversation, how to respectfully convey concerns and suggestions and how to skillfully tackle objections and defensive responses.

Course Result:

Learn how to have effective one-on-one conversations about respect, including how to skillfully tackle objections and defensive responses.

Course Duration:

15 minutes

In this course, you will learn about and meet the requirements of Connecticut's mandatory harassment training requirement. Specifically, what the federal law states, CT state specific definitions and protected classes, reporting resources with contact information and remedies.

Course Result:

Learn about and meet the requirements of Connecticut's mandatory harassment training requirements.

Course Duration:

9 minutes

This course is to be applied at the end of all courses for a quick acknowledgement to imply your understanding of the course material presented.

Course Result:

Congratulations on completing a series of courses in The Respectful Workplace course. This course is a quick acknowledgement to imply your understanding of the course material presented.

Course Duration:

2 minutes