Overcoming Bullying and Harassment Training Course
Course Overview
Workplace bullying and harassment costs Australian organisations billions of dollars in penalties, lost productivity, and not to mention the million days that are lost due to stress and sick leave – all because employees are needlessly harassed and bullied in some workplaces.
Bullying or harassment in any form is destructive, leading to employees coming to work stressed and fearful – which affects physical and mental health, so for everyone’s sake, it needs to be stopped!
Our 3-hour Overcoming Bullying and Harassment Training Course in Melbourne is designed to increase the awareness and recognition of what harassment and bullying IS and ISN’T in the workplace, and how every employee has a role to play to stop it in its tracks.
The purpose of this short course is to explore how both managers and employees alike can build and create a healthier work culture and learn the most up-to-date, practical methods to proactively address the issues relating to bullying and harassment, including sexual and social media harassment.
Key Learning Outcomes
- Understand the costs to lives and organisations
- How bullying and harassment affects others
- Why perceptions about bullying can differ
- Defining bullying and harassment
- Identify types and examples of inappropriate workplace behaviours
- What bullying and harassment IS and ISN’T
- A guide to bullying, harassment and Australian (Commonwealth) and State laws
- Getting help internally (and externally if you feel you are being bullied or harassed)
- Your rights and legal redress
- What you can do to prevent bullying and harassment if others could see your words and behaviours as unacceptable behaviour (yelling, swearing, touching, social media comments, etc.)
- YOUR ROLE in saying something to prevent bullying and harassment at work (if you are an employee, team leader, victim or observer
Training Outline
2 Hours Session
- Understand the cost to lives and organisations
- How bullying and harassment affects others
- Defining bullying and harassment
Physical abuse
Micro-management
Yelling
Offensive language and threats
Isolation or exclusion
Harassment due to a person’s sexuality, religion, or other personal beliefs - What bullying isn’t
- Expressing differences of opinion (respectfully and courteously)
- Providing constructive and courteous feedback
- Counselling or advice about work-related behaviour or performance
- Following through on legitimate or reasonable management decisions or actions, in a reasonable way and with respect and courtesy
Allocating work to an employee
Setting reasonable goals, standards and deadlines
Not selecting an employee for promotion
Warning an employee about the consequences of unsatisfactory
performance - Complaining about a manager’s or other employee’s conduct, if the complaint is made properly and reasonably
- A guide to bullying, harassment and Australian (Commonwealth) and Victorian (State) law
- Getting help internally (and externally if you feel you are being bullied or harassed
- Your rights and legal redress
- What you can do to prevent bullying and harassment at work
Training Options
We realise every client is different. You may have only half a dozen people to train, or perhaps you’re running a conference and want a guest speaker or a trainer to undertake a high impact, short breakout session.
Whatever you have in mind, we want to help you achieve your training goals. Let’s start a conversation and find out what’s happening at your place and what you want your people to be able to do differently as a result of training. If you’re on a tight budget, we get that as well. Rest assured, we are good listeners, and we are here to help you achieve your outcomes.
- 1-day Training (7 hours)
- Half-Day Express (3 hours)
- Lunch & Learn (60 minutes)
- Online Training (Self-paced)
- One-on-One (Zoom) Coaching
