You Said What?

Sexual harassment includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature if these behaviors affect an individual’s employment or work environment.  In this workshop, participants will be presented with a variety of circumstances to analyze, discuss, and determine whether the conduct is offensive and whether steps should be taken.

Participants will:

• Learn the legal definitions of sexual harassment
• Analyze situations possibly containing sexual harassment
• Have the opportunity to discuss your organizations policies on sexual harassment and its reporting procedures
• Realize that they are empowered to report sexual harassment
• Learn to recognize potential sexual harassment situations
• Understand the legal (and other) consequences of allowing sexual harassment to occur and/or continue
• Understand his/her role and responsibility in creating a work environment free of sexual harassment
• Know how to report and investigate all sexual harassment complaints based on your organizations policies

Format:  2-5 hours