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Best Selling Sexual Harassment Prevention Video

You can't assume everyone has the same perception of what sexual harassment is. Nor can you afford to leave any doubts in your employees' minds! Eliminate sexual harassment in your organization by training your employees on what constitutes sexual harassment.

Sexual Harassment: Is It or Isn't It? is a series of 13 short dramatic sexual harassment scenes that take place in a realistic, manufacturing-based environment. Each situation--some subtle, others rather obvious--is followed by a short video break to allow for group discussion. By leading discussions about the short video vignettes, you can help your employees understand that even the most subtle form of sexual harassment is illegal.

This video will help you create a non-threatening work environment for your employees. By clearly communicating your organization's policies on sexual harassment, you can reinforce the message that sexual harassment will not be tolerated within your organization.

How To Training Points:

• How to define sexual harassment and offensive behavior that could be considered harassment
• How to spot the types of harassment likely to occur in the workplace
• How to discuss personal feelings about harassment and recognize that everyone has different perceptions of harassment
• How to take appropriate action against sexual harassment
• How to understand most recent Supreme Court rulings on sexual harassment in the workplace and how they affect you and your organization

Length: 21 minutes - download now!

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Create a workplace, harassment-free for all employees!

Your responsibility as a manager for protecting your organization from sexual harassment goes a lot further than avoiding lawsuits. By and large, your management position requires you to work at stopping sexual harassment before it even begins. This means, taking the responsibility for creating a work environment free from sexual harassing behavior, to the best of your ability. The extra steps you take as a manager now, may save the dignity, reduced productivity and other detrimental effects of an employee victimized by sexual harassmentalter, not to mention saving yourself from personal liability and your career as a manager, from damage. Thus, as a manager, you should be clear as to what sexual harassment is, how to recognize the two illegal types, who typical harassers are, rules about dating employees, using workplace humor and more, how to educate your employees about sexual harassment. Finally, managers need to how to stop sexual harassment if it does happen.

In this video, watch and see how some typical employee situations play out to be more than just typical workplace scenarios. By following the examples of the managers, or not following them, in this narrator-led video, you'll learn how to educate employees about questionable jokes, gestures and more. And you'll learn how to make sure employees and those working around them, for example other departmental work teams, avoid damaging sexual harassment behavior. Managers will learn that the first step in dealing with any type of harassment is to respond to it. Also, managers learn how to know that handling sexual harassment, means handling different types of harassers, such as vendors, customers, even important clients. Then managers are explained how to record a sexual harassment incident and coach employee through appropriate workplace behavior.

You'll Learn How To:

• Understand the legal definition of sexual harassment
• Identify the "typical" harasser and the signs that harassment maybe taking place
• Educate employees on subjects voice mail and potential sexual harassment
• Deal with an employee if you yourself have unintentionally offended them
• Handle harassment if the harasser is a customer
• Coach employees through recognizing simple sexual harassing behavior

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Define your key role and responsibility as a manager regarding sexual harassment situations and your employees.

Many managers are not aware of the critical role they play in preventing and stopping sexually harassing behavior within their organizations. However, it is a manager's legal responsibility to make reasonable attempts at preventing problematic behavior and stopping illegal conduct, especially sexual harassment, regardless if they were participants in the harassment or not.

To help managers identify their role and responsibility when dealing with sexual harassment, not just within their own “department” but throughout the entire organization, this video focuses on how the law defines sexual harassment and then provides managers with a four-step action plan for minimizing potential liability. By first learning what the courts have identified as the two types of sexual harassment,Quid Pro Quo and Hostile Environment, managers will learn to recognize each of these types of sexual harassment and their responsibility for preventing their occurrences in the workplace.

Managers who view this video and the short scenarios that dramatize many of the key points will then learn how liability is created for their employee when sexually harassing behavior causes adverse employment actions -- such as demotion, discharge, the kinds of actions that cause managers to take liability steps. The video focuses on these steps to help minimize liability:

1) practicing zero tolerance,
2) auditing attitudes and actions,
3) correcting misinterpreted actions and
4) documenting all efforts to educate employees about sexual harassment.

Next, in part two of the video, managers will learn their detailed role and responsibility for identifying, stopping and preventing sexual harassment. This includes using employee education, reviewing organizational policies and keeping current with sexual harassment laws. Further, it means looking for and resolving potential sexual harassment issues and avoiding retaliation coming from employees disciplined due to their sexually harassing behavior. The video concludes with a complete review of the concepts and actions presented.

You'll Learn How To:

• Follow a for-step manager's action plan to avoid potential liability
• Communicate zero tolerance and audit attitudes and actions
• Correct misinterpreted behavior in the workplace
• Take three direct actions to prevent sexual harassment
• Question employees about their work environment to pinpoint problems before they occur
• Recognize questionable situations in their early stages
• Avoid setting up yourself and your organization for retaliation

Length: 21 minutes - download now!

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Other Forms of Harassment and Discrimination (Employee Version)

A great deal of attention has been focused on sexual harassment, and businesses have made strides in preventing and effectively dealing with it through employee education and awareness. What you also need to know is that the law protects all employees from many forms of harassment that go beyond sexual harassment.

Beyond Sexual Harassment: Other Forms of Harassment and Discrimination (Employee Version) is a video-based training program designed to stimulate discussion about the non-sexual forms of harassment in the workplace, including religion, age, race, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability and retaliation. The video will provide employees with valuable tools to help eliminate the emotional and financial problem of harassment in the workplace.

Beyond Sexual Harassment’s eight stop-and-discuss video vignettes are designed to show employees what constitutes unprofessional, unacceptable or illegal behavior—and how to handle harassment when it does occur. Each vignette examines a harassment issue, followed by commentary from an employment law attorney who guides viewers through the legal implications of each scene. Whether employees are engaging in troublesome behavior or being harassed themselves, they need to know what their limits and their rights are. Everyone loses when harassment occurs. It affects productivity and lowers moral eat all levels of the organization. Everyone has the right to work in an environment free from harassment and to be evaluated solely on his or her work performance.

How To Training Points

• How to identify harassing behaviors
• How to understand the negative impact of harassment
• How to get involved and take action when harassment occurs

  Video Vignettes Include:

• Employees scrawl offending ethnic graffiti directed at a coworker—and a supervisor’s failure to act
• An employee is denied an employment opportunity based on a perceived disability (coworkers spread rumors that he has AIDS)
• Are a manager’s abusive comments about an elderly employee’s age and “being slow and behind the times” evidence of age bias?
• An office prankster creates a hostile environment for his coworkers
• Two employees willingly participate in taking personal jabs at each other—but the “kidding around” address race and national origin, two protected classes under the civil rights statutes
• A male employee stops a female employee from lifting a 50-lb. bag and makes stereotypical remarks, despite her insistence that she can handle the load
• A computer message contains religious viewpoints, offending an employee who doesn’t share the same religious perspective
• A woman’s working conditions deteriorate when coworkers retaliate after she files a harassment complaint.

Length: 15 minutes- download now!