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Sexual Harassment

• Sexual Harassment Statistics: Why Your Company Shouldn’t Ignore This Problem: In this article, we delve into data related to the who, what, where, and how behind sexual harassment and share ways to effectively investigate and prevent it in your workplace.
• Guide to Workplace Sexual Harassment [INFOGRAPHIC]: This helpful infographic shares more sexual harassment stats, plus actionable tips to keep it out of your organization.
• Sexual Harassment in the Modern Workplace: This guide is designed to help you navigate the sexual harassment risks that come with a more laid-back, casual work environment. You’ll also learn how you might be enabling employees to mistreat each other and how to stop harassment in its tracks.
• Sexual Harassment Against Men in the Workplace: Men can be the victims of sexual harassment, too. Read this article to learn how harassment can differ for men and how to stop it.
• Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment: What You Need to Know: Quid pro quo sexual harassment can look a bit like bribery, but it’s often subtler. Learn how to recognize, investigate, and prevent it to protect your employees and your organization in this article.
• Virtual Sexual Harassment: What It Is and How to Stop It in the Workplace: Just because your employees work remotely doesn’t mean they can’t become victims of sexual harassment. Read our article to learn the signs, plus investigation and prevention tips.
• How to Conduct a Comprehensive Sexual Harassment Investigation at Work: We’ve compiled expert tips for gathering evidence, interviewing, and more to ensure your sexual harassment investigations are fair, timely, and compassionate. Read them now.
• Sexual Harassment Training: 9 Steps to a Safer Workplace: Gone are the days of playing a video once and checking off a “Sexual Harassment Training” box. In this article, we share nine ways organizations can implement effective sexual harassment training to foster a safe environment for their employees and customers.
• Workplace Sexual Harassment Training Video: Use this free sexual harassment training video to learn the strategies necessary to investigate and prevent sexual harassment the right way.
• How to Write a Sexual Harassment Policy: Read our step-by-step guide to learn the seven key sections of an effective sexual harassment policy, plus tips for distributing and enforcing the policy to your employees.
• Test Your IQ: Workplace Sexual Harassment Quiz: How much do you know about workplace sexual harassment? Test your knowledge and get helpful tips with our quiz.
• How (Not) to Handle a Sexual Harassment Complaint: In this article, we share five things that could make a sexual harassment situation worse, putting the victim, the accused, and your company at risk.

Harassment Types

• 11 Types of Workplace Harassment (and How to Stop Them): Our guide outlines 11 types of common workplace harassment and how they could intersect, plus expert tips on preventing these incidents.
• Defining Workplace Harassment: Know the Types: What qualifies as harassment? What can it look like? We explain the basics in this quick guide.
• Power Harassment in the Workplace: Power harassment involves an employee wielding their position or physical size over another in the workplace. Read this article to learn the signs and how to address it step by step.
• How Do the World’s Most Ethical Companies Prevent Harassment?: Theoretical best practices are great, but you can learn even more about preventing harassment by adopting policies and procedures used by The World’s Most Ethical Companies. Read their best tips here.
• The Key Ingredient for Preventing Harassment and Bullying in the Workplace: Looking to implement a harassment-free workplace culture? Learn the secret ingredient in this article.
• Investigating Digital Harassment in the Workplace: Email and messaging systems like Slack and Teams make it easier than ever for bullies to harass their victims without ever interacting in person. This article explains how to investigate this type of harassment effectively.
• 3 Reasons You Need to Include Stalking in Your Harassment Policy: While it may be subtler than some other forms of harassment, stalking is still an unwelcome behavior that you should prevent in your workplace. Learn why and how to do so in our article.
• Is it Harassment or Just Questionable Behavior in the Workplace?: Unfortunately, in cases of alleged harassment, the lines aren’t always clear. Read this article to clarify behaviors that legally qualify as workplace harassment.

Harassment Investigation and Prevention

• How to Handle Harassment Complaints in the Workplace: In this article, you’ll learn how to develop and implement a strong complaint management procedure to help your organization address harassment claims properly and avoid further ones.
• Is Your Harassment Training Effective? Here’s How to Know: If you designed your harassment training just to fulfill a legal or regulatory requirement, it probably puts your employees to sleep. Here’s how to create engaging, effective harassment training modules for your workforce.
• The Complete Guide to Workplace Harassment Investigations: Read our step-by-step guide to investigating a harassment allegation to ensure fairness, consistency, and a timely resolution.
• Addressing Fear of Retaliation in Workplace Harassment Investigations: Supporting whistleblowers protects not just the reporter, but also your organization and other employees. Learn why you should have a zero-tolerance approach to retaliation of harassment victims in this article.
• Are Workplace Harassment Investigations Different From Other Investigations?: While every workplace investigation follows the same basic steps, harassment sometimes requires a more sensitive approach. Read our article to learn how to achieve this.

Downloadable Resources

• Conducting Effective Harassment Investigations with Case Management Software eBook: One software tool can help you track and manage harassment investigations and report on results. Learn more in our eBook.
• Sexual Harassment Complaint Form Template: When an employee reports sexual harassment, your company has a legal and ethical responsibility to record the complaint, investigate the allegation, and resolve it quickly. Capture the details using our free sexual harassment complaint form template (download here).
• Sexual Harassment Policy Template: Make sure employees know what behaviors aren’t allowed, how to report them, and the details of your investigation procedure in a sexual harassment policy. Get started by using our free template.
• 10 Tips for Better Sexual Harassment Investigations: Sexual harassment complaints are among the most difficult workplace misconduct allegations to investigate. Download our cheat sheet to get best practice tips to help your team with the process.
• Harassment Training Checklist: Have You Covered Everything?: Download our checklist to ensure your employee training program is detailed, sensitive, and focused on real-life scenarios, not dry theory.
• 5 Steps to Prevent Workplace Sexual Harassment Cheat Sheet: Preventing harassment, rather than responding when incidents occur, helps employees feel safer and happier. Learn how to implement anti-harassment strategies in this cheat sheet.
• 11 Types of Harassment Cheat Sheet: Download this cheat sheet to learn the most common forms of workplace harassment.
• Workplace Harassment Cheat Sheet: In this cheat sheet, you’ll learn the basics of workplace harassment, including a harassment definition, information on protected classes, warning signs of harassment, and how to prevent harassment.

Webinars

• Investigating Sexual Harassment: Join Allison West as she outlines the critical steps that need to take place when investigating sexual harassment and how to avoid common mistakes.
• Best Practices for Conducting Sexual Harassment Investigations: In this webinar, Angela J. Reddock-Wright, employment attorney, mediator, arbitrator, investigator, and trainer outlines the elements of a well conducted sexual harassment investigation.
• Investigating and Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: Join employment lawyer Janette Levey Frisch in this webinar as she outlines the appropriate actions to take when you receive a sexual harassment complaint and how to be proactive in preventing harassment in your workplace.
• Investigating Harassment Claims: What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do: Watch this webinar with Meric Bloch, Principal at Winter Investigations, to learn the elements of a successful harassment investigation.
• Building Effective Sexual Harassment Prevention Policies and Training: Join Philip Miles, employment lawyer at McQuaide Blasko, as he outlines the steps for building policies and training plans to prevent sexual harassment in your workplace.
• Hybrid Workplace Harassment: Are You Protecting Your Employees and Your Company from Hidden Threats?: In this webinar, workplace investigation and executive management expert Kenneth McCarthy outlines how to reduce harassment incidents in your hybrid workplace with a culture of openness, willingness to learn, and compassion.
• Preventing Harassment and Bullying Through Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace: Companies that embrace diversity and inclusion not only outperform those that don’t, but foster an understanding, accepting culture ensures a fairer, more collaborative environment with less conflict. Catherine Mattice explains more in this webinar.