Designed for employees based in or doing business in Canada, Preventing Harassment & Discrimination: Canada helps employees learn skills to build a healthy workplace culture.
Course Description
This course prepares learners to cultivate and maintain a workplace culture resistant to discrimination, harassment and retaliation. Employees will be equipped with the information and skills that promote intervention, empathy, and allyship. This version includes extended content for a deeper exploration of identity and allyship, and complies with Connecticut regulation.
Preventing Harassment & Discrimination for Non-Supervisors Extended is part of the Preventing Harassment & Discrimination Suite.
Learning Objectives
- Raise awareness and bystander intervention skills addressing harassment, discrimination, and retaliation
- Guidance on how to appropriately respond and report
- How to use the appropriate actions to prevent or stop harassment with practical tips on creating a culture that promotes respect and professionalism with bystander intervention strategies and active allyship at the core
- Satisfy sexual harassment training law for non-supervisors in Connecticut
Course Syllabus
Module 1: Introduction: Building Positive Workplaces
Building Positive Workplaces introduces learners to the course topics, functionality, and the idea of positive workplace culture in which everyone plays a role.
- 3 Customizable Content Pages
- 1 Custom Video Page
- Pre-Course Survey
Module 2: Developing Awareness and Recognizing Discrimination
This module introduces learners to the concept of developing awareness in the context of discrimination, protected categories, and bias in the workplace. They also learn about the personal and professional impacts of discriminatory behavior, and topics such as inclusivity and equity.
- 2 Customizable Content Pages
Module 3: Cultivating Attitudes and Identifying Harassment
This module allows learners to explore the attitudes that people bring to the workplace, and those that they expect from their colleagues. They also learn about the spectrum of behavior that can lead to harassment, and steps to prevent harassment. With a focus on cultivating positive, productive attitudes in the workplace, this module addresses barriers to intervention and problematic behaviors, including microaggressions, hostile work environments, quid pro quo harassment, and abusive conduct (bullying).
- 3 Customizable Content Pages
Module 4: Taking Action Against Retaliation
This module introduces learners to the steps that can be taken to address a broad range of potential or actual harmful conduct, and available remedies and penalties to hold offenders accountable.
- 4 Customizable Content Pages
Module 5: Exploring Identity and Allyship
In this section, we discuss the many overlapping and intersecting parts of identity, and how they impact the way we ally with those have experienced sexual harassment. The activities presented in this module will help learners be better colleagues and create safer, more inclusive workplace environments.
- 2 Customizable Content Pages
Module 6: Maintaining Positive Workplaces
Maintaining Positive Workplaces concludes the course by reinforcing the elements of bystander intervention and why a positive workplace culture matters. Learners are encouraged to explore additional resources before the conclusion.
- 1 Custom Policy
- 3 Customizable Content Pages
- 1 Custom Video Page
The purpose of the Part 2 Survey is to measure learning outcomes and behavioral changes resulting from going through this course.
We recommend assigning Part 2 after a 4-6 week intersession is to allow learners to incorporate what they learned into their daily lives and experiences with their peers.
Automated Assignments can be used to implement an intersession.
Post-Course Survey