What you learn:
- Identify appropriate reporting channels and timelines
- Understand anti-retaliation obligations
- Protect confidentiality and sensitive information
- Communicate outcomes while maintaining trust
Description:
Effective reporting channels are essential for early detection and remediation. This course covers accessible reporting mechanisms, the role of confidentiality, and anti-retaliation protections. Practical guidance ensures that employees feel safe to raise concerns and that organizations respond promptly and fairly.
Participants will examine real cases and discuss best practices for documenting reports and communicating outcomes while maintaining trust.
Forms of harassment
Harassment can take several forms across settings and channels.
- Verbal harassment: insults, demeaning comments, threats, or slurs.
- Physical harassment: unwanted touching, blocking movement, or aggressive gestures.
- Visual harassment: offensive images, memes, or symbols.
Discriminatory behavior includes treating someone unfavorably because of protected characteristics, and microaggressions are subtle, persistent slights that accumulate over time.
Other harmful behaviors include bullying, stalking, sexual harassment, and retaliation, which are addressed by the policy and reporting channels.