In this workshop, participants learn how to foster a respectful, safe and inclusive workplace culture, including identifying and mitigating psychosocial risks.
Participants also develop an awareness of their legal obligations regarding bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct and knowledge of the grievance process.
Program Objectives
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Raise worker awareness of their obligations and protections regarding workplace misconduct
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Transfer knowledge and skills for prevention and early intervention
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Develop an understanding how trauma impacts the grievance process and characteristics of a trauma-informed approach
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Develop an understanding of the organisation’s grievance process
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Engage participants in cultural and behavioural change
Workshop Outline
Module 1: The Nature and Drivers of Workplace Misconduct
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Prevalence of workplace misconduct in the wider Australian labour market and employer industry
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Individual, workgroup and employer costs of misconduct
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Risk factors and drivers
Module 2: Your Obligations Regarding Respect and Safety
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Obligations and responsibilities under work health and safety legislation, anti-discrimination legislation, and workplace policies
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Defining respect and understanding the characteristics of respectful workplaces and interactions
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Strategies for fostering a respectful workplace culture
Module 3: Your Responsibility to Speak Up
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The relationship between everyday disrespect and unlawful workplace conduct
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Upstander strategies for addressing disrespect at work
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Defining harassment, bullying, discrimination, sexual harassment and victimisation
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Speak-up channels and employer response and protections
Module 4: Action Planning
Learning Outcomes
Participants gain:
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Understanding of workplace misconduct and its negative implications for health, safety, and performance
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Increased capacity and confidence to identify and respond to bullying, harassment, discrimination and sexual misconduct
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Awareness of the interplay between prevention and workplace culture
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Increased motivation for fostering psychologically safe and inclusive work settings
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An understanding of their rights and obligations in relation to workplace misconduct
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Greater self-awareness from reflection and feedback
Organisations gain:
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A workforce with increased capacity to prevent and practice early intervention regarding workplace misconduct
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Improved workplace culture
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Improved employee safety & wellbeing, satisfaction, engagement, performance and productivity
Consistent with research on adult learning, we believe that the best learning outcomes result when participants engage holistically with program content. All Include-Empower learning and development programs incorporate experiential learning techniques, including opportunities to reflect on and apply learnings to the real-life challenges facing participants.
Individual contributors. Content is tailored to meet participants’ unique needs and industry context.
Recommended workshop size is 8-20 participants but larger sized workshops can be accommodated.
Developing an inclusive mindset requires commitment. The recommended length of the workshop is a half-day (3-hours). The workshop may be run face-to-face or delivered virtually. During formal training, participants are encouraged to reflect on their real-life work context and develop an action plan by identifying specific behaviours introduced during the workshop that they can practice back in the work setting. To drive accountability and embed learnings, we offer a facilitated debrief six to eight weeks after the initial workshop to share learnings, and extend commitments or set new commitments.
We have a transparent fee structure. Please contact us for details.
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