Bullying and harassment awareness and skills courses

Complaints arise when your employees lack either the skills or understanding to meet their behavioural contract. You can enable your employees to understand and buy into what is meant by diversity at work and minimise the amount and severity of bullying and harassment allegations using:

Workshops and briefings

You can provide your managers and employees with up to date information regarding the Equalities Act 2010 with these short 2-hour workshops. Your employees will:

  • Understand the 9 protected characteristics, 3rd party harassment and harassment based on association or perception following the Equality Act 2010
  • Understand your organisation’s policies and procedures
  • Understand skills such as listening; empathy and impartiality; conflict ‘scoping’ skills; encouraging early resolution
  • Improve how they handle the initial contact made by members of staff regarding issues of harassment and discrimination*
  • Encourage people to reach an early resolution*

*available in tailored workshops for managers

Contact CMP for further information on briefing your employees and managers

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Bullying and Harassment Skills for Managers

Develop your managers understanding of employment legislation around bullying and harassment. These short courses available as 1- and 2- day programmes enable managers to understand their role and responsibilities as manager and how to respond constructively and confidently when staff raise issues with them.

Managers who attend will:

  • Increase awareness and understanding of their role in promoting fairness, equality and dignity; and how to effectively challenging bullying or harassing behaviour and practices
  • Develop key skills such as listening under pressure; empathy and impartiality; conflict ‘scoping’ skills; encouraging early resolution
  • Feel more positive about responding when allegations of bullying and harassment are made
  • Recognise bullying, harassment and intimidation
  • Build confidence in challenging bullying and harassment

Contact us to train your managers to better manage bullying and harassment

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Bullying and harassment skills for employees

Improve levels of awareness of bullying and harassment throughout your organisations in a non-threatening and positive way. These 1- and 2- day programmes enable your employees to:

  • Have a basic understanding of current legislation and your organisation’s policy on bullying and harassment
  • Understand diversity, equalities and discrimination in the context of harassment and bullying at work
  • Understand how bullying and harassment happens and why
  • Explore and exchange views about issues raised by workplace bullying and harassment
  • Think about how they can contribute to an anti-bullying and environment and a non-bullying culture
  • Understand what support is available when issues of bullying and harassment arise
  • Have commitment to the key principles of the council’s policy on bullying and harassment

Contact us to receive bullying and harassment training for your employees

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