Bullying and Harassment

“If unchecked, bullying and harassment is like a cancer which will spread its tentacles across the entire organisation & strangle it.”

Benefits

Bullying behaviour only ‘benefits’ one person – the person doing it!  Everyone else suffers and so does morale & productivity. It is everyone’s duty therefore, to work co-operatively and ensure that bullying behaviour is halted.  Where there’s a will, it can be done!

Aim

To demonstrate that workplace bullying is everybody’s problem and show how effective anti-bullying policies and procedures are the responsibility of us all to implement.

Objectives

By the end of the training you will be able to…

• Understand the ways in which ‘bullies’ operate
• Demonstrate strategies to identify those who use bullying behaviour and the situations where harassment takes place
• Develop a formal and effective bullying and harassment policy

Content

• What is workplace bullying and harassment?
• Acceptable and unacceptable forms of behaviour
• Why does it happen and what can be done about it?
• The legal definitions of bullying & harassment, (and your statutory rights)
• Effects on business - the shocking facts and figures!
• How to recognise bullying behaviour – the many forms that it can take and the two-phase process of control!
• Policies and procedures that really work - how to deal with issues of bullying with impartiality and tact
• Raising awareness in the workplace
• Keeping the workplace free of bullying and harassment

Duration

1 day