Deterring and Responding to Harassment - Best Practices for the Federal Workplace

Harassment affects all your employees, and often leads to problems with performance, productivity and morale throughout your entire workforce.  But the widespread deficiencies in agency anti-harassment programs leave you and your agency vulnerable to harassment claims. Get your agency off the slippery slope of liability with guidance to address claims that do arise and proactively work to head them off in the future.

Dynamic trainer Oliver Allen will distill decades of federal EEO experience into 90 minutes of best practices, so you leave with concrete strategies to:

• Evaluate your agency’s anti-harassment program and pinpoint needed improvements
• Advise managers on improving their soft skills so interactions with employees deter harassment claims
• Quickly and appropriately address harassment claims to avoid agency liability
• Collaborate with interagency services to work toward a harassment-free environment
• And more!

Additional issues you’ll explore:

• Why agency anti-harassment policies work — or fail
• What constitutes a hostile work environment
• Liability for harassment by co-workers vs. supervisors
• The impact of tone, language and questions