How to Create Effective Sexual Harassment Training Programs to Prevent Workplace Discrimination

Sexual harassment in the workplace is a serious matter. It involves unwelcome conduct that's sexual in nature or based on a person's gender or sex, and it can happen between people of different sexes or between people of the same sex. Organizations and managers have a critical role to play in preventing and responding to sexual harassment in the workplace.

As the workplace continues to become more diverse, employers must embrace diversity or lose their competitive edge by alienating a large portion of the workforce. Effective diversity education and sexual harassment training programs bring greater awareness to what constitutes misconduct and how to report it.

LRN, the leader in corporate risk management, legal research and sexual harassment training, believes companies can deter all forms of discrimination in workplace, including all forms of workplace harassment and discrimination, by making corporate governance and accountability part of the fabric of their organizational cultures. The best sexual harassment training programs teach employees and management what constitutes unethical conduct. LRN's sexual harassment training programs help employees recognize and report all forms of misconduct, affirm that they follow the code of conduct, and take responsibility for safeguarding their company's culture.

LRN's experience has shown that companies create effective sexual harassment training programs when they incorporate five key elements:

• Senior management takes responsibility for driving ethics and sexual harassment training efforts.
• Educate on values – as well as laws and rules – to inspire principled behavior.
• Make diversity training interesting and engaging.
• Make sexual harassment training relevant to real on the job scenarios.
• Reinforce sexual harassment training by relating course content to actual workplace experiences.

Since 1993, LRN has helped nearly 300 companies create and implement effective ethics and compliance training programs that teach employees how to recognize and report discrimination in the workplace. LRN's team of 350 dedicated professionals will work with you to develop programs that promote and reinforce your ethics and sexual harassment training curriculum. Visit LRN.com to find out how you can create winning diversity and ethics training programs to inspire principled performance.