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We Need to Overhaul Sexual Harassment Training
Can we start with the old white guy instructors?
Today, I was talking to a friend who recently had to go through a training at his work on sexual-harassment. He found it exceptionally annoying and felt nobody got anything out of the training. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t felt the same way about the same kind of training.
Most people would rather fake a collapsed lung than sit through another session about what isn’t appropriate in the workplace. Like, writhing on the floor, willing to pay for an ambulance level of avoidance.
We need to overhaul this. There’s a few reasons why current sexual-harassment training seminars don’t work.
We keep stating the obvious
It’s the same information over and over again. There are certain things you shouldn’t have remind people are inappropriate to say or do in the workplace.
It’s not news in any way that slapping a coworker on their ass at work is not appropriate behavior. No one is having an “a-ha” moment with that. Yet, we focus on reminding people of this. Notwithstanding, the kind of people that would slap somebody on the ass in an elevator at work don’t care what is told to them inside of a seminar.
