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Learning leaders reexamine sexual harassment prevention in light of new state laws

CLO Magazine

1 in the state of Illinois, the Workplace Transparency Act mandates workplace sexual harassment training for public and private organizations with more than 15 employees. Illinois is the sixth state in the last few years to create and pass a bill that would require workplace sexual harassment training.

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How Effective is Mandatory Harassment Training?

CLO Magazine

“The landscape around harassment has changed more in the past six to eight months than I’ve seen it happen in 28 years of being in human resources,” said Amy Polefrone, president at HR Strategy Group. Considering that observation, the Stop Sexual Harassment in New York City Act seems timely. Data from the U.S.

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How to Avoid The 3 Mistakes L&D Leaders Make When Addressing Workplace Harassment

CLO Magazine

In the past two decades, more and more organizations have deployed strategies for reducing and eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace. They have spent considerable time, energy and resources to reduce sexual harassment. Any training they do is compliance based. Any training they do is compliance based.

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From bystander to upstander

CLO Magazine

We’ve mandated sexual harassment prevention training. Up until a couple years ago, anti-harassment training was usually organized in response to a specific incident or public moment. Many states now require businesses to offer anti-harassment training. We’ve changed the laws. What does then?

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Self-Awareness: The Ladder to Leadership Success

CLO Magazine

National dialogue and federal policy shifts have caused change to continuously ripple throughout the health care industry. For the past two U.S. presidential administrations, health care has been a contentious issue. We keep trying new things to engage workers and better serve patients. In the book “Who Killed Change?,”

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Diversity Is Learning’s Business

CLO Magazine

In 2017, the #MeToo movement went viral, laying bare the scale of sexual harassment and abuse across the country, especially in the workplace. From Anti-Harassment to Unconscious Bias . A lack of understanding of inclusion leads to toxic work environments where harassment actually happens,” she said.

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How to Make BYOD Work

CLO Magazine

For those deploying enterprise learning, BYOD can cause nightmares. But companies have been on the front end of major technology transformations before, said Avron Barr, director of the International Federation for Learning, Education, and Training Systems Interoperability (LETSI), a nonprofit organization focused on technology in learning.