Workshop:
Eliminating Sexual Harassment through Allied Workforces

Overview

Workplace culture is influenced by leadership but determined by all.
This workshop is designed to give employees at all levels of the business an understanding of what behaviours constitute sexual harassment under the Sex Discrimination Act. Their legal obligation under the act and the effects of these behaviours on individuals, families, colleagues and businesses. It equips employees with the knowledge to be allies against sexual harassment. How to identify sexual harassment when it happens and have an agreed upon manner to stop it immediately and longer term to eliminate it in the workplace. To identify the signs that someone may be experiencing sexual harassment and how to support them to stop it.

Eliminating sexual harassment from your workplace culture relies on everyone understanding, owning and committing to their accountability as individuals and Allies.

Workshop Outcomes

Define what sexual harassment is
Explain the legal obligations of individuals and businesses under the Sex Discrimination Act
Explain why sexual harassment is detrimental to individuals, families, colleagues and businesses
Explain why sexual harassment happens in the workplace
Identify sexual harassment behaviours in the workplace
Demonstrate the ability to identify someone who is being sexually harassed and support them to stop it
Develop and agree on a way of calling out and stopping sexual harassment immediately and longer term to eliminate it in the workplace

Topics Covered

What is sexual harassment and the obligations of individuals and businesses under the Sex Discrimination Act?
What are the outcomes of sexual harassment?
Why does sexual harassment manifest in a workplace?
What does sexual harassment look like, sound like and feel like?
What are the signs that someone may be being sexually harassed?
How to support someone who is being sexually harassed to stop it
What are unacceptable sexual harassment behaviours in my workplace?
What is an agreed and accepted way of calling out and stopping sexual harassment in my workplace?

Who is this workshop for

All members of your workforce. Teams should attend as a team with their supervisors. Numbers can be adjusted to suit HR Professionals and Leaders

Handouts/materials provided

Participants booklet containing key concepts, tools and templates.
At the end of the session the participant will have a team agreed list of behaviours that will be called out in an agreed manner to eliminate workplace sexual harassment.

What to bring

A mindset to participate with an intent to eliminate sexual harassment from your workplace.

Facilitator

Sharlie Morrison Business Improvement, Inclusive Cultural Change

Sharlie is a multidisciplinary expert with an extensive background in continuous improvement, inclusive cultural change, organisational design and operations leadership. She has successfully lived and led the implementation of these initiatives in continuous operations and projects environments resulting in significant improvements in innovation, safety, production and business resilience.

Sharlie has a reputation for driving sustainable business improvement within single and multi-site facilities through strategy development and deployment, tactical execution plans with specific measurable business outcomes, and the development, training and coaching of visual business improvement systems, processes and tools.

Some examples of Sharlie’s experience include:

Design and delivery of a large (250+) multidisciplinary operational team comprising of technical, trades and operations personnel to ensure safe and efficient operation of a greenfield processing facility.

Implementation of a skills based, multiple interview panel, bulk recruiting strategy delivered workforce diversity that met or exceeded industry best practice standards in key diversity indicators.

Design and implementation of a new operational model to restructure a large (600+) existing workforce, achieving a 30% reduction in head count, while maintaining safety and production performance.

Developing and delivering an inclusive workplace and leadership training program to a large (250+) workforce to enable employees to build and maintain an inclusive workplace culture.

Working collaboratively with subject matter experts to establish operational learning pathways and develop associated training materials and tools.

Sharlie has a passion for engaging employees in an inclusive, innovative culture while achieving results focused business objectives. She has a strong focus on psychological safety, developing relationships and delivering training, tools and workshops for large and small organisations to build individual, team and organisational capability in the areas of business improvement, inclusive workplace culture, organisational design and leadership.

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Sharlie Morrison Business Improvement, Inclusive Cultural Change

About the facilitator

Sharlie is a multidisciplinary expert with an extensive background in continuous improvement, inclusive cultural change, organisational design and operations leadership. She has successfully lived and led the implementation of these initiatives in continuous operations and projects environments resulting in significant improvements in innovation, safety, production and business resilience.

Sharlie has a reputation for driving sustainable business improvement within single and multi-site facilities through strategy development and deployment, tactical execution plans with specific measurable business outcomes, and the development, training and coaching of visual business improvement systems, processes and tools.

Some examples of Sharlie’s experience include:

Design and delivery of a large (250+) multidisciplinary operational team comprising of technical, trades and operations personnel to ensure safe and efficient operation of a greenfield processing facility.

Implementation of a skills based, multiple interview panel, bulk recruiting strategy delivered workforce diversity that met or exceeded industry best practice standards in key diversity indicators.

Design and implementation of a new operational model to restructure a large (600+) existing workforce, achieving a 30% reduction in head count, while maintaining safety and production performance.

Developing and delivering an inclusive workplace and leadership training program to a large (250+) workforce to enable employees to build and maintain an inclusive workplace culture.

Working collaboratively with subject matter experts to establish operational learning pathways and develop associated training materials and tools.

Sharlie has a passion for engaging employees in an inclusive, innovative culture while achieving results focused business objectives. She has a strong focus on psychological safety, developing relationships and delivering training, tools and workshops for large and small organisations to build individual, team and organisational capability in the areas of business improvement, inclusive workplace culture, organisational design and leadership.

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Sharlie Morrison Business Improvement, Inclusive Cultural Change

About the facilitator

Sharlie is a multidisciplinary expert with an extensive background in continuous improvement, inclusive cultural change, organisational design and operations leadership. She has successfully lived and led the implementation of these initiatives in continuous operations and projects environments resulting in significant improvements in innovation, safety, production and business resilience.

Sharlie has a reputation for driving sustainable business improvement within single and multi-site facilities through strategy development and deployment, tactical execution plans with specific measurable business outcomes, and the development, training and coaching of visual business improvement systems, processes and tools.

Some examples of Sharlie’s experience include:

Design and delivery of a large (250+) multidisciplinary operational team comprising of technical, trades and operations personnel to ensure safe and efficient operation of a greenfield processing facility.

Implementation of a skills based, multiple interview panel, bulk recruiting strategy delivered workforce diversity that met or exceeded industry best practice standards in key diversity indicators.

Design and implementation of a new operational model to restructure a large (600+) existing workforce, achieving a 30% reduction in head count, while maintaining safety and production performance.

Developing and delivering an inclusive workplace and leadership training program to a large (250+) workforce to enable employees to build and maintain an inclusive workplace culture.

Working collaboratively with subject matter experts to establish operational learning pathways and develop associated training materials and tools.

Sharlie has a passion for engaging employees in an inclusive, innovative culture while achieving results focused business objectives. She has a strong focus on psychological safety, developing relationships and delivering training, tools and workshops for large and small organisations to build individual, team and organisational capability in the areas of business improvement, inclusive workplace culture, organisational design and leadership.

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Eliminating Sexual Harassment through Allied Workforces