SEXUAL HARASSMENT INVESTIGATION TRAINING
Conducting Sexual Harassment Workplace Investigations
Learn how to conduct a sexual harassment workplace investigation from our experienced team of legally trained workplace investigators.
- Designed and taught by experts in the field with extensive investigative experience
- Interactive and practical training with your industry peers
- Access to best practice investigation templates
Let us help you unravel the complexities of sexual harassment workplace investigations.
Conducting Sexual Harassment Workplace Investigations
$995+GST
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By the end of this 2 x 1/2 day workshop, you’ll know how to conduct a fair and legally sound sexual harassment workplace investigation.
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Conducting a Sexual Harassment Workplace Investigation
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How To Conduct A Sexual Harassment Workplace Investigation
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By the end of this workshop, you’ll know how to conduct a fair and legally sound sexual harassment workplace investigation.
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This workshop focuses on the complexities and skills required to manage and run a sexual harassment investigation. The key purpose of the training is to develop the skills and confidence of HR teams, legal and compliance officers and internal investigators who are required to conduct or manage sexual harassment investigations. This workshop will be run by our legally trained workplace investigators, who have in-depth experience in conducting complex sexual harassment investigations.
Throughout the workshop, participants will
- Understand the recent developments and reforms in workplace sexual harassment complaints.
- Learn how to take a trauma-informed approach from the receipt of the initial complaint, across the entire investigation, to delivering the outcome.
- Refresh and build their knowledge of the relevant legislative requirements and current best practice approaches for responding to and investigating sexual harassment.
- Understand the fundamentals of procedurally fair investigations and how to apply them.
- Be guided through the tasks involved in conducting an effective workplace investigation.
- Learn how to manage confidentiality using a person-centred approach, while ensuring the process remains fair.
- Understand how to manage common difficulties that may arise during the course of a sexual harassment investigation.
- Explore ways to support all participants through the investigation process.
- Work through the final steps to complete an investigation.
Participants will receive a workbook with reading materials, a case study and investigation templates. Following the workshop, participants will receive a 12-month membership to our online Investigations Toolkit of investigation templates. All templates are designed by Q Workplace Solutions, authors of the leading text: Workplace Investigations: Principles and Practice (2nd edition).
Workshop feedback
“Great to base it around a case study for some context and practical examples. Very experienced and knowledgeable presenters. Right level of info and engagement.”
Agenda
Understand the process and plan for the investigation
Procedural fairness and the regulatory framework
- An overview of regulatory frameworks, including recent legislative reforms.
- Understanding the definition of sexual harassment.
Preliminary issues to consider
- Factors influencing whether an investigation should be undertaken, including adopting a person-centred approach before considering a full investigation.
- Learning how to take a trauma-informed approach from the receipt of the initial complaint, across the entire investigation, and to delivering the outcome.
- Identifying the type of investigation to be undertaken.
- Managing obligations of confidentiality and the wellbeing of all participants.
- Understand how to meet the requirements for a procedurally fair investigation.
- Identifying an investigator – internal or external?
Planning, scope and allegations
- The importance of planning an investigation and how to do this.
- Determining the scope of the investigation.
- Managing stakeholder expectations.
- Drafting allegations to meet the elements of what is required to make a finding of sexual harassment.
The investigation process
Conducting an effective investigation
- Gathering evidence.
- Deciding on the persons to interview and in what order.
- Setting expectations of people involved.
- Record keeping and confidentiality.
- Interview techniques for sexual harassment investigations, including balancing a person-centred approach with a fair and impartial investigation.
- Guided examples on navigating difficult conversations and using trauma-informed approaches in interviews.
Managing difficult issues in investigations
- Considering the impacted person’s wishes not to investigate a complaint.
- Requests for anonymity.
- Information requests and how much to disclose.
- When allegations involve outside-of-work incidents.
- Managing emotional or traumatised interviewees.
- Maintaining independence.
Finalising the investigation and next steps
- Evaluating the evidence.
- Dealing with he said/she said/they said conflicting evdience.
- Tips on how to make well-reasoned findings of fact, assessments of credibility and determining whether factual findings meet the elements of sexual harassment.
- Guidance on what a report should and should not contain.
- Managing requirements for confidentiality in the report.
Q + A closing session – get the most out of the course and pre-submit questions.
“Thank you for the Masterclass on conducting effective investigations. I enjoyed the delivery and content, feeling better equipped to handle an investigation more thoughtfully. The tools and tips you provided will go a long way to helping me prepare when a situation next arises."
Deputy Director Human Resources - (Tertiary Education Sector)
Workplace Investigations: Principles and Practice
Own the essential guide for HR professionals, employment lawyers and workplace investigators. Edited by Paula Hoctor and Kerryn Treadwell.
