Preventing workplace sexual harassment. We've done the basics. What's next?

Doing impactful work when it comes to the prevention of workplace sexual harassment is all about safety. When an organisation feels unsafe with the topic area it reacts. It makes knee-jerk decisions. It can't see the nuance. Often it will oscillate from doing nothing about harassment to rapidly dismissing people for sexual harassment. It can be a nervous game of all or nothing with little room for nuance. Do you recognise that type of organisation? Do you work in it or for it?

Let's look at a different way to hold this topic area. If an organisation feels safe with the topic area of sexual harassment, if the team tasked with taking responsibility for managing reports of harassment feel informed, supported, and that they have the support of the senior leadership, they can respond to sexual harassment rather than react to it. With this approach there is more time, there…