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Investigating a Complaint in the Workplace in the #MeToo Era

Overview

Where

Online Event
Online Event
Fremont, CA 94539
United States

When

Tuesday, January 7, 2020 -
10:00am to 11:00am

Details

Overview
Conducting workplace investigations is one of the most challenging management and HR duties, but also one of the most important. This webinar is designed to train managers and HR professionals in how to conduct a thorough, emotionally sensitive and impartial workplace investigation. Complaints of sexual misconduct, harassment, bullying and abuse abound in today's workplace.

Why you should Attend
You will learn when, how, and what to investigate? How to be empathic without agreeing and how to deal with the alleged violator as fairly as possible? Providing the victim support services if necessary and types of support will be offered. Proper techniques, decision-making and report writing will also be discussed.

Now is the time to increase your knowledge because now is the time when this issue is in the forefront of many minds and people who had been silent before are now coming forward thanks to the #MeToo Movement. There is an ethical, moral and legal duty to investigate thoroughly, to recognize due process - and also to recognize and over-come the natural biases we as investigators bring to the situation.

Areas Covered in the Session
Who should conduct the investigation - and who should not and why
How to start the process - being kind, empathic, but not agreeing to anyone
The importance of due process and not promising the wrong kind of confidentiality
Possible questions to ask
Your own biases - such as believing the first person and conformation bias
Effective policy and procedures
Interviewing witnesses, conducting evidence
Types of sanctions based on allegations
When for example to use mediation - when to call the police
Report writing
Who Will Benefit
Anyone being asked to conduct an investigation
HR Professionals
In-house counsel
Managers and Executives
Small Business Owners
Speaker Profile
Dr. ArLyne Diamond, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized Leadership, Management, Professional Development, and Organizational Development (O-D) consultant specializing in people and processes in the workplace. Multifaceted, Dr. Diamond has extensive experience in a wide range of disciplines (business, education, management, marketing, business ownership, psychology - and some economics and law as well). This enables her to see things from a variety of angles and to cleave to the essence of a problem quickly, offering her clients creative and practical solutions.