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Preventing Workplace Harassment and Discrimination Global Course

Global workplaces require employees and supervisors to navigate workplace interactions with professionalism, cultural awareness, and accountability across diverse teams and environments.

This course helps learners recognize inappropriate behavior, identify concerns early, and respond with greater confidence and judgment in complex workplace situations.

Built by employment law attorneys, this training helps organizations translate workplace conduct expectations into practical workplace behavior that is appropriate, legally informed, and aligned with international workplace standards.

Global workplace employees representing professionalism, accountability, and positive workplace culture.

Audience

All employees

Format

Self-paced, scenario-based online training

Compliance Scope

Applicable to broad global audiences

Duration

30 minutes

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The impact of workplace harassment and discrimination.

SHIFT helps organizations strengthen workplace culture, reduce risk, and support respectful workplace behavior across global teams.

1 in 5

global workers have experienced harassment or discrimination

60%

of employees do not report incidents of discrimination

2x

women are twice as likely as men to experience sexual harassment at work

Harassment and discrimination can affect trust, retention, collaboration, and organizational risk across every region and industry. Preventing Workplace Harassment and Discrimination Global Course helps employees recognize concerns early, apply sound judgment in difficult situations, and respond in ways that support respectful workplace interactions across global work environments.

Ethics and respect are not location-specific.

Expectations must be understood and applied everywhere.

Course overview

SHIFT’s Preventing Workplace Harassment and Discrimination Global Course equips employees and supervisors with practical tools to recognize, prevent, and respond to inappropriate behavior in a wide range of workplace environments.

Through interactive, real-world scenarios, learners explore how harassment, discrimination, and retaliation can emerge in subtle and complex ways across cultures, roles, and communication styles. The course reinforces the importance of respect, inclusion, and accountability while supporting compliance with applicable global standards.

This is not check-the-box compliance training. It is practical, behavior-driven learning designed to support consistent conduct across global teams.

Beyond policy to real-world prevention

Most harassment and discrimination training explains rules and definitions but does not prepare employees for real-world ambiguity.

SHIFT’s approach uses realistic scenarios and guided reflection to help learners recognize early warning signs, understand impact versus intent, and respond appropriately when facing uncertain or sensitive situations.

The result is a workforce better equipped to prevent misconduct before it escalates into legal, reputational, or cultural harm.

Key learner takeaways

This training builds the ability to:

  • Recognize harassment, discrimination, and retaliation in workplace scenarios
  • Identify and respond to inappropriate behavior early and appropriately
  • Understand the difference between intent and impact in global workplace interactions
  • Apply bystander intervention techniques to support respectful workplaces
  • Strengthen awareness of cultural differences in communication and behavior

Anti-harassment trainings can often be dull, but this program is genuinely engaging and interesting.

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Alicia Janowicz
Human Resources Business Partner

Compliance coverage

Global compliance you can trust

In addition to our global course, we offer our Preventing Workplace Harassment & Discrimination courses in country-specific versions tailored to meet compliance requirements in Canada, the UK, Australia, and India, with additional regions available upon request.

We also offer a streamlined U.S. version that simplifies complex training mandates, allowing learners to take a single course and select the U.S. location(s) where they work or manage. The intuitive platform also adapts dynamically to mandated time requirements, ensuring both flexibility and compliance.

Offerings also include industry-specific versions of our courses for retail, healthcare and manufacturing and trade, so the content reflects the realities of each workplace.

Applicable to a Broad Global Audience

Proven to change behavior.

This training goes beyond awareness to real-world application in global workplace contexts.

  • Uses realistic, globally relevant scenarios
  • Highlights subtle risks in cross-cultural communication and behavior
  • Encourages reflection, accountability, and perspective-taking
  • Strengthens bystander intervention and early response skills
  • Reinforces respectful and inclusive decision-making
  • Builds consistency across distributed teams and regions

Result: Employees make more informed decisions that strengthen culture, reduce risk, and improve workplace consistency across global operations.

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Course details

 

Format
Self-paced eLearning with interactive scenarios and reflection points
Duration
30 minutes
Languages
English and Spanish (others available upon request)
Certificate
Instant certificate download
Accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, screen-reader compatible, closed captions included
Flexible Delivery Options
SCORM-ready training, deployable via client LMS or hosted by SHIFT
Customization
Branding options and full content tailoring available, with updates reviewed to maintain alignment with legal requirements
White Glove Implementation
Dedicated Project Manager
SCORM integration
LMS set-up & admin training
Go-live support and post-launch check-ins

Frequently asked questions about global harassment and discrimination training.

This course is designed to support harassment and discrimination training expectations across multiple jurisdictions. Organizations should confirm alignment with specific local legal requirements where applicable.

Yes. It is designed for supervisors and non-supervisory employees to ensure consistent understanding across roles and regions.

The course uses scenario-based learning to highlight how cultural context, communication styles, and expectations can influence workplace interactions.

Yes. SHIFT offers full customization including branding, policy alignment, and industry-specific scenarios.

It focuses on real-world application rather than definitions, helping employees navigate ambiguity and make better decisions in global workplace situations.

See how SHIFT prepares your teams for real workplace decisions.

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