Respect at Work: Conduct, Boundaries and Speaking Up

By the end

What you'll build

• Distinguish friendly, awkward and harassing conduct using impact and the reasonable-person view rather than intent
• Explain in plain words what the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 requires of employers, and where to check the details
• State a professional boundary in one sentence, out loud, without apologising for it or ending on a question
• Identify formal and informal sources of power, and explain why the same sentence from a senior person is a different act
• Tell quid pro quo apart from a hostile working environment, and give a worked example of each
• Apply respect standards to chat messages, video calls, after-hours contact, forwarded screenshots and work social events
• Recognise everyday exclusion on grounds including caste, religion, region, language, gender, disability, age and care responsibilities
• Interrupt disrespectful behaviour using four rehearsed low-risk scripts, and follow up with the person affected
• Describe the informal and formal routes for raising a concern, what confidentiality and non-retaliation mean, and what a respondent is entitled to
• Produce a written team respect charter and a personal plan for what you will do if you see it

Curriculum

What's inside

7 modules · 48 lessons

1. 01

   Dignity at Work: The Baseline

   6 lessons
   • Start Here: What This Course Is and Is Not
   • Dignity at Work in Four Tests
   • Friendly, Awkward, Harassing: One Spectrum
   • Sorting the Three Bandsfill blank
   • Words You Will Needword power
   • + 1 more lesson
2. 02

   Impact, Not Intent

   7 lessons
   • "I Did Not Mean It": Why Intent Is Not the Test
   • The Reasonable Person, Explained Plainly
   • Unwelcome: How You Can Tell Before Being Told
   • Phrases People Use to Move the Subject Awaymetaphor idiom
   • Lab: Rewrite Four Remarkswriting lab
   • + 2 more lessons
3. 03

   Consent, Boundaries and Power

   7 lessons
   • Consent at Work: Four Places It Applies
   • Setting a Boundary in One Sentence
   • Say the Boundary Out Loudspeaking lab
   • Why Seniority Changes the Meaning of the Same Words
   • Power Is Not Only the Org Chart
   • + 2 more lessons
4. 04

   Conduct Beyond the Desk: Digital and Social

   7 lessons
   • Work Has No Walls: The Chat Window Is a Workplace
   • The After-Hours Message
   • Cameras, Calls and What Is Behind You
   • Forwarding, Screenshots and Group Chats
   • Offsites, Dinners and the Ride Home
   • + 2 more lessons
5. 05

   Everyday Exclusion

   6 lessons
   • Beyond Harassment: The Exclusion Nobody Reports
   • Six Ordinary Moments Where People Get Left Out
   • Caste, Religion, Region and Language, Handled Factually
   • Disability, Age and Care Responsibilities
   • Build It: Sentences That Includesentence builder
   • + 1 more lesson
6. 06

   The Bystander and Speaking Up

   8 lessons
   • The Bystander Who Acts
   • Four Low-Risk Moves, With Exact Words
   • Lab: Your Bystander Scriptwriting lab
   • Say It in the Momentspeaking lab
   • Raising a Concern: Informal and Formal Routes
   • + 3 more lessons
7. 07

   Capstone: Your Charter and Your Plan

   7 lessons
   • If Someone Tells You Something: The First Five Minutes
   • Lab: The Manager's First Replywriting lab
   • Small Things, Named Early
   • Template: Your Team Respect Charterspeech template
   • Capstone Part 1: Write Your Team Respect Charterwriting lab
   • + 2 more lessons

The shape of it

How this course works