Bullying Versus Harassment: What’s the Difference and How to Prevent Both
The case for preventing workplace harassment is well established, though many companies still underestimate the non- litigation costs. While discussions about workplace bullying are newer to HR, workplace bullying is highly prevalent and costly to companies. Both harassment and bullying cause anxiety, low job satisfaction, and increased turnover, but they have differing legal consequences. The distinction, and the overlap, between these concepts can certainly cause confusion. This session will help you define both the similarities and differences in workplace bullying and illegal harassment and understand their legal significance. The presenters will describe the damage caused by these behaviors to make a business case for ending them and articulate tactics for building a preventative and sustainable positive culture change.
Catherine Mattice, SHRM-SCP
Catherine Mattice, MA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, is the founder/CEO of Civility Partners, a strategic organizational development firm focused on helping organizations create respectful workplace cultures and specializing in turning around toxic cultures. Civility Partners’ clients range from Fortune 500's to small businesses across many industries. Catherine is a TEDx speaker and an HR thought-leader who has appeared in such venues as USA Today, Bloomberg, CNN, NPR, and many other national news outlets as an expert. She’s an award-winning speaker and blogger, author of three books, and she has 50+ courses reaching global audiences on LinkedIn Learning.
Alisa Shorago, J.D.
Alisa A. Shorago, J.D., is an accomplished and entertaining trainer, instructor, and speaker based in Southern California, as well as an attorney with over 15 years’ litigation experience, including experience defending sexual harassment suits.
Alisa began providing sexual harassment prevention training (AB 1825) training because she found it more satisfying to help people stay out of trouble than deal with matters once they had reached the litigation stage. She knew it would be possible to be not only an entertaining sexual harassment trainer but an informative one, so that participants would pay attention and actually learn.
Alisa started her own training company in 2008. Through Shorago Training Services, Alisa provides engaging and informative on-site seminars throughout California and the United States. Her training specialties include not only sexual harassment training but also interesting and fun training in business writing (including email writing), legal writing, business professionalism and etiquette, and workplace communication skills. She has led trainings for companies (including Fortune 100 companies) in a broad range of industries.