Featured Article: From Bystander to Upstander
Chief Learning Officer is a multimedia publication focused on the importance, benefits and advancements of a properly trained workforce. This feature article explains how bystander communication training works, and provides insight into how workplaces can prevent future incidents of harassment and create a more equitable, healthy culture. The National Conflict Resolution Center (NCRC) has created a version of its most popular workshop, The Bystander Challenge, which is compliant with state requirements (SB 778 for employees and CA AB 1825 for supervisors) for workplace anti-harassment training. In addition to covering the required curriculum around harassment and how to identify it, stop it and report it, this course also examines a bystander’s role in decreasing inappropriate communication and behavior in the workplace, so that harassment is less likely to occur in the first place.