Proactive Skills for Avoiding Harassment and Bias Claims with Janine Yancey, Founder & CEO, Emtrain (#25)

If the EEOC gets wind of a complaint involving sexual harassment or discrimination, the employer could end up paying in more ways than one to mitigate the damage. For example, the agency recently took a fast food franchise owner to court for allegedly failing to address harassment. The settlement was nearly $2 million. To help assess your risk, and explore ways to proactively manage it, we’ve called in employment law compliance expert, founder and CEO at Emtrain, Janine Yancey.

Highlights

[3:57] The persistence of “unwelcome behavior” in the workplace

[7:58] Trainable skills for preventing employee conflict

[17:46] Measuring data on your culture

[19:20] “Universal skills matrix”

[27:58] Consequences if nothing is done about misuse of power

[29:26] The legal big picture on workplace sexual harassment claims

[31:12] What happens in the aftermath of litigation

[33:28] “Tug-of-war” bias

[35:20] “48 Laws of Power”

[36:25] Resolution tools for HR leaders

Janine Yancey, Founder & CEO, Emtrain

Janine Yancey is a lawyer and the founder and CEO of Emtrain. She recruited a team of Silicon Valley experts in product, design, and learning to create a unique culture tech platform that provides information and advice to employees, and analytics to employers, to stop harassment, bias, and ethics problems.

Janine’s vision of democratizing access to information and guidance and creating a global solution to these workplace problems have put her at the forefront of thought leadership on sexual harassment, bias, and ethics issues. She advised the California state senate in 2018 on a harassment training mandate and helped draft a regulation, which went into effect in 2019.

Janine is a sought-after expert and speaker. She’s been published and interviewed by The Washington Post, USA Today, ABC, MSN, CNET, Bloomberg Business, Tech Crunch and Startup Grind.

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/janineyancey/

www.emtrain.com

https://www.hrmorning.com/news/sexual-harassment-alabama-eeoc/

https://www.hrmorning.com/lp/webinars/learning-to-be-better/

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