Corporate Training · Values & Culture
An in-house workshop for your whole team: we come to you, or meet you online. Everyone leaves knowing what bullying and harassment is, what it is not, and how to navigate it.
Your staff will know exactly where the line sits, and what to do when someone crosses it.
The business case
Safe Work Australia, Key Work Health and Safety Statistics Australia 2025 (October 2025); Australian Human Rights Commission, Time for Respect: fifth national survey on sexual harassment in Australian workplaces (2022), from a nationally representative sample of more than 10,000 people.
Most bullying and harassment is never reported, but it still costs you. The person on the receiving end carries the stress, colleagues disengage, productivity drops and the culture suffers. When it does surface, it often comes as a stress leave claim, a drawn-out investigation or a Fair Work Commission application. By then you are managing a conflict rather than preventing one, and the damage to relationships and workplace culture is much harder to repair.
Australian employers have long had a legal duty to provide a workplace free from bullying, harassment and discrimination, under work health and safety and anti-discrimination laws. Recent reforms have made that duty more explicit. In particular, the Model WHS Regulations insist that Australian businesses identify and control the risk of psychosocial hazards, of which bullying & harassment is clearly one. Awareness training is one of the clearest ways to show you have taken reasonable steps to mitigate psychosocial risk, whilst genuinely helping staff protect and enshrine respectful culture at work.
What participants learn
Each one is a specific, practical thing your staff can use the day after the workshop.
Identify what is and is not bullying and harassment, including sexual harassment, discriminatory conduct and cyberbullying
Distinguish bullying from reasonable management action and from ordinary robust communication
Recognise the effect of bullying on the person on the receiving end, and on the wider team
Respond to inappropriate behaviour at the time, with assertive language and a clear escalation path
Understand their own rights and obligations under the legislation that governs conduct at work
Notice the habits in their own communication style that land harder on others than they intend
Compare formats & start the conversation
Pick the format that looks closest, tell us your numbers, and whether you are thinking onsite or online. We'll call you to talk it through and shape a quote around what your team actually needs. Tap a card to choose it. Not sure? Pick the standard option and we'll sort it out together on the call.
Every format is run in-house for your own team, at your offices or online, so we come to you. Groups of 10 to 20 work best. Shorter recap sessions and large-group seminar or webinar formats are also available when you need to reach more of your team at once. Every format is quoted per workshop. Tell us the scope and we’ll put a written quote together.
Outcomes
How it works
Tell us team size, format and rough timing.
2 minutesA short conversation about your team, then a quote built around what you actually need.
Personalised discussionScenarios drawn from your own industry, with your own policies and reporting pathways referenced in the room.
1–2 weeks outAt your offices or online, by an experienced facilitator.
2 hoursWho delivers it
Associated EAP workshops are delivered by degree-qualified counsellors or registered psychologists, or adult education specialists where appropriate. Many of our facilitators also work clinically alongside their training, so the examples in the room come from real practice rather than a manual.
Associated EAP has provided employee assistance and workplace training for over 20 years. Workshops are delivered at your own offices, or online.
This workshop is built around practical examples and real workplace scenarios, because the hard part of this subject is never the definition. It is the grey area, and the grey area only gets clearer when a group works through it together.
What participants say
“The training way exceeded our expectations. Our staff are not just aware of their legal obligations to keep each other safe, they truly feel safer and more supported by each other. Sharing our experiences and workshopping scenarios as a team has lead to a renewed respect and trust for each other. The dynamic has changed for the better and the team are happier.”
“Toni was an excellent presenter and handled the training with perfection.”
“The training provided good workplace situations to allow us to better understand what bullying and harassment is, and how we can manage certain situations.”
“An informative and clear presentation. A difficult subject covering all aspects. The presenter was excellent. Thank you.”
“Fabulous session – very knowledgeable and the group was engaged throughout.”
“Really informative, to the point and targeted topics relevant to our workplace.”
“Great to know the organisation takes this issue seriously.”
“A topic everybody in the workforce should know.”
“Very interesting content – I learned a lot.”
“We learnt a lot about each other today.”
“Great to have this opportunity and very useful, thank you!”
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Common questions
Every format is quoted per workshop rather than per person, so the cost does not climb with every extra head in the room. What shapes it is the format you choose, your group size, your location, and whether you want the standard two-hour session, the managers' edition or the recap/extension modules.
Every organisation's needs are different, which is why we don't do one-size-fits-all quotes. Tell us the scope of what you're after and we'll put together a written quote so you know exactly what you're getting before you book.
Two hours as standard, which is the format most organisations book. The managers' edition runs two and a half hours and adds managers' own responsibilities and obligations, reinforcing a culture of respect, handling a complaint, and your own policies and reporting pathways. The Active Bystander module is a two-hour extension that teaches staff how to step in safely when they see something happen. Shorter recap sessions are available for teams wishing to reinforce core obligations, and large-group seminar or webinar formats when you need to reach more of your team at once.
Anywhere from 10 to 20 participants works well. This subject needs a group small enough that people will actually say what they think, because the value is in working through the grey areas out loud rather than reading the definitions off a slide. For larger numbers we run multiple sessions, or a seminar or webinar format for an all-hands audience.
This is the question that comes up in every single workshop, and is one of the main reasons the session exists. Performance management, allocating work, giving hard feedback and holding someone to a standard are all reasonable management action carried out in a reasonable way, and none of it is bullying, even when it feels unwelcome. Bullying is repeated unreasonable behaviour directed at a worker that creates a risk to health and safety. The workshop works through real examples on both sides of that line, and we go further into it in our guide to bullying and reasonable management action.
Yes. Sexual harassment, discriminatory conduct and cyberbullying are all covered in the first component, and the legal component covers Respect at Work, including the positive duty employers now carry under the Sex Discrimination Act to take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate sexual harassment rather than to wait for a complaint. The Australian Human Rights Commission has been able to enforce that duty since December 2023. Our guide to case studies in bullying and harassment law has worked examples.
Yes, over Zoom, and a lot of organisations with staff across several sites do exactly that. We cap online sessions tighter than face-to-face ones, because the discussion is what makes this workshop work and it gets harder to hold as the group grows.
Yes, and we would rather you asked us to. We can reference your own code of conduct, your complaint and escalation pathways and your values in the room, so that staff leave knowing your process rather than a generic one. Scenarios are built from the situations your industry actually produces.
Four to six weeks is comfortable, and it gives us time to tailor the material properly. If something has happened and you need a workshop sooner than that, call us and we will tell you honestly what we can do.
Often booked together
The natural sequel: what a colleague actually does in the moment they see something happen.
See the workshop →For teams where the problem is not misconduct but silence, and nobody feels safe enough to speak up.
See the workshop →For the managers who have to identify and control these hazards, not just recognise them.
See the workshop →Tell us your team size, preferred format and rough timing. We'll call you to talk it through, then build a quote around what your team actually needs.
