Respect & Civility Training - HR Proactive Demo

Promoting a Civil & Respectful Workplace Culture

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A work environment characterized by civility and respect is essential for the effective operation of increasingly diverse workplaces. Rude, disrespectful or otherwise objectionable conduct impacts the workplace:

It can drive a wedge between co-workers, drive down productivity, and drive your best employees out the door to other employers. Worse, it can result in a poisoned work environment that can cost you dearly in court costs, damages, and goodwill. Left undealt with, a poisoned work environment will result in a fragmented workforce, with employees choosing sides in a rancorous atmosphere where uncivil and disrespectful incidents occur. Employees are the face of your organization; if that face is marked by a scowl, a look of anguish, or muttered unhappiness, your customers and suppliers will take notice.

Respect and civility should become part of your corporate DNA and inform everything you do in the course of your business. However, you cannot create Respect and Civility in the Workplace by waving a magic wand. As an employer, you need to set clear and unambiguous standards of conduct, and follow-up with positive measures that cultivate and encourage a civil and respectful work environment. To be effective, this requires the active participation of employees. Employees need to be part of the process to establish standards of conduct that reflect the sensitivities of your particular workplace. They should have input into determining what is welcome and unwelcome behaviour. Without their input, they will not feel they have an ownership stake in the workplace environment. In other words, the process of developing a Respectful and Civil Workplace must itself be respectful and civil. A top-down approach – “be civil and respectful or else!” – is doomed to failure.

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