Has Your NYS Sexual Harassment Prevention Trainer Investigated and Stopped Workplace Harassment Themselves in Business and at Work?

As a mediator, I particularly love participating in any available mediation training. I took one mediation training several years ago offered by a membership organization where there were two trainers – one trainer was an active and trained mediator like me; and the other trainer had never mediated. The experienced-mediator trainer shared first-hand (names etc. redacted for confidentiality) experiences, which made their part of the training interesting and engaging; and even as an experienced mediator, there were some great takeaway nuggets for me. The non-mediator basically recited the course material, which unfortunately made what should have been great training material uninteresting and at times, sleep-inducing.

Since that experience, when I consider taking a training, I always read the biography of the trainer. If they’re not a subject-matter expert (SME) – that is, if they have not successfully worked and delivered results on the topic of their training – it’s frankly a waste of time and money all around.

On the same token and in good conscience, I will not train on a topic where I can’t be a SME resource during and after the training – e.g., answering participants’ questions that may not be included in the training content.  As both a trainer and a participant, sharing my own first-hand / boots-on-the-ground experiences on the training content always makes the training more engaging and authentic, reinforcing the content and the takeaways.

As a current example: I have nearly 30 years of experience conducting NYS-based sexual and other harassment prevention training; investigating harassment complaints; taking corrective action from counseling to termination for those who choose to harass; and and preventing / stopping harassment altogether.

Has your NYS Sexual and other Harassment Prevention trainer investigated, taking corrective action and prevented / stopped workplace harassment themselves for several years or more, in business and at work?