Tips on Producing Sexual Harassment Training Videos for the Workplace

As a business owner, you probably understand the importance of providing workplace harassment training, especially when it comes to teaching employees about the risks, and potential consequences of sexual harassment. A single sexual harassment lawsuit could result in incredible damage to your organization including fines and monetary damages of more than $1M, attorney’s fees, according to OSHA, and you could also suffer a permanently tarnished reputation. Sexual harassment training videos for the workplace represent an excellent form of training for employees that is engaging, informative and educational.

If you’re thinking about creating sexual harassment training videos for the workplace, we’ve got some Pro Tips to help you out! Of course, we encourage you to give us a call to further discuss the production of a training video series that’s right for your organization. With more than two decades of experience in video production, Beverly Boy Productions knows what it takes to produce a top quality video training series and we would love to help your business thrive!

Before you get started with the production of a sexual harassment training series for your organization, consider the following tips, techniques, and important tactics.

Keep Topics Short & Easy to Digest

One of the most important considerations when it comes to producing a training video is to keep the content short and easy to digest. This goes for any type of training video, but it’s especially true for sexual harassment training videos in the workplace because you want to be sure that you’re keeping your audience fully engaged in the topics that you’re teaching. This is a serious topic that, if your employees don’t fully understand, could result in significant trouble for you and for them. You want to be sure that you’ve providing training that the employee can resonate with, and that sticks with them, which means it needs to be short and very much to the point.

Focus On the Target Audience

We mentioned that sexual harassment training videos for the workplace must resonate with the employees, but to go a little further into that, it’s important for you to focus on who your employees are as you plan your training video content. You’re probably going to speak to employees at a factory with a slightly different approach than what you might use if your employees are doctors in a hospital environment. These two groups have very different levels of education, they’re in very different atmospheres, and they’re likely to encounter very different scenarios at work. You want to know that the training content you provide is appropriate for the audience that you’re teaching.

Set Clear Learning Goals & Objectives for Each Video

With each training video that you create, there should be a very clear set of goals and objectives. The goals of your training video might be to “provide sexual harassment training” whereas the objectives might be “to teach employees how to recognize sexual harassment at work,” “to teach employees the potential consequences of sexual harassment at work,” and “to teach employees what to do in the event that they believe they have been the victim of sexual harassment at work.” By having these very clear goals and objectives, you can create a very specific outline for your video that’s going to cover each of the key points that are important to the learning goals.

Choose the Most Appropriate Video Format

Producing sexual harassment training videos for the workplace does not automatically mean that you’re going to create an animated video, nor does it automatically mean that you’ll be producing an interactive video.  There are actually many options that you could consider for your training video depending on what you think is going to resonate best with your target audience. Keep in mind that sexual harassment is a very serious subject, so it’s important to keep the video focused on the seriousness of the topic, even if animations or similar techniques are utilized.

Engage with a Story

If you really want your employees to take what you teach them and run with it, consider telling  story! Sexual harassment training videos that tell a very unique and specific story are almost guaranteed to stick with your employees in a way that they’ll recall long-term. The truth is, stories are frequently used in education because they resonate with learners in such a way that makes them most likely to be later recalled. So, as you’re considering ways to incorporate sexual harassment training into a video, think about the use of a story or scenario in which a character is harassed, maybe even make the character quite similar to your employees, so that they will resonate with what you’re teaching.

Use Images Over Words

Sexual harassment training videos for the workplace should utilize images more than words. The prime purpose of video is to allow concepts to come to life through the amazing compilation of images and audio. Don’t overdo your script! Let the visuals speak for themselves. Allow your audience to immerse themselves in the training, and to feel connected to what you’re teaching. This is incredibly powerful and will help your employees to digest the concepts that you’re training on.