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Overview
The commitments and actions that senior executives and board members make are critical to changing the attitudes, behaviours and structures that drive violence against women.
Engaging leaders is therefore vital for ensuring that efforts to achieve equality and respect are successful and sustained.
The resources on this page will support you to engage leaders, create leadership commitments and define what actions leaders and senior executives can take.
Creating a safe, gender equal and respectful workplace starts with leadership setting clear expectations for acceptable behaviour and reinforcing communication to help employees understand and address issues.
This toolkit is for anyone tasked with promoting gender equality and respect in their workplace.
Engaging leaders toolkit
The toolkit includes two parts:
- A tip sheet focused on gaining leadership support for promoting gender equality and respect in the workplace. This is for HR, People and Culture, or Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) managers.
- Handouts that HR, People and Culture, or DEI managers can give leaders so support them with practical steps to embed gender equality and respect in business practices.
Read the tip sheet first, then share the handouts with your leadership champions.
Actions for senior executives
What senior executives communicate to their employees and stakeholders and how they do it significantly shapes people’s attitudes to sexual harassment.
This guide shares actions for senior executives to take in order to prevent and mitigate the risks of sexual harassment in their workplaces.
Preventing sexual harassment: Actions for senior executives
Actions leaders can take
Leadership teams set the tone for workplace culture. This resource is a one-page overview of actions leaders can take.
