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The Golden Rule: Building Respect within the Workplace

Madecraft

The Golden Rule: Building Respect within the Workplace

Madecraft

Instructor: Madecraft

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4 hours to complete
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

4 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Recognize and address disrespectful workplace behaviors and understand the power dynamics and unconscious biases that fuel them.

  • Apply practical tools as an empowered bystander and team member to intervene effectively and foster a culture of respect in any workplace setting.

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June 2026

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Disrespect at work is more common and more costly than most people realize, and much of it goes unaddressed because people can't agree on what it even looks like. In this module, you'll sharpen your ability to define respect and its opposite, recognize legally significant categories of discrimination, bullying, and harassment, and practice identifying these behaviors in realistic workplace scenarios so you can name them and take action.

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5 videos1 reading1 assignment

Your brain shortcuts information constantly, and some of those shortcuts quietly shape decisions about who gets hired, promoted, and heard. In this module, you'll examine how unconscious bias forms and operates in your own mind, trace its effects across real workplace decisions, and apply two concrete techniques (accommodation and mitigation) to interrupt biased thinking before it affects how you treat the people around you.

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3 videos1 reading1 assignment

Power shapes every interaction at work, including who speaks, who gets heard, and who gets overlooked, but the forces driving that dynamic are rarely as visible as the org chart suggests. In this module, you'll examine how positional and personal power operate differently, identify the motivations behind the behaviors you see in your team, and apply five concrete strategies for building the kind of healthy, respectful dynamics that let everyone contribute at their best.

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3 videos1 reading1 assignment

Strong emotions are a normal part of workplace life, but unmanaged they can set back months of progress in a single meeting. In this module, you'll develop the skills to identify the warning signs of your own strong emotions before they surface in harmful ways, recognize the five most disruptive emotions that appear in workplace settings, and apply four practical techniques for helping yourself and others respond to difficult feelings in ways that protect both relationships and results.

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2 videos1 assignment

Most workplace disrespect has witnesses. What it often lacks is someone willing to act, and in this module, you'll examine what stops bystanders from intervening, learn the four conditions that signal it's time to step in, choose between four practical intervention techniques, and build a verbal repertoire of specific, tested phrases for use with both the person who behaved badly and the person who was affected, so you can make a real difference in the moment.

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3 videos1 reading1 assignment

Knowing what respect looks like is not the same as consistently showing it. In this module, you'll move from understanding to habit by applying eight daily actions that build a respectful workplace from the inside out and working through a four-step framework for creating and sustaining the kind of diverse environment where those actions mean the most. This is where the course becomes personal: not what you know, but what you do.

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3 videos2 assignments

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