Participants in my online courses ask great questions. Here are a couple from my stop bullying in the workplace program and my answers to them. They are about false reports and how to effectively document bullying.
PS if you want to take one of these courses - here is the link: https://humanistlearning.com/category/bullyingharassment/
Question 1: What do you do with a false harassment report?
When a report is false – it tells you something valuable. Which is that – someone just made a false report.
There are a few reasons why this could be.
1. They lied.
2. They told the truth – but you just don’t know it yet
3. Something between the truth and non-truth is going on.
I would start watching and paying a bit more attention to this employee. Give them the benefit of the doubt, and see if there are other things going on. But it’s honestly not unheard of for bullies to make false reports against their targets. So – treat it as valuable information and monitor.
Just so you know though – I have a colleague who runs a reporting system for a school district. He told me that out of 2 million reports they received – only 2 were false. It does happen though.
Your goal – to know what the truth is. So – just keep focusing on that.
Question 2: How do you document bullying behavior?
Hi – I have a sample bullying documentation log at: https://bullyvaccineproject.com/courses/downloads/ free to download.
Date – when/where – who - what exactly happened – who witnessed. – who you reported it to and any documentation available to back it up.
These are mostly for your records – but can be shared with people in authority. Bullying is a pattern of behavior – so it’s important to – document that pattern.
The reporting process in most business aren’t designed to capture patterns of behavior though. They are designed for 1 off situations. That is a challenge for someone trying to prove bullying.
A log that shows the pattern is what helps people understand – this isn’t just a single incident – it’s a pattern.
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