A framework people already understand.
Personal, professional, organizational, and legal boundaries become the through-line for recognizing conduct, communicating expectations, and deciding when to act.
Overstep™ Sexual Harassment Prevention Training - Employee Edition (1 Hour)
$69.97
11-hour self-paced course
This course is focused on conflict resolution listening and processing skills, active listening, and communicating effectively with people you support during challenging situations. This course is fundamental for mediation skill development and restorative justice circles training. This course is designed to be educational, great for beginners and more experienced people, practical, engaging, and easy to complete — with automatic certificates of completion included.
✔️ 11-hour self-paced course
✔️ California DSS Certified CEUs
✔️ Covers Cultural Competency
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Overstep™ Sexual Harassment Prevention Training - Employee Edition (1 Hour)
$69.97
1-hour employee edition • harassment prevention training
Overstep™ Sexual Harassment, Workplace Boundaries & Power Dynamics
Sexual harassment training people can actually stay with. Overstep™ teaches employees how to recognize, prevent, and respond to workplace harassment by starting with something every adult already understands: boundaries—and what happens when personal, professional, organizational, or legal boundaries are crossed.
60+ minutes
Interactive scenarios
SCORM-ready
Certificate
Updated annually
4.98/5
Pilot rating from learners and reviewers
15
Industries represented in testing
13 yrs
Field-informed HR experience behind the examples
SCORM
Deploy in your LMS or use CircleUp® registration
Annual
Content review to keep the course current
Most harassment training starts with the law. Overstep starts with the moment a boundary gets crossed.
That shift matters. Instead of dropping adults into an hour of definitions, warnings, and awkward hypotheticals, Overstep™ builds a practical framework for noticing what is happening in real time: What boundary is here? What changed? What power is operating? What is the impact? What can I do next?
From there, the course connects everyday workplace judgment to the legal concepts employees still need to know—sexual harassment, sex-based harassment, discrimination, retaliation, abusive conduct, protected characteristics, reporting options, and prevention.
The examples are adapted from patterns CircleUp® has encountered across more than a decade of HR work. The result is training designed for adults across industries—not a generic corporate video people click through and forget.
The core idea
Harassment is not abstract. It is an overstep.
Overstep™ defines an overstep as crossing a personal, professional, organizational, or legal boundary in a way that creates impact on a person, relationship, or workplace. That language gives learners a usable way to recognize problems before they escalate—and a bridge into the legal standards they are required to understand.
Built to feel different
Compliance without the cringe.
The course is intentionally adult, practical, and direct. It respects the seriousness of the topic without making the learning experience stiff, theatrical, or detached from real work.
Why speaking up is not always simple.
Employees explore power dynamics, bias, fear of retaliation, conflict avoidance, and pressure to comply—so “why didn’t they just say something?” is replaced with a more accurate understanding.
Scenarios instead of lectures.
Learners identify what boundary is being crossed, what protected identities may be involved, how intent and impact differ, and what response options are available.
Inside the 1-hour course
What employees learn.
A practical path from everyday boundaries to harassment law, reporting, prevention, and response.
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Boundaries 101 What boundaries are, why they can be unspoken or subjective, and the difference between personal, professional, organizational, and legal boundaries.
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Workplace boundaries How workplace expectations, role clarity, policy, power, and context change what is appropriate at work.
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Recognizing an Overstep How to identify when a boundary has been crossed, distinguish intent from impact, and recognize patterns that may require action.
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Discrimination, harassment & sexual harassment Protected characteristics; unlawful harassment; sexual and sex-based harassment; quid pro quo; hostile work environment; and verbal, visual, physical, and digital conduct.
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Where harassment can happen In person, online, in messages, at work events, during travel, at off-site meetings, and in interactions with customers, contractors, or vendors.
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Power, bias & barriers to speaking up Power dynamics, fear of consequences, retaliation concerns, conflict avoidance, and why silence never automatically means consent or comfort.
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Reporting & anti-retaliation How reporting pathways work, why multiple avenues matter, what limited confidentiality means, and how retaliation protections support participation.
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Prevention & response Practical response choices, including interrupting, distracting, checking in, getting help, documenting concerns, and using organizational resources.
Multi-state deployment
One core course. The right compliance path for each location.
Overstep™ is built around the content areas that appear across U.S. harassment-prevention mandates, with jurisdiction-specific assignment rules and add-ons where the law requires something more than a general one-hour course.
1 HR
California nonsupervisory path
Designed around California’s one-hour interactive harassment-prevention framework for nonsupervisory employees, including practical examples, protected characteristics, sexual and sex-based harassment, retaliation, abusive conduct, gender identity/expression and sexual orientation, reporting and remedies, prevention, knowledge checks, and scenario-based application.
✓
California
1-hour employee path
For employers with 5+ employees: nonsupervisors receive at least 1 hour every 2 years; supervisors use the 2-hour edition.
✓
New York State
Annual interactive path
No minimum hour count. Annual interactive training is required, with employer policy/process details incorporated for the organization.
✓
New York City
Annual + employer process
Annual interactive training for covered employers; deployment should include the employer’s internal complaint process plus NYC, NYS, and EEOC reporting information.
✓
Illinois
Annual core path
All employers train employees annually. Restaurants and bars require an additional industry-specific supplemental training.
✓
Delaware
50+ • every 2 years
Covered employers provide interactive training; supervisors need additional supervisor-specific content, available in the 2-hour edition.
✓
Maine
15+ • new hires
New employees must receive training within one year; supervisors and managers require additional responsibilities and corrective-action content.
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Connecticut
Use 2-hour path
Covered Connecticut employers require a 2-hour employee training path. Use the 2-hour course instead:
Overstep™ Supervisor Edition.
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Chicago
Bystander hour also required
Chicago adds a separate 1-hour annual bystander requirement to the city’s 1-hour employee / 2-hour manager sexual-harassment training minimums.
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Washington
Industry-specific
Covered isolated workers in hospitality, retail, security, and property services have extra panic-button and role-specific training requirements.
+
Washington, D.C.
Tipped-wage rule
Tipped-wage businesses must use an OHR-certified trainer and follow D.C.-specific training/reporting rules. Confirm eligibility before assignment.
+
Virginia
State contractors
Certain state contractors must train annually on the contractor’s own sexual-harassment policy; CircleUp® can pair the core course with policy-specific content.
+
Puerto Rico
Protocol-specific
Employers have workplace sexual-harassment prevention and protocol obligations that should be implemented with the employer’s local policy/procedure—not treated as a generic one-hour-only assignment.
✓ means this 1-hour course is a strong fit or core path for that jurisdiction’s employee requirement. + means the course may be used but there is an extra local requirement, supplement, trainer rule, or policy configuration to address. → means this page is not the correct primary edition and the other Overstep™ course should be used.
Choose how you deploy it
One person, 5,000 people, or your own LMS.
The experience stays consistent. The delivery can match the way your organization already works.
Take it directly through CircleUp®.
Register, complete the self-paced course, satisfy the required assessment and completion steps, and receive your learner record/certificate.
Enroll nowPut Overstep™ inside your system.
For organizations that already use an LMS, request the SCORM package so employees can complete Overstep™ inside your existing training environment.
Talk to our teamAssign the right path by role and location.
Purchase seats for teams, departments, or a multi-state workforce. CircleUp® can help map employee vs. supervisor assignments and identify jurisdiction-specific needs.
Plan a rollout
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Continuing education
Earn 0.1 IACET CEU
Participants who successfully complete this qualifying one-hour learning event and its stated completion requirements may earn 0.1 IACET Continuing Education Unit, because one IACET CEU represents 10 contact hours.
CEU acceptance varies by employer, licensing board, credentialing organization, and profession. Participants should confirm acceptance with the organization that will receive the CEU record.
Accreditation statement: CircleUp Education is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard. IACET accredits the provider and its continuing-education processes; it does not individually approve or certify each CircleUp® course.
A look inside
Real situations. Real choices.
The training uses visual scenarios, reflection, and decision points to move learners from recognition to action.
Two Overstep™ editions
Give each role the training it actually needs.
1 HR
Overstep™ — Employee Edition
For nonsupervisory employees. Focuses on boundaries, recognition, sexual and sex-based harassment, discrimination, retaliation, reporting, bystander choices, prevention, and response.
2 HR
Overstep™: Supervisor Edition — Sexual Harassment, Power & the Duty to Act
Includes the employee foundation plus a second hour for supervisors and managers: receiving reports, mandatory escalation, anti-retaliation, using positional power responsibly, setting expectations, intervening, and responding to real supervisory scenarios.
Questions, answered
What HR teams usually ask.
Is Overstep™ sexual harassment training?
Yes. Overstep™ is a workplace sexual-harassment and harassment-prevention training. Its distinctive approach is to teach the legal and workplace concepts through boundaries, power dynamics, realistic scenarios, and practical response choices.
Does the 1-hour course meet California’s employee training requirement?
It is designed around California’s one-hour nonsupervisory training framework. California compliance also depends on interactive delivery, required content and activities, a qualified trainer/question process for e-learning, proper timing, and the employer’s own compliance obligations.
What about California supervisors?
California supervisors need at least two hours. Use Overstep™: Supervisor Edition — Sexual Harassment, Power & the Duty to Act.
Can we use this training nationwide?
Yes, as a core multi-state harassment-prevention course, but there is not one universal U.S. hour requirement. Some jurisdictions require a different duration, supervisor-specific content, an extra bystander module, a certified trainer, industry-specific content, or the employer’s own complaint process/policy.
Does one hour satisfy Connecticut?
No. Covered Connecticut employers require a two-hour employee training path. Use the 2-hour Overstep™ edition here.
What is different about Chicago?
Chicago requires annual sexual-harassment prevention training of at least one hour for employees and two hours for managers/supervisors, plus an additional one hour of bystander training for all employees.
Can we put Overstep™ in our LMS?
Yes. A SCORM version is available for organizational deployment. If you do not use an LMS, CircleUp® can support registration and completion through its own learning environment.
Do individual learners receive a certificate?
Yes. Learners who satisfy the course completion requirements receive completion documentation. Organizations using their own LMS can also track completion inside their system, depending on their LMS setup.
Does Overstep™ offer IACET CEUs?
This one-hour qualifying learning event offers 0.1 IACET CEU to participants who meet the stated completion requirements. CircleUp Education is an IACET Accredited Provider.
Is the course only for office workers?
No. Overstep™ is designed for adults across industries. The core concepts—boundaries, power, harassment, reporting, retaliation, bystander choices, and response—apply across workplace settings.
How often is the content updated?
CircleUp® reviews and updates Overstep™ annually so examples, terminology, legal references, and the learning experience can stay current.
Can we add our own harassment policy and reporting contacts?
Yes—and in several jurisdictions, that employer-specific information is essential. For organizational deployments, CircleUp® can discuss how to incorporate or pair your internal policy, complaint pathways, HR contacts, and required local reporting resources with the core course.
Can we buy seats in bulk?
Yes. Bulk-seat, team, enterprise, and SCORM conversations are handled directly with CircleUp®. Use the scheduler below for a 30-minute rollout conversation or send the inquiry form.
For HR, People Ops & organizational buyers
Bring Overstep™ to your organization.
Tell us where your employees work, who needs the training, and how you want to deliver it. We’ll help you map the 1-hour employee path, 2-hour supervisor path, SCORM deployment, bulk seats, and any jurisdiction-specific needs.
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Give people a way to understand workplace boundaries, recognize sexual harassment, and know what to do next—without making the room shut down.
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