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A Humanistic Approach to Civility & Dignity in the Workplace

How to maintain your dignity in difficult situations.

Created byJennifer Hancock
BeginnerUpdated Feb 3, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleUnderstand the difference between civility and dignity
  • check_circleWhy civility is a problematic concept and often counter productive to creating cohesive and effective work groups
  • check_circleHow to think about giving and getting dignity
  • check_circleHow to deal with perceived dignity violations so you can move on to effective problem solving.

About This Course

In this program we will talk about what civility is and why it’s beneficial to you – as an individual to behave in a professional dignified manner with others. And how to maintain your dignity in difficult situations.

This program is broken into two sections. The first discusses civility as a concept, covering the problems and difficulties of using civility as a metric. The second section discussed how to use dignity as a value in the workplace to improve interpersonal relationships and problem solving. The goal is to help people understand how to deal effectively with stress and difficult people while still behaving ethically and problem solving effectively.

Course Content

3 activities • 8 videos • duration: 1h 15m

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Lesson 1: A Humanistic Approach to Civility Not completed: Lesson 1: A Humanistic Approach to Civility4 videos • 26 min
  • videocamWhat is Civility
    Duration 2:30
  • videocamUnderstanding Civility
    Duration 8:20
  • videocamThe Problem with Enforcing Civility
    Duration 8:32
  • videocamFree Speech, Dissent and Civility
    Duration 6:55
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Lesson 2: Using Dignity to Create Civility4 videos • 48 min
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Final Assessment1 quiz

Your Instructor

Jennifer Hancock

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Jennifer Hancock is the author of several books and founder of Humanist Learning Systems. She is considered one of the top speakers and writers in the world of Humanism today and specializes in programs involving applied behavioral techniques focusing primarily on how to stop bullying and harassment using science. Her insights on how to combine philosophy and science to help solve our problems more effectively have helped countless people all over the world.

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What Students Are Saying

4.6 out of 5
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    Karen R.
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    Excellent course with many practical examples.

  • JM
    JOHN M.
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    Something I hadn't really thought about before but made total sense

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