Rupert Picardo · PoSH & Compliance · March 2026
The typical delivery — a 90-minute PowerPoint session, a sign-off sheet, an annual repetition — meets the legal threshold of the PoSH Act 2013 but produces no lasting change in how employees or managers understand or respond to sexual harassment in the workplace. Effective PoSH training recognises ambiguous behaviours, trains witnesses and managers on specific responses, and builds ICC capability beyond constitution on paper.
The compliance checkbox problem
Legal compliance and behavioural change are different standards. Organisations optimising only for the former get exactly what they optimise for — documentation without transformation.
What effective programmes do
They create recognition of genuinely ambiguous situations, develop responses for bystanders and managers, and equip Internal Committees to run investigations competently — not just constitutionally.