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Club staff to tackle conduct course
Kelly Burke Workplace
May 10, 2011
Todd Greenberg ... "building a much more resilient club." Photo: Anthony Johnson
FIRST it was the players who were targeted, and now it is the administration staff.
The chief executive officer of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Todd Greenberg, will today run his entire off-field team through a pilot course educating them on the consequences of mixing work with alcohol, drugs and sex. Other National Rugby League clubs are expected to follow suit.
Managers, coaches, physiothe******s and accountants - about 50 Bulldogs staff in total - will attend the course, the first of its kind tailored to fit the administrative arm of a rugby league club, where the lines between business and pleasure are frequently blurred.
The players have already been put through programs dealing with everything from sexual violence to depression after a long run of scandals in recent years.
Mr Greenberg said it was less about giving the club an added layer of legal protection than about drumming home to staff the importance of personal responsibility and accountability.
''We're not just about wins and losses on the field; we're in the business of building a much more resilient club … where the receptionist is as important as the halfback.''
The chief executive of the NRL, David Gallop, said he expected to introduce the program, which deals with issues of sexual assault and harassment, excessive drinking, drug use and inappropriate use of social media, into other clubs soon.
''People like to classify these things as sports issues, but this [program] demonstrates it can happen anywhere,'' Mr Gallop said. ''It's just that the public focus may not be as acute in other workplaces as it is in ours.''
The program, called Putting Workplaces in the Picture, was developed by a Queensland lawyer, Adair Donaldson, and stems from an earlier behaviour-education project he set up for teenagers in which all 16 NRL clubs took part.
Mr Donaldson said recent scandals in the Australian Defence Force and at the department store chain David Jones showed no business was immune from issues such as sexual harassment and abuse.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/club-staff-to-tackle-conduct-course-20110509-1efvn.html#ixzz1Ls3qnzZD
Kelly Burke Workplace
May 10, 2011
Todd Greenberg ... "building a much more resilient club." Photo: Anthony Johnson
FIRST it was the players who were targeted, and now it is the administration staff.
The chief executive officer of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Todd Greenberg, will today run his entire off-field team through a pilot course educating them on the consequences of mixing work with alcohol, drugs and sex. Other National Rugby League clubs are expected to follow suit.
Managers, coaches, physiothe******s and accountants - about 50 Bulldogs staff in total - will attend the course, the first of its kind tailored to fit the administrative arm of a rugby league club, where the lines between business and pleasure are frequently blurred.
The players have already been put through programs dealing with everything from sexual violence to depression after a long run of scandals in recent years.
Mr Greenberg said it was less about giving the club an added layer of legal protection than about drumming home to staff the importance of personal responsibility and accountability.
''We're not just about wins and losses on the field; we're in the business of building a much more resilient club … where the receptionist is as important as the halfback.''
The chief executive of the NRL, David Gallop, said he expected to introduce the program, which deals with issues of sexual assault and harassment, excessive drinking, drug use and inappropriate use of social media, into other clubs soon.
''People like to classify these things as sports issues, but this [program] demonstrates it can happen anywhere,'' Mr Gallop said. ''It's just that the public focus may not be as acute in other workplaces as it is in ours.''
The program, called Putting Workplaces in the Picture, was developed by a Queensland lawyer, Adair Donaldson, and stems from an earlier behaviour-education project he set up for teenagers in which all 16 NRL clubs took part.
Mr Donaldson said recent scandals in the Australian Defence Force and at the department store chain David Jones showed no business was immune from issues such as sexual harassment and abuse.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/club-staff-to-tackle-conduct-course-20110509-1efvn.html#ixzz1Ls3qnzZD
