Competing for a Podcast Audience

My podcast on preventing sexual harassment at work has hit 50 views. A respectable milestone that was most likely reached through my guest speakers’ followers rather than mine.

Practitioners, investigators, a police officer and an inclusion consultant joined me and my AI co-presenter Ada Multilingual to explore why sexual harassment happens and what to do about it. From the UK to USA, across industries and blue light services, to the seductive powers of boardroom leaders, it is a worthy contributor to the conversation.

At almost two hours long it is a podumentary rather than a conventional podcast on defining, preventing and investigating sexual harassment in the course of your employment. Yes, it is that big, that long and that good.

A passion project that turned into professional production worth your attention. Whether you listen to all of it, parts of it or dip in and out for background infotainment, you can learn from it. I want more views to say thank you for my guest speakers’ time and expertise.

We have multitasking lives. You can listen while working, commuting or looking for inspiration to promote your employer’s legal duty to proactively anticipate and prevent incidents, rather than reacting after sexual harassment occurs.

You can trust me, I work in HR. I am making it my mission to prevent and ideally stop unwanted conduct of a sexual nature that violates a worker’s dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.

Before you say you have it covered, read the Equality & Human Rights Commission’s technical guidance on preventing sexual harassment. It is complex and then you have your organisation’s guidance, cultures, training and approach to investigations and litigation. If sexual harassment does happen, will you learn lessons or be stuck on the naughty step?

After listening to HR and legal podcasts to help employers adapt to the new legal responsibilities, I saw a gap in the podcast market to say something different about preventing sexual harassment at work. Please listen and let me know what you think. You might find a good guest speaker, trainer or investigator.

The Economist published an article Do self-congratulating celebrities need more plaudits? The Golden Globes honour podcasts where stars praise each other. This paragraph resonated: ‘It is doubtful that most people listen to [celebrity podcasts] intently all the way through: they are background chatter as you complete boring chores. The best moments get clipped and put on YouTube shorts, where they can rack up millions of views.’

I may never get a million views and that is okay. But I deserve more interest in my work. The more people that listen the easier it is to attract guest speakers for my future episodes. I do not use social media and the LinkedIn algorithm is a mystery to me.

I launched my blog and podcast website Watching Working Living to make the world a better place. If you have something to say, let’s talk. I am not going to give up.

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