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Medeiros and Griffith (2019) addressed practical challenges in implementing sexual harassment (SH) training and proposed several recommendations to improve training effectiveness, particularly in light of the recent #metoo movement. Although we agree that SH training should be preventive, and that both internal and external factors must be considered to ensure training effectiveness, we propose that one perspective that the authors did not consider is bystanders’ (i.e., observers’) roles in SH incidents. In this commentary, we offer empirically supported, practical suggestions for the design and application of an effective bystander intervention (BI) training that can be incorporated into regular victimand perpetrator-targeted SH training. Furthermore, although we acknowledge that SH and sexual assault exist on a continuum of sex-based mistreatment and violent behaviors (Fitzgerald, 1993), we focus on SH in this commentary because it is more often witnessed by a third party.