A half-day face to face workshop to explore how unconscious bias influences our decisions – and how to manage it.
We will explore the effect of our biases on each stage of the employee life cycle and we will equip your mangers with the knowledge and techniques to identify and address un-inclusive behaviours and unintentionally poor decision-making caused by our unconscious biases.
Learning Objectives
By attending this workshop, delegates will be able to:
- Describe what unconscious biases are and how they affect our decision-making
- Understand why unconscious biases exist and where they come from
- How to exercise logical brain thinking
- How to ask respectful questions, and how to call out behaviour that is not okay, effectively
Course Overview
We build all our training programmes bespoke, so it’s down to where you want the emphasis of your workshop to be. Here is an example of what a typical course could look like, but please get in touch to tailor this for your business.
| Topic | Content |
|---|---|
| Introductions and welcome | What are unconscious biases, what do they do to our decision-making? |
| Where do our unconscious biases originate from? | Three part brain theory, understanding behaviours and reactions |
| What happens when we are discomforted by difference? | Introduction to a framework Why these reactions can be uninclusive and disrespectful (even though that’s not the intention) |
| When you think you might be exercising an unconscious bias: ‘Logical brain’ thinking | Trainer explanation of the technique and why it works |
| Spotting Unconscious biases in action | 3 Case studies to explore stages in the employee life cycle |
| Being respectfully curious about situations that concern you | Being respectfully curious A technique to say ‘that’s not okay’ A technique to manage when someone comes to you about something they’re concerned about What to do if they ask you not to do anything and ‘just keep it to yourself’ |
| Key learning points and ‘do differently’ points | How will you lead, manage, recruit, communicate and make decisions differently? |