Unconscious Bias in the Workplace: Building a More Respectful, Inclusive & Effective Workplace
Today's workplace is increasingly diverse, multi-cultural, and multi-generational. While differences in backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and communication styles can be a tremendous strength, they can also create misunderstandings, interpersonal conflict, and unintended bias.
HR Learning Center's Unconscious Bias Training Seminar provides managers and employees with a practical understanding of unconscious bias and how it can influence workplace interactions, perceptions, and employment decisions. Participants will learn how their own assumptions and perceptions may affect the way they communicate, evaluate, manage, and make decisions involving employees and colleagues.
The goal is not to suggest that people can eliminate every unconscious bias. Rather, this training provides practical strategies for recognizing and managing bias so that it is less likely to influence workplace behavior and employment decisions.
The seminar also examines how unconscious bias can contribute to discrimination, harassment, stereotyping, and workplace conflict, and provides practical guidance for creating a respectful workplace where employees are evaluated based on their qualifications, performance, and contributions, not assumptions or stereotypes.
Managers will learn how to better understand and appreciate cultural, ethnic, and generational differences while recognizing the value that diverse perspectives can bring to an organization. They will also learn practical communication and decision-making strategies designed to reduce bias, strengthen workplace relationships, and promote a culture of respect.
Why Unconscious Bias Training Matters
Unconscious bias can influence seemingly routine workplace decisions and interactions, from hiring, assignments, performance evaluations, promotions, and discipline to how managers communicate with and respond to employees.
By understanding how bias can affect perceptions and decision-making, managers can become more intentional in their actions and better equipped to make fair, objective, and legally sound employment decisions.
Some of the Many Practical Skills You Will Learn:
- Recognize unconscious bias and understand how it can influence workplace interactions and decisions
- Understand the factors that shape our perceptions and assumptions about others
- Identify how unconscious bias can affect hiring, performance evaluations, promotions, discipline, assignments, and other employment decisions
- Learn practical strategies for recognizing and managing your own unconscious biases
- Understand the difference between intent and impact in workplace interactions
- Identify and avoid stereotypes and assumptions that can negatively affect employees
- Develop communication strategies for effectively managing a diverse and multi-generational workforce
- Reduce interpersonal conflict by understanding and appreciating workplace differences
- Learn strategies for increasing respect, inclusion, and effective communication
- Understand how cultural, ethnic, and generational differences can be viewed as strengths rather than obstacles
- Recognize situations in which unconscious bias may affect workplace relationships and decision-making
- Improve workplace decision-making by using objective, consistent, and job-related criteria
- Understand how unconscious bias can contribute to discrimination and harassment
- Review key legal principles involving workplace discrimination and harassment
- Learn practical strategies for preventing discrimination and harassment claims
- Develop strategies for creating and maintaining a respectful workplace
- Understand the challenges of addressing unconscious bias and learn practical ways to reduce its influence
- Learn how to recognize and manage unconscious bias when working with clients, consultants, vendors, and other outside business partners
HR Learning Center's Unconscious Bias Training Seminar Includes:
- Live training conducted by an experienced employment law attorney and HR professional
- Interactive, practical instruction focused on real-world workplace situations
- PowerPoint presentation for easy reference
- Comprehensive handouts and training materials
- Certificate of Attendance
- Question and Answer Session
Contact us to learn more about HR Learning Center's Unconscious Bias training seminars/webinars.