This workshop offers an introduction to how human beings operate with unconscious bias. Participants learn how bias impacts workplace relationships and decision-making and are provided tools to mitigate bias with the self, teams, and the enterprise. After this session, participants can return to their workplace and make changes.

Research on decision-making reveals that when individuals are highly aware of their decision-making process, they can see how non-determinant data influences their thinking. This awareness improves decision-making by developing a more extensive set of choices to reach intended outcomes.

Experiential learning is integral to the workshop and the participants’ learning experience. This session includes simulated experiences that transform participant behaviors through awareness. The experiential learning model builds insights by having participants do the actions in a training space that reduces biases in decision-making. Participants have many opportunities to experience their unconscious bias and priming bias directly. They can take a firmly held assumption and deconstruct it using deductive reasoning.

Time Requirement
60, 75, or 90 Minutes. Portions are removed depending on the allotted time.

Learning Objectives
Through this workshop, participants will:
• Learn how priming bias works;
• See how bias can affect their choices at work;
• Conduct a personal social network analysis;
• Develop new practices and skills to minimize bias in business decisions;
• Learn how unconscious bias affects diversity and business strategy and
• Develop a business case to integrate diversity strategy throughout the organization.

Participants will explore the following questions:
• What is unconscious bias?
• How does unconscious bias affect our lives and the workplace?
• What biases do I have?
• What tools are available to me to reduce the effects of bias in my workplace?