This workshop offers an introduction to how human beings operate with unconscious bias.

Description
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 giving people access to a more extensive set of choices to reach their intended outcomes.

Experiential learning is an integral component of 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 will reduce biases in decision-making. Participants have many opportunities to directly experience their unconscious bias and priming bias. They will have an opportunity to take a firmly held assumption and deconstruct it using deductive reasoning.

Learning Objectives
In this initial workshop, participants will learn about unconscious bias and how it affects their workplace relationships and decision-making.

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.
• 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?