Managing Bias Refresher

Bias influences everyday decisions in ways employees may not even notice. Left unchecked, it affects hiring, promotions, and workplace relationships. This microlesson offers skills training to help employees manage bias, recognize blind spots, and make more equitable decisions at work.

Microlesson Description

The Managing Bias Refresher microlesson is intended to follow our full-length Managing Bias Training Course. The lesson includes information around blindspots, recruitment practices and performance management, along with 4 video scenarios and multiple employee sentiment survey questions. Our brains are hardwired to function with inherent bias, so don't let it damage your workplace culture.

Key Concepts

• How our brains are hardwired to pattern match to quickly make decisions.
• Ways we can pause and use respectful curiosity to avoid relying on stereotypes.
• Using a consistent process, with clear criteria, and applying it to all people decisions, counter-balances pattern matching.
• Adopting these habits diminishes the negative impact of unconscious bias.

Microlesson Features

• Employee sentiment pulsing questions that provide leaders with insights into their workforce's core cultural competencies
• Emtrain's Expert Answers tool, enabling employeees to submit anonymous questions about sensitive issues.

• Rich, contemporary video scences illustrating key concepts through realistic scenarios
• A data driven, skill-based approach to eLearning that establishes a shared language for employees.

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