Unconscious Bias

How to eliminate prejudice in your organisation and create a fair and inclusive working environment

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4

- Understand why humans are biased and are naturally built to stereotype
- Appreciate the relationship between bias and stereotypes
- prejudice and discrimination
- Assess the impact of bias on their decision-making
- behaviour and relationships

What you'll learn

Understand why humans are biased and are naturally built to stereotype
Appreciate the relationship between bias and stereotypes
prejudice and discrimination
Assess the impact of bias on their decision-making
behaviour and relationships
Identify their own biases and take action to compensate for them
Understand what can be done by employers to tackle bias at an organisational level

* Requirements

* The course does not require learners to have any specific software
* just basic computer-operating skills.
* No special materials or prior knowledge necessary - everything is provided.

Description

Getting to grips with our unconscious bias is a critical step in creating a fair and inclusive workplace. Produced in partnership with leading UK business psychology consultancy Pearn Kandola, this course looks at why bias develops, its impact on the workplace and what we can do to tackle it at both an individual and organisational level.

No matter how open-minded we might like to think we are, we are all inherently biased. These biases develop over the course of our lives as a result of the influences of our friends and family, our personal experiences, our cultural background and external influences such as the media. While we may be largely unaware of them, they can exert a powerful influence on how we interact with those around us and the decisions that we make about people and situations.

This course combines original drama and expert analysis to provide psychological insights into how our own behaviour might be affected by bias and looks at what we can do to reduce or eliminate its influence on our working relationships and the decisions that we make. Suitable for teams of all types, the course has been designed to help people at all levels including operational managers and staff, HR managers and trainers and senior executives and business leaders.  

This course will give a better understanding of: 

- Why humans are biased
- The relationship between bias, prejudice and discrimination
- How unconscious bias can impact on the workplace and on working relationships
- What we can do to reduce or eliminate bias from our decision-making process
- How to identify and address bias in specific situations, such as recruitment.



Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to understand the nature of unconscious bias and how it might impact on their decisions and relationships, both in the workplace and beyond.
  • The course will be of particular interest to managers, team leaders and business owners who wish to improve diversity and inclusion in their organisation.

Course content

5 sections • 12 lectures

Welcome and introduction Preview 02:52

An introduction to the subject of unconscious bias and the experts who will be guiding you through the course.

An introduction to unconscious bias Preview 03:14

This lecture looks at what unconscious bias is and why it develops.

What do you see? Preview 04:00

This lecture looks at a number of illusions and shows how our brains are hard-wired to take shortcuts based on what we 'think' we know.

Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination Preview 03:31

This lecture looks at the role that bias plays in the development of stereotypes and examines the relationship between stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination.

Types of bias Preview 04:22

This lecture looks at some common types of bias and how they can impact on our relationships and decision-making.

Gender bias in recruitment - drama scenario Preview 04:12

This lecture examines how gender bias can impact on the recruitment process and the negative consequences that biased recruitment decisions can have for an organisation.

Drama scenario analysis and alternative approach Preview 02:20

In this lecture we analyse the scenario depicting gender bias in recruitment and consider an alternative approach.

Unconscious bias at work Preview 04:56

This lecture looks at the impact that bias can have in the workplace on key processes such as recruitment and performance assessment and explains how bias can often manifest itself in small 'micro-behaviours'.

Just another day in the office - drama scenario Preview 04:22

In this lecture we see a dramatised scenario of a team at work where various different examples of bias are apparent.

Tackling unconscious bias Preview 04:59

In this lecture we examine the dramatised scenario and identify the different instances of bias and apply this learning to how we can go about identifying and tackling bias in our organisation.

Conclusion Preview 02:18

In this final lecture, we recap on the importance of tackling bias both at an individual and organisational level and the positive impact that reducing or eliminating bias can have for both businesses and employees.

Assessment quiz