UNCONSCIOUS BIAS

Target Audience

This course is suitable for anybody who wants to better understand unconscious bias and how it can impact decision making. It would be particularly beneficial for managers and supervisors.

Course outline

Fully online course and assessment with no time limits

We all have unconscious bias. Our background, society and culture, stereotypes, and the media all influence how our brain makes judgements and assessments of people and situations. While this can be beneficial in speeding up our decision making, it can have a detrimental impact on our personal and working lives.

This Unconscious Bias training will give you the skills that you need to recognise your own prejudgements and learn how to manage them. It will explain the types of bias, how they can impact your life, and give you techniques to stop them from taking control. By the end of the training, you will be confident in identifying and overcoming your own implicit biases.

Course Content

• What is Unconscious Bias? - Defining unconscious bias, types of unconscious bias, and positive bias.

• Unconscious Bias at Work -The impact of unconscious bias, hiring and recruitment, performance evaluations, and promotions and opportunities.

• How to Overcome Unconscious Bias - Benefits of diversity, controlling unconscious bias, identifying unconscious bias, implicit association test, steps to overcome bias, combating your bias, and case studies.

Aims of the course

Upon completion of this course, you will:

• Understand the difference between unconscious bias, prejudice and stereotyping, and understand the different types of bias.

• Be aware of the impact unconscious bias can have on the workplace, from recruitment to job progression and marketing.

• Develop the skills needed to overcome unconscious bias by understanding how to consciously make changes and break old habits.

Assessment

The online assessment is taken on completion of the training material. You will be asked 10 multiple choice questions with a pass mark of 80%.

Cost: £25 per delegate

Facilitator: High Speed Training

Once you have booked onto the course, you will be sent a username and password that will give you instant access to your training.

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