Overcoming Your Own Unconscious Biases


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level



Overview/Description
Each of us is a member of a society that is often partitioned into groups and tribes. While this is common to most societies, it can have harmful effects in the workplace, interfering with productivity and organizational success. We all hold biases, whether conscious or unconscious. Part of understanding the role of unconscious bias in the workplace is admitting to yourself that you, too, hold biases. Once accepted, you can take an anti-bias approach to overcoming unconscious prejudice. In this course, you'll learn how to recognize your own unconscious and implicit bias and how they can fall prey to social stereotypes.

Target Audience
Team leaders, supervisors, and managers; anyone who wants to learn how to address unconscious biases in the workplace

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
0.4

Lesson Objectives

Overcoming Your Own Unconscious Biases

  • identify how to recognize your unconscious biases
  • identify tactics for observing your own unconscious biases
  • recognize how to overcome unconscious bias by forming relationships with others
  • identify guidelines for avoiding unconscious bias when making decisions
  • identify the tactics for combating bias revival
  • recognize the process for overcoming your unconscious biases
  • Course Number:
    apd_14_a02_bs_enus

    Expertise Level
    Everyone