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About the Unconscious Bias Program
Amity Institute of Training & Development’s (AITD) Unconscious Bias Program will give deep knowledge to participants regarding origination of unconscious bias and their impact on behavior. As part of this program, participants will learn strategies for recognizing personal biases, the way it affects workplace interactions and how to reduce the influences of such biases. As a final step, participants are going to explore the overall impact of unconscious bias upon organizational culture and employee engagement.
Why This Training
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Practical Learning Approach – Hands-on training with real-case applications.
Flexible Learning Options – Online, offline, and hybrid formats available.
Global Recognition – Certification from a trusted and reputed institution.
Industry-Relevant Skills – Gain expertise tailored to real-world industry needs.
Expert-Led Training – Learn from top professionals and subject matter experts.
Career Advancement – Boost your career prospects with in-demand knowledge.
Practical Learning Approach – Hands-on training with real-case applications.
Flexible Learning Options – Online, offline, and hybrid formats available.
Global Recognition – Certification from a trusted and reputed institution.
Our Training Methodologies
Our experiential training methodology is based on systematic, theoretical analysis of the methods applied to the course content. Our methodologies include:
Course Objectives
After completing the Unconscious Bias Program, participants are going to learn and acquire the following course objectives:
- Understand unconscious bias as a concept affecting the culture at work and decisions.
- Know types of unconscious bias, including: affinity bias, confirmation bias, and gender bias.
- Develop ways to recognize and manage bias in everyday issues and in the decision-making processes.
- Discover how unconscious biases are played out in recruitment, promotion, performance review, and teamwork.
- Learn to work towards an inclusive and fairer workplace through minimizing unconscious bias.
Program Description
This Unconscious Bias Program helps participants learn to recognize and manage biases. Participants will acquire the skills to create an inclusive workplace through interactive discussions, case studies, and real-life examples.
The Program Covers:
- Unconscious Bias: A module that talks about the science of unconscious bias and how it functions on perception and decisions.
- Common Biases: Different kinds of unconscious biases are briefed upon, including affinity bias, halo effect, and confirmation bias.
- Biases in Decision Making: Techniques to reduce unconscious bias in recruitment, performance review, and promotions
- Inclusive Teams: Inclusive teams are created by enhancing the awareness and understanding of unconscious biases.
- Practical Exercises: Role-play scenarios and self-assessment tools that will lead participants to understand their personal biases and ways to handle them.
What You'll Learn?
- Have a good understanding of science that drives unconscious biases, how they impact behavior
- Be able to recognize individual biases and know how to affect relationships with colleagues and team members
- Get techniques for mitigating bias in hiring, promotion, and other important HR functions.
- Develop skills for an inclusive workplace culture by reducing unconscious biases.
- Engage in self-assessment exercises that encourage reflection and growth.
Program Benefits
The Unconscious Bias Program arms participants with the tools and knowledge needed to promote inclusivity and reduce the negative impacts of bias:
- Increased Awareness: Participants gain a better understanding of their own unconscious biases and how these biases influence their actions.
- Better Decision Making Through recognition and mitigating of the biases, participants make a more objective and fair choice.
- Better Team Dynamics Since unconscious biases are addressed to make the environment more inclusive, collaboration and trust inside teams improve.
- Stronger Organizational Culture Organizations that acknowledge unconscious bias create much more equitable and supportive organizational culture, which in return will lead to increased levels of employee satisfaction and retention.
- Develop Skills that enable continuous self-evaluation and resolution of own bias, promote personal and professional development.
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Frequently Asked Question
Get answers to commonly asked questions about Amity.
What is unconscious bias?
Unconscious bias represents automatic judgments or stereotypes used in making judgments and decisions without conscious thought, thereby affecting our judgment or action.
How does unconscious bias affect the workplace?
It usually involves hiring, performance review, promotions, and teams, which leads to a lack of equality in the opportunities given and limited diversity.
Can unconscious bias be changed?
Biases are human by nature, but their awareness and mitigation can occur. In this way, there can be conscious action toward intentional strategies that may counter the effects of unconscious bias within one's decision.
What are a few examples of unconscious bias?
A few examples of unconscious bias are affinity bias, or liking those who are like us; confirmation bias, looking for information that confirms what we already believe; and gender bias, assuming the role of a person based on their gender.