Amity Institute of Training & Development’s (AITD) Unconscious Bias Program will give deep knowledge to participants regarding the origination of unconscious bias and its impact on behaviour. As part of this programme, trainees will learn strategies for recognising 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 organisational culture and employee engagement.
- 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.
This Unconscious Bias Programme helps trainees learn to recognise and manage biases. Participants will acquire the skills to create an inclusive workplace through interactive discussions, case studies, and real-life examples.
The programme 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 for Your Organisation
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 mitigation 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 Organisational Culture: Organisations that acknowledge unconscious bias create a much more equitable and supportive organisational culture, which in return will lead to increased levels of employee satisfaction and retention.
- Develop skills that enable continuous self-evaluation and resolution of one's own bias and promote personal and professional development.
