Unconscious Bias Trainings
Become more aware of your unconscious biases and make better, more objective decisions!
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Unconscious Bias Basics
In this unconscious bias training, your employees will gain fundamental neuroscientific background knowledge about how our brains work and the significance of unconscious bias for our daily interactions. We constantly make decisions that occur completely unconsciously. The human brain cannot consciously process the flood of information it receives (approx. 11 million pieces per second!). Thus, our subconscious mind makes countless decisions for us based on our socialization, cultural environment, or personal experiences.
Even though this process is “essential for survival,” unconscious biases can have a very detrimental effect in the workplace, where decisions should be made rationally and objectively—for example, to accurately assess employees’ potential and ideas.
By raising awareness of the phenomenon of “unconscious bias” and exploring alternative ways of thinking, your employees will be able to reduce their own biases in the future and thus avoid misjudgments and errors in reasoning that negatively impact the company’s success.
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Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
Are you certain that, as a recruitment professional or manager, you make objective decisions when selecting personnel and evaluate candidates solely based on their qualifications and value to the company?
Nowhere is the power of unconscious cognitive processes more evident than in recruiting. The risk of making decisions that negatively impact team performance and the overall organizational culture is particularly high.
We are happy to tailor the training to the aspects most relevant to your organisation. This may include specific stages of the recruitment process or employee lifecycle (e.g., candidate screening, promotion decisions), as well as particular forms of bias, such as gender bias or age bias. In this way, the training can also support your broader sustainability and diversity goals, including SDG 5 on gender equality.
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Unconscious Bias in Leadership
Who do you enjoy listening to? Whose ideas and advice do you take most seriously, and in what context? How do you provide feedback?
In this Unconscious Bias Training, we focus on three key aspects of everyday leadership: how information is perceived and processed, how decisions are made in complex situations, and how leaders respond to consensus, dissent and critical perspectives. We explore how different types of bias, such as affinity bias or the Pygmalion effect, can influence these processes.
Participants learn practical strategies to identify and mitigate the influence of unconscious bias, enabling them to assess available information more deliberately and reduce the risk of misjudgments from the outset of the decision-making process.
These include how you absorb and process information, decision-making in complex situations, and how you handle conformist and critical opinions. You will learn how to neutralize the influence of unconscious bias to ensure the most objective assessment of available information right from the start of a decision-making process.
Feedback, as an important leadership tool, is also subject to numerous cognitive biases, and there is a high probability that your feedback is influenced more by your unconscious biases than by objective facts about the person’s performance. Objective, fair feedback supports employees and teams in realizing their full performance and development potential. In our training, you will learn what to look for when giving and receiving feedback, and which unconscious cognitive biases can distort your performance evaluations.
You will reflect on your most significant leadership biases, practice methods for “managing” them, and receive tips for bias-free and inclusive leadership.
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Unconscious Bias in Diverse Teams
Have you ever put together a team for a new project? Did you select team members based on objective criteria such as professional expertise, availability, and experience? Were you barely aware that factors such as personal rapport, similarities in thinking and approach, or rewards or punishments for past behavior might have played a significant role?
Do you often make decisions as a group within your team? Do you believe that group decisions are of higher quality than individual decisions? How do you gather the opinions of your colleagues? What opportunities for feedback are available to each individual? When making decisions in teams, different perspectives and opinions always come together. Groups often exhibit a stronger tendency toward consensus or toward more extreme positions, which can influence decisions.
In this Unconscious Bias Training, you will learn which biases are typically amplified and which are reduced when forming teams and during team decision-making, and what practical implications this has. The focus is on the effects of various biases on facilitation and discussion techniques, leadership methods, feedback rules, and methods of information structuring.
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Unconscious Bias and Self-Management
What were the three most important factors behind the success or failure of your last project or work task? What criteria do you use when delegating responsibilities? Who do you prefer to work with? Which working and organisational styles appeal to you, and how do these preferences affect teamwork?
Numerous cognitive biases can manifest in our self-perception, such as the fundamental attribution error, risk aversion, hindsight bias, and many others, which can have a negative impact on professional development. Likewise, the numerous decisions that are very often made intuitively in everyday professional life are subject to these biases.
The goal of this unconscious bias training is to learn how these biases influence your professional decisions, your work style, and your public image, as well as your personal and professional development, and to explore strategies for reducing these cognitive distortions.
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Unconscious Bias and Feedback
Whether you provide feedback as a manager or as a team member, there is a good chance that it says as much about you as it does about the person receiving it.
What should you keep in mind when giving feedback? Which unconscious cognitive biases might distort your assessments and feedback? How do your expectations affect the performance of employees or colleagues? And which criteria do you use when encouraging and challenging them?
In this Unconscious Bias Training, you will explore how different biases can influence feedback conversations, which is an increasingly important aspect of today’s agile work environments. You will learn how to recognise and mitigate their influence, reducing the risk that personal experiences and attitudes distort both the feedback you give and the way you interpret feedback from others.
This contributes to a transparent feedback culture in which feedback is not limited to formal performance reviews but becomes part of everyday work. In this way, you can build mutual trust and foster both individual and team development.
The training focuses on various cognitive biases, such as the halo effect and affinity bias.
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