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Unconscious Bias Training
Our unconscious bias training has been created to identify, challenge, and reduce unconscious bias in the workplace. This online unconscious bias course is CPD accredited and IIRSM approved and is suitable for use in all industries. Upon completing our unconscious bias course, employees will understand the most common types of biases, as well as the negative impacts that unconscious bias can have on an organisation. Workplaces with less bias tend to cultivate fairer, more diverse, and open cultures.
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Learning outcomes
- Understand what the most common types of unconscious bias are and how the mind works to form these
- Learn to train your mind to reduce bias and understand the dangers of allowing yourself to make assumptions
- Understand the negative impact unconscious bias' can have on organisations
Covered in this course
Course contents
This training course is broken down into 2 sections
- 1 Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
- 2 Strategies for Reducing Bias
SECTION 1
This first section goes into what unconscious biases are, the common types, and how they are formed. It looks at how the mind works, how it stores information, and how it creates negative biases. There’s also a couple of little training exercises to get you thinking about yourself and your workplace!
SECTION 2
Now we look at the four key areas for tackling bias - self-awareness, acknowledging bias, challenging bias, and training our minds to think differently. We look at stereotyping, body language (micro-actions), and the dangers of making assumptions.
About this course
Cases of Unconscious Bias happen every single day in UK workplaces and they can have a seriously negative impact on staff morale and productivity. We are unaware of our unconscious biases but they are stored away in our minds and still affect the way we think and how we behave.
An example of a common unconscious bias is Conformity Bias, which is when we behave similarly to others in a group, even if it goes against what we actually believe.
This Unconscious Bias Training has been created to identify your own unconscious biases as well as any others that already exist in your workplace. It looks at things such as how they affect workplace relationships, decision-making, and workplace culture.
This course works in conjunction with our unconscious bias for management course. It’s also the perfect partner for both equality, diversity & inclusion training and bullying & harassment for employees courses.
All of these training courses are available online for your convenience and can be completed on any device, at any time.
Presented by
Nadira TudorThe importance of Unconscious Bias Training
It’s important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.
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Unconscious Bias Training certificate
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Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Unconscious Bias Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your Unconscious Bias Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
2,401 real user reviews
To the point
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
basically don't stereotype
30 minutes just to say don't stereotype
Self explanatory
Something I have ever thought about, very interesting.
Eye opening course
This course provides lots of interesting information, excellent advice and food for thought in acknowledging and reducing bias. Who knew how much the mind could process in just 1 second!
Tricky
In depth course but needs concentration. Unconscious Bias is a complicated topic to understand
Course doesn't quite work
My user access level should have streaming video privilege, but even though my headset was plugged in, nothing was muted for Windows, and the compatible browser tab has audio icon, the video player simply does not output audio, forcing me to look at transcript / closed-captions. It is also very inconvenient to review each "slide" because the video player does not allow basic functions like jumping back and forth or adjusting playback speed. The estimated time to complete the test was inaccurate due to the sheer quantity of questions, so course actually pushes 40+ min. even if one intended to fully focus and blitz through everything.Minor nitpicks include way too many occurrences of capitalized words, not using the Oxford comma, and a massive UI when maximized that essentially forces the user to zoom out of the page or browse windowed instead.Props for including things like Horns effect or Halo effect though. I recently learned about the concept of situational disability so maybe that can be included as one of the biases.
clean, informative, well-structured
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Very useful
Thought provoking
Why is this training important?
Compliance
It's important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.
As it stands, there is no legislation relating to unconscious bias. However, unconscious bias can fall into the category of equality & diversity, for which, there is relevant legislation for The Equality and Diversity Act 2010.
Unconcious Bias Training can have the following impact on your business
Promotes Diversity and Inclusion
One of the foremost benefits of unconscious bias training is that it promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Businesses can create a more welcoming workplace culture and inclusive environment for future members of staff.
Bad workplace culture can put members potential members of staff off, if not dealt with this can lead to workplace bullying.
Business benefits
As humans, we naturally have biases for and against all manner of things – it just means we prefer one thing over another. Some biases we’re completely aware of, others we’re not. Having employees complete anti bias training will have a massive impact on your business.
Our unconscious biases come from a part of our brains which make quick, automatic judgements. When these judgements are negative, they can have a significant impact on our relationships with other people, can affect how well we work with others, and can destroy productivity. To avoid this, it’s important that people are made aware of their unconscious biases so that they can think about whether they’re fair or not. This online unconscious bias course does just that. It shines a light on your unconscious biases and encourages an environment of inclusion and diversity, benefiting both employees and the wider business.
Mitigates legal risks
Finally, unconscious bias can lead to legal and reputational risks for businesses. Discriminatory practices can lead to lawsuits and money lost in claims.
This in turn can lead to a loss of customers, if they hear about your organisation through bad press. Unconscious bias training can help businesses mitigate these risks by promoting a culture of diversity and inclusion in line with The Equality and Diversity Act 2010.
Business benefits
As humans, we naturally have biases for and against all manner of things – it just means we prefer one thing over another. Some biases we’re completely aware of, others we’re not.
Our unconscious biases come from a part of our brains which make quick, automatic judgements. When these judgements are negative, they can have a significant impact on our relationships with other people, can affect how well we work with others, and can destroy productivity. To avoid this, it’s important that people are made aware of their unconscious biases so that they can think about whether they’re fair or not. This course does just that. It shines a light on your unconscious biases and encourages an environment of inclusion and diversity, benefiting both employees and the wider business.
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Frequently asked questions
As per the office of diversity and outreach: "Unconscious biases are social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness. Everyone holds unconscious beliefs about various social and identity groups, and these biases stem from one’s tendency to organise social worlds by categorising. Unconscious bias is far more prevalent than conscious prejudice and often incompatible with one’s conscious values. Certain scenarios can activate unconscious attitudes and beliefs. For example, biases may be more prevalent when multi-tasking or working under time pressure."
It's estimated that unconscious bias in the workplace costs businesses in the US alone around $64 billion annually. This is calculated by the cost of losing and replacing more than 2 million workers due to unfairness and discrimination. Training can play a huge role in raising awareness of these unconscious biases and in turn, helps create a fairer, more diverse workplace with reduced staff turnover.
Unconscious bias training helps increase awareness of harmful biases and overlook them to create a fairer working environment. This can have a positive impact on other areas of the business too. It can lead to higher retention rates, more diverse teams, and improved staff loyalty.
Some of the most common types of unconscious bias include but are not limited to Affinity Bias, Attractiveness Bias, Conformity Bias, Gender Bias, Ageism, and Height Bias. You can read more about these here.
Yes, this course is approved by the IIRSM.
Yes, you can try this course before you buy it at any time.
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