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Unconscious Bias Training for Management
Our IIRSM approved Unconscious Bias Training for Managers has been created for managers and leaders to identify, challenge, and reduce bias in the workplace, so they can cultivate fairer, more diverse, and open organisations. Learn about your responsibilities as a leader and learn how to not let unconscious biases impact your decisions. It also contains a handy section dedicated to the entire hiring process and how to avoid unconscious bias when hiring.
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Learning outcomes
- Learn how to reduce negative the impact unconscious bias can have on organisations
- Learn about management responsibilities and to not let unconscious biases impact your decisions
- Understand what the most common types of unconscious bias are and how the mind works to form these
Covered in this course
Course contents
This training course is broken down into 4 sections
- 1 Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
- 2 Strategies for Reducing Bias
- 3 Management Responsibilities
- 4 What's Next?
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 exercises to get you thinking about you 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.
SECTION 3
Section 3 looks at best practice for shortlisting CVs, conducting interviews, and hiring and promoting staff – we look at the common mistakes that are often made when management rely on their unconscious biases to help with these decisions. We also take a look at team dynamics and the importance of an Inclusive Culture.
SECTION 4
This section includes some simple and straightforward tools that you can use as soon as you’ve finished the course. It encourages users to identify and reduce bias right from the outset!
About this course
A bias is a judgement or opinion that’s based on our own thoughts about someone or something - rather than the reality or the facts. Biases are natural (we can’t help having them) but they shouldn’t go unchallenged.
We have conscious biases which are biases we’re aware of, and we have unconscious biases which we’re unaware of - but they are stored away in our mind and they still affect what we think and how we behave.
This Unconscious Bias Training course has been created to explain how you can identify your own unconscious biases and any that exist in your workplace. It looks at how they affect decision making, working relationships and your organisation’s culture. Fundamentally, this training offers practical tools for reducing the negative impact that unconscious bias can have on your organisation.
By identifying, challenging and reducing bias, management can create a more communicative, diverse and successful workforce.
This course works in conjunction with Unconscious Bias for Employees, and it’s the perfect partner for both Equality & Diversity, and Bullying & Harassment for Managers.
Presented by
Nadira TudorThe importance of Unconscious Bias Training for Management
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 for Management 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 for Management 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.
705 real user reviews
It was interesting and spot on..
I like the fact that it can stop anx I can go back to where I left off
Thank you
The course could be a little shorter without losing anything but overall it is well done
really enjoyable.
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Ridiculously too long
An important topic, but dragged out over way too many slides. The concept is not difficult to grasp. Also pairing the topic of unconscious bias with recruitment practices extended the module further, and unnecessarily for some who have no recruitment duties.
Makes you think.
It is good to evaluate how we subconciously think.
It is an important course for all
The course helped me identifying the different types of the unconscious biases we may all have but unaware of and therefore tackle them and create a better work environment and more productive one.
short, apporachable
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Informative
Although I am not a manager this course was very interesting and 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:
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