Unconscious bias can lead to decisions that unfairly discriminate against individuals and can negatively affect workplace culture, reputation and bottom line. Identifying and reducing unconscious bias improves quality of life, both personal and professional.
This course will give you the information and tools to define and understand unconscious bias, identify potential biases in your personal life and in your workplace, and develop plans to reduce these biases for the benefit of you, your workplace and those with whom you interact.
Session One: Course Overview
Course Overview
Learning Objectives
Pre-Assignment
Pre-Course Assessment
Session Two: Defining Unconscious Bias
What is Unconscious Bias?
Self-Examination of Unconscious Bias
The Science of BIAS
Examining Your Schema
Unconscious Bias and Our World
Session Three: Addressing Unconscious Bias
Owning Unconscious Bias
Five Rs of Reducing Unconscious Bias
Exploring the Five Rs
Examining Unconscious Bias
Session Four: Identifying Personal Unconscious Bias
Identifying Personal Unconscious Bias
The Need for Bias
Touching Bias Today
Reflections
A Roadmap for Learning (and Re-learning)
Finding Our Filters
Exploration
Session Five: Reducing Personal Unconscious Bias
Creating a Plan
Objectives
Writing Learning Objectives
Session Six: Identifying Workplace Unconscious Bias
Where to Look
The Interview Activity
New Versus Familiar
Examining Micro-inequities
Reversing the Process
Session Seven: Reducing Workplace Unconscious Bias
Sharing New Information with Adults
Tenets of Adult Education
Other Methods of Addressing Unconscious Bias
Evaluation
Writing the Plan
Creating a Workplace Plan
Personal Action Plan
Course Summary
Recommended Reading List
Post-Course Assessment
Pre- and Post-Course Assessment Answer Key
Pre-Course Assessment
Post-Course Assessment
Assignment Answer Key
Session Three: Addressing Unconscious Bias
Session Four: Identifying Personal Unconscious Bias
Session Five: Reducing Personal Unconscious Bias
Session Six: Identifying Workplace Unconscious Bias
Session Seven: Reducing Workplace Unconscious Bias