facebook Unconscious Bias: Learn How to Overcome It and Build a Better Workplace

Fighting Unconscious Bias

The success of any organization hinges on its ability to leverage diverse perspectives and talents. Yet, unconscious biases — subtle, often unrecognized assumptions and judgments — can hinder diversity and inclusion efforts, affecting decision-making processes and organizational culture. For leaders, understanding and addressing these biases is crucial in fostering a more inclusive and equitable workplace.

Business Impact

Ideally Suitable For

  • First-time Managers
  • Individual Contributors
  • Middle-level Managers
  • Senior Leaders
  • New Joiners

The delivery will be customised as per the needs of the learning cohort.

What you will learn in Fighting Unconscious Bias

How is this activity available?

Do It Yourself (DIY)

Do It Yourself (DIY)

Gamification

Gamification

Instructor-led Training (ILT)

Instructor-led Training (ILT)

Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT)

Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT)

Online Business Simulation (OBS)

Online Business Simulation (OBS)

Microlearning

Microlearning

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Available in -

  • Do It Yourself (DIY) Do It Yourself (DIY)
  • Gamification Gamification
  • Instructor-led Training (ILT) Instructor-led Training (ILT)
  • Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT) Virtual Instructor-led Training (VILT)
  • Online Business Simulation (OBS) Online Business Simulation (OBS)
  • Microlearning Microlearning
This course includes:
  • modules 3 modules
  • fun challenges Duration: 90-120 minutes
  • Duration of 3 hours 1 case study
  • 25+ fun challengesIdeal for: 20-30 participants at a time
  • Participant handbook
  • Pre-work assignment (optional)
  • Post-work assignment (optional)
  • Pocket insights (optional)
  • Manager Insights (optional)

This Gamified workshop will help you:

  • Lower the incidence of misunderstandings and conflicts by promoting better communication and understanding among diverse groups
  • Promote a more diverse and inclusive workplace by reducing biases in hiring, promotions, and everyday operations
  • Increase employee morale and engagement by fostering a more respectful and inclusive culture
  • Encourage diverse perspectives and ideas, driving innovation and creativity within teams
  • Reduce turnover by creating an equitable environment where all employees feel valued and respected
  • Imbibe a culture of inclusivity and fairness, helping you attract the best and brightest talent

The gamified unconscious bias activity is an eye-opening and interactive session designed to bring awareness to prevalent unconscious biases that exist in our daily lives. Built on an engaging storyline set in a small town in the foothills of the Himalayas, where the participants take a much-needed vacation. As they step into a charming restaurant, they encounter a young gentleman who seems to be the manager. However, something feels off. The menu card holds mysterious clues that prompt them to explore hidden biases. Throughout the challenge, the participants will be presented with thought-provoking scenarios and puzzles that shed light on unconscious biases and their impact on our decision-making.

As they progress, they’ll gain a deeper understanding of how biases can shape perceptions and behaviors. The engaging storyline will keep them hooked while allowing them to reflect on their own biases.

This activity challenges assumptions, broadens perspective ensuring the participants become more inclusive.

Some of the biases covered in the activity are:

  1. Recency bias
  2. First impression bias
  3. Stereotype bias
  4. Affinity bias
  5. Halo and Horn effect
  6. Proximity bias
  • Case study: Project Pioneer
  • Business impact of D&I
  • The spiraling effect of the barriers to an inclusive workplace
  • Re-thinking behaviors
  • Implications for the team
  • Measures to build a culture of inclusion
  • Activity: Just by looking at me

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For each workshop, we can help you with three different teasers you can customize and share periodically with participants to build excitement and get traction.

We are glad you asked that question. Every learning intervention starts with the question "Why?" and "What is the difference you want to see at the workplace because your learner attended this session?" Once we are clear, our learning designers put together a thoughtfully curated learning journey that could be a mix of different methodologies, chosen to suit your learning environment. Besides this, to aid learning, we can (optionally) buttress it through:

  • A pre-learning assignment for learners to know where they stand before the journey.
  • A participant handbook that aids the learner in returning to what was covered during the session and reviewing it again, thus helping in learning reinforcement.
  • A post-learning assignment for learners to know where they stand after the journey. Assessing the gap in learning helps learners in bridging it.
  • Pocket insights - a ready reckoner with the key concepts that can either be carried along or be pinned up as a ready reminder.
  • Manager Essentials - tips (for the managers of the learners) to recognize behavioral changes and create an environment that encourages the learners to put what they have learned to practice.
  • Post-learning application of learning at the workplace through a specific project.
We try to capture the impact of every learning intervention through an impact report that is then shared with clients.

On each topic page, you will see icons on the right that clarify this. This is how you decode them:

  • ILT (Instructor-led Training) - ILT (Instructor-led Training)
  • VILT (Virtual Instructor-led Training) - VILT (Virtual Instructor-led Training)
  • OBS (Online Business Simulation) - OBS (Online Business Simulation)
  • ML (Microlearning) - ML (Microlearning)
  • MC (Masterclass) - MC (Masterclass)
  • SDP (Storified Digital Products Asynchronous) - SDP (Storified Digital Products - Asynchronous)
  • DIY (Do It Yourself) - DIY (Do It Yourself)

Every single workshop is customized to the precise customer need and brief. Our client advisory team will work closely with you to understand your context and pass it on to the execution team.

You can download a program overview from each of the topic pages. Do note that while this will give you a broad structure of the workshop, our learning designers will still need to talk with you to customize the workshop to your context.

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