Disrupt Unconscious Bias and Improve Your Workplace Culture

Promote a more inclusive workplace by fostering awareness and addressing unconscious bias.

 
1.5 Hours of
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Unconscious bias affects all organizations across industries, and is a key concern for workplaces committed to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Managers seek ways to address bias effectively, while employees strive to navigate or prevent it in their work. This course offers the latest concepts and strategies to identify and address bias in your environment, with the potential to impact broader societal change.

With over 20 years of experience as a DEI practitioner, author, and consultant, Farzana Nayani offers practical tools and best practices that can effectively reduce bias and shift perceptions in the workplace.

By examining our decisions, behaviors, and communication with others, we can create a more impactful and equitable work environment.

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What will you learn?

Explore the definitions and origins of unconscious bias
Deepen awareness about how unconscious bias is challenging

Recognize the types and forms of bias

Discover how biases show up in the workplace and in everyday interactions

Implement best practices and strategies to address and prevent bias
Continue ongoing efforts through action-planning

Who is this course for?

Individual or Employee

Any individual or employee seeking an overview of unconscious bias and practical activities to readily apply their learning to the workplace.

Managers

Entry to mid-level managers focused on leading effectively, increasing awareness of how bias operates within organizations, and how to mitigate it.

HR Leaders

HR leaders looking to support fellow employees with skills, strategies, and tools that can be put into practice immediately.

Course Outcomes

Develop awareness of how unconscious bias is formed
Identify the types and forms of bias
Explore strategies to mitigate and interrupt bias
Gain knowledge about models for responding to instances of bias
Plan for how to recover from situations where bias may occur

Taking this course, “Disrupt Unconscious Bias and Improve Your Workplace Culture”, is an important part in the journey of creating awareness of bias in our perceptions and interactions with others, as well as within organizational processes. By reducing bias, we can positively impact the workplace - and ultimately transform society overall.

Course Activities

  • Goal-setting

  • Scenario observation & analysis

  • Reflection exercises

  • Glossary of types of bias

  • Bias detection practice

  • Bias recovery checklist

  • Partner accountability worksheet

  • Action planning

  • Review of additional resources for further learning

Requirements

  • Be ready to consider different perspectives and viewpoints

  • Be prepared for note-taking and reflective exercises

  • Come forward with an open mind to explore challenging scenarios

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Instructor

Farzana Nayani

Farzana Nayani (she/hers) is a recognized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion specialist, business and strategy coach, and international keynote speaker. She has worked with Fortune 500 corporations, public agencies, higher education institutions, school districts, and non-profit organizations as a consultant and trainer on diversity and inclusion, intercultural communication, supplier diversity, and employee engagement.

Farzana’s advisory work with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), small business advocacy, and entrepreneurship, and racial equity & inclusion has taken her to engagements across North America, from the White House to Silicon Valley. Farzana’s expertise has been featured in media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, DiversityInc, Parents magazine, NPR, the Washington Post, Marie Claire, and the LA Times. Her book Raising Multiracial Children: Tools for Nurturing Identity in a Racialized World with North Atlantic Books was released in 2020 and distributed by Penguin Random House. Her latest book The Power of Employee Resource Groups: How People Create Authentic Change was released in 2022.

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