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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 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.
1,193 real user reviews
Good
The course is easy to follow but when doing test my screen jumped and went on the wrong answer. Would be better with comformation button so you can change the answer to the one you want.
Very Interesting
Really enjoyed this training - definitely makes you think about yourself and how you think and act.
thought provoking
The slide where you only heard a voice initially and then you saw the people and they continued to talk summed up the training for me.
Very helpful-very good
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Clear and well presented
Explains about how the judgements we make about people are influenced by unconscious factors which can lead to lack of diversity and inequality in the work place.
Really good! Engaging and easy to follow
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
OK but...
The course itself was good but I question its relevance to governors. When we are discussing individuals we almost invariably do not know the full details, so that we cannot identify those concerned. We are not told the gender, let alone the finer details, apart from in the Admissions Committee and the interviews for HT, and between governors. The scope for governors to show bias are therefore limited in my opinion.
Good examples
very difficult subject handled well. Loved the boxes in the brian
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.
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 organize social worlds by categorizing. 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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