Overview

Our Inclusive Hiring workshop seeks to reduce bias in hiring by transferring skills for inclusive recruitment and objective selection. Using experiential ‘a-ha’ activities that ‘show’ rather than ‘tell’ participants their biases, workshop participants develop an awareness of their own and others’ biases. They also learn when they are most susceptible to bias as well as proven techniques for monitoring and managing bias across recruitment and selection processes.

Content & Flow

• • Examples of bias in recruitment and selection
  • Hiring for fit vs. objective hiring
  • The costs of poor recruitment and selection at the organisational and individual level
  • Organisational drivers for workforce diversity
  • The nature & origin of bias including explicit vs. implicit bias
  • Bias pressure points
  • Micro-biases
  • Awareness of one’s own bias
  • Best practices for inclusive recruitment and objective hiring (e.g., writing inclusive job advertisements, blind recruitment, targets, accessing and attracting diverse talent pools, skills matrices and rating scales, work samples, behavioural-based and structured interviewing, panel diversity)
  • Evidence-based techniques for managing one’s biases
  • Deep-dive into structured interviewing and objective questioning
  • Effective techniques for responding to bias in others
  • Action and accountability plan

Approach 

Consistent with research on adult learning, we believe that the best learning outcomes result when participants engage holistically with program content. All Culture Plus Consulting learning and development programs incorporate experiential learning techniques, including opportunities to reflect on and apply learnings to the real-life challenges facing participants.