Unconscious Bias & Inclusive Hiring Training
Unconscious Bias & Inclusive Hiring Training will support business outcomes by improving your ability to recruit top talent and make better people decisions.
Overview
Our Unconscious Bias & Inclusive Hiring Training 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
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- 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
Learning Outcomes
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- Understanding of the nature, origin, and consequences of cognitive blindspots and bias
- Knowledge of the different types of bias that impact recruitment and assessment
- Awareness of one’s own biases
- An understanding of when one is most susceptible to bias
- Knowledge of objective hiring practices
- Proven techniques to manage bias in oneself and others
- Structured interviewing skills
- Appreciation of the value of the contributions of diverse employees
- Willingness to tap non-traditional talent pools
- Commitment to adopting objective hiring practices
Workshop participants leave with a personalised action plan for objective hiring.
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.
Participants
Hiring managers seeking to improve their diversity and inclusion capability and develop skills for inclusive recruitment and objective selection.
Optimal learning outcomes are achieved in a group size of 8-22 participants although larger group sizes can be accommodated.
Delivery
Developing an inclusive mindset requires commitment. The recommended length of the workshop is a half-day (3 hours); however, shorter sessions are available on request.
The workshop can be delivered virtually or face-to-face.
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