Sessions
Concurrent Session
Everyday Bias: Further Explorations into Creating Conscious, Humane and Inclusive Organizations
Salons H-J
Wednesday 10/28/2015 08:00 AM - 09:15 AM
1.25 SHRM PDCs, 1.25 HR Credit
| Competencies: Leadership & Navigation, Global & Cultural Effectiveness
| Intended Audience: Senior-Level
Workplace Application:
Learn the science behind unconscious bias, how it impacts people in you organization and an approach for creating more mindful inclusion.
Repeated from Monday at 3:15 p.m.
Based on more than a decade of thought leadership in this field, the presenters will not only share the newest neurocognitive and evidence-based research about the cause and effect of every day patterns of bias, but also examples of how organizations can design educational methodologies, structures, systems and behaviors that can lead to more mindful inclusion throughout the talent management system of an organization, including case references from actual application with organizations around the world. This session will help you:
- Have a deeper understanding of the neurocognitive science behind bias, as well as the evidence-based research that explains the impact that it has on the every day interactions and decision that people make within organizations of all kind.
- Interpret some of your own patterns of beliefs and perception so you are better able to support inclusion for others.
- Learn the ways bias can impact critical decisions and results, and ways to mitigate that impact.
- Understand and advocate for strategies in your organization to reduce the impact of bias internally and in the organization's relationship to their clients and stakeholders.
- Take your current organizational inclusion efforts to a new level.
