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How Can You Make Your Diversity Training in Unconscious Bias Effective?

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With the increasing number of mishaps, companies and enterprises are becoming more aware of prevailing unconscious bias in the work culture. Unconscious bias training, in this regard, has become a buzzing topic. Unconscious bias training is a positive step many organizations can take to identify and address the embedded biases that influence important decisions.

Unconscious bias awareness training

Unconscious biases can be widely varied, such as judging applicants based on their race, gender, and religion. Some employers believe that male workers are better compared to females or that some individuals are better due to their background or race. These are the reasons many organizations have started incorporating diversity training unconscious bias or unconscious bias training to reduce or eliminate discrimination in the workplace.

Many people doubt the effectiveness of unconscious bias training. Here are a few tips to make unconscious bias training effective.

How to Make Unconscious Bias Training Effective

Spread Awareness about Unconscious Bias

The first step that can impact unconscious bias in workplace culture is awareness. All employees in the company should have a thorough understanding of the issue. They must know that unconscious bias and discrimination does exist in the first place. And no one is off the hook from having biases. HR professionals or managers can gauge the level of discrimination in different areas using tools like IAT (Harvard Implicit Association Test).

The IAT can measure implicit bias based on religion, race, gender, and other areas. Plus, it helps employees understand blind spots and identify factors that can influence bias.

Conduct Long-term Unconscious Bias Training

To make unconscious bias training effective, it must be long-term and ongoing. No company can change perceptions, long-term stereotypes, and behaviours, through one day’s training. They cannot eradicate learned biases and stereotypes by conducting one-day training when an individual has spent his entire life thinking in a specific way. Unconscious bias training has to be conducted frequently to have sustained impact.

Create a System to Reduce Situations Leading to Biases

Bias can be a quickly-adapting and malleable entity. It is essential to anticipate various situations that may to lead to discrimination or have been a reason for bias in the past. By analyzing these situations, companies can create systems to reduce the likelihood of biased behaviours from occurring.

Adopt Measures to Assess Changes

After implementing unconscious bias training, it is vital to have some measures in place to evaluate incremental changes. It is the best way to learn whether unconscious bias training was a failure or success. Managers must collect the data at different training stages to ensure the value of the training.


Bottom Line

Overall, without measuring the effectiveness of unconscious bias training, companies cannot design or implement new strategies to make workplaces bias-free. Thus, the given tips are useful to maximize the benefits of these training and make the culture more inclusive.


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