Promotions, and Retention 2021 - Workplace Unconscious Bias: Minimizing the Impact on Discrimination, Hiring, Promotions, and Retention

Unconscious bias, or implicit bias, is built into our DNA—it is part of our human nature. It is automatic for humans to categorize individuals and groups to help us make sense of the world. Unconscious bias includes mental shortcuts to categorize people we are unfamiliar with into specific groups. Often those groups are labeled “good” or “bad”.
Implicit, or unconscious bias, exists in the workplace and classrooms. What does it look like? How can an employer create an unbiased work environment? How can management get in touch with their own unconscious biases to combat unintentional bias with colleagues
To define unconscious bias
To examine the science of unconscious bias
To list examples of unconscious bias
Speaker:
Dr. Susan Strauss is a national and international speaker, trainer and consultant. She has worked as a psychiatric nurse and her undergraduate degree is in psychology and human services.