Unconscious Bias Training
Our unconscious bias training has been created to identify, challenge, and reduce unconscious bias in the workplace. This online unconscious bias course is CPD accredited and is suitable for use in all industries. Upon completing our unconscious bias course, employees will understand the most common types of biases, as well as the negative impacts that unconscious bias can have on an organisation. Workplaces with less bias tend to cultivate fairer, more diverse, and open cultures.
Over 99% of the information processed by our brains happens unconsciously, leaving room for unconscious bias to creep in
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Learning outcomes
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Understand what the most common types of unconscious bias are and how the mind works to form these
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Learn to train your mind to reduce bias and understand the dangers of allowing yourself to make assumptions
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Understand the negative impact unconscious bias’ can have on organisations
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Course contents
This online training course is broken down into 2 sections
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1Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
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2Strategies for Reducing Bias
Section 1
This first section goes into what unconscious biases are, the common types, and how they are formed. It looks at how the mind works, how it stores information, and how it creates negative biases. There’s also a couple of little training exercises to get you thinking about yourself and your workplace!
Section 2
Now we look at the four key areas for tackling bias – self-awareness, acknowledging bias, challenging bias, and training our minds to think differently. We look at stereotyping, body language (micro-actions), and the dangers of making assumptions.
About this course
Cases of Unconscious Bias happen every single day in UK workplaces and they can have a seriously negative impact on staff morale and productivity. We are unaware of our unconscious biases but they are stored away in our minds and still affect the way we think and how we behave.
An example of a common unconscious bias is Conformity Bias, which is when we behave similarly to others in a group, even if it goes against what we actually believe.
This Unconscious Bias Training has been created to identify your own unconscious biases as well as any others that already exist in your workplace. It looks at things such as how they affect workplace relationships, decision-making, and workplace culture.
This course works in conjunction with our unconscious bias for management course. It’s also the perfect partner for both equality, diversity & inclusion training and bullying & harassment for employees courses.
All of these training courses are available online for your convenience and can be completed on any device, at any time.
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The importance of Unconscious Bias Training
It's important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.
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Each of our courses ends with a multiple-choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Unconscious Bias course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your Unconscious Bias Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Please note if you are using our unconscious bias course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
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Clear, concise and reassuring
The presenter spoke in a calm and reassuring manner concerning a subject that people easily get defensive about … the content explained how normal it is to form biases, and also the need to be aware of them and be open to being challenged, as part of one's own development.
I found this very helpful
It was very interesting and it made me think about my own thoughts and feelings about people I know and new people I meet. Thank you
makes you think
good and informative and makes you think more about your actions
very well written and performed
many very good setups of scenarios and situations that had the desired affect of challenging unconscious biases even when we know what is coming. personally am also very grateful that on the section about microactions that there was an explicit example about how there are people who can't make prolonged eye contact – as someone who's autistic, so often this sort of training ignores that there are people who can't do the "right" or neurotypical levels of eye contact and so autistic people who cannot make prolonged eye contact or who make it in the wrong way get automatically labelled as suspicious, so it felt good to be acknowledged and for that to be explicitly brought up.
Eye opening
Lots of very interesting information on how bias works and why we experience it consciously or not.
Eye opening
Lots of very interesting information on how bias works and why we experience it consciously or not.
Informative and thought-provoking
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
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This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Why is this training important?
Compliance
It’s important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.
As it stands, there is no legislation relating to unconscious bias. However, unconscious bias can fall into the category of equality & diversity, for which, there is relevant legislation for The Equality and Diversity Act 2010.
Unconscious Bias Training can have the following impact on your business:
Promotes Diversity and Inclusion
One of the foremost benefits of unconscious bias training is that it promotes diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Businesses can create a more welcoming workplace culture and inclusive environment for future members of staff.
Bad workplace culture can put members potential members of staff off, if not dealt with this can lead to workplace bullying.
Business benefits
As humans, we naturally have biases for and against all manner of things – it just means we prefer one thing over another. Some biases we’re completely aware of, others we’re not. Having employees complete anti bias training will have a massive impact on your business.
Our unconscious biases come from a part of our brains which make quick, automatic judgements. When these judgements are negative, they can have a significant impact on our relationships with other people, can affect how well we work with others, and can destroy productivity. To avoid this, it’s important that people are made aware of their unconscious biases so that they can think about whether they’re fair or not. This online unconscious bias course does just that. It shines a light on your unconscious biases and encourages an environment of inclusion and diversity, benefiting both employees and the wider business.
Mitigates legal risks
Finally, unconscious bias can lead to legal and reputational risks for businesses. Discriminatory practices can lead to lawsuits and money lost in claims.
This in turn can lead to a loss of customers, if they hear about your organisation through bad press. Unconscious bias training can help businesses mitigate these risks by promoting a culture of diversity and inclusion in line with The Equality and Diversity Act 2010.
Frequently asked questions
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As per the office of diversity and outreach: “Unconscious biases are social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness. Everyone holds unconscious beliefs about various social and identity groups, and these biases stem from one’s tendency to organise social worlds by categorising. Unconscious bias is far more prevalent than conscious prejudice and often incompatible with one’s conscious values. Certain scenarios can activate unconscious attitudes and beliefs. For example, biases may be more prevalent when multi-tasking or working under time pressure.”
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It’s estimated that unconscious bias in the workplace costs businesses in the US alone around $64 billion annually. This is calculated by the cost of losing and replacing more than 2 million workers due to unfairness and discrimination. Training can play a huge role in raising awareness of these unconscious biases and in turn, helps create a fairer, more diverse workplace with reduced staff turnover.
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Unconscious bias training helps increase awareness of harmful biases and overlook them to create a fairer working environment. This can have a positive impact on other areas of the business too. It can lead to higher retention rates, more diverse teams, and improved staff loyalty.
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Some of the most common types of unconscious bias include but are not limited to Affinity Bias, Attractiveness Bias, Conformity Bias, Gender Bias, Ageism, and Height Bias. You can read more about these here.
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Yes, this course is approved by the IIRSM.
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Yes, you can try this course before you buy it at any time.
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