Unconscious Bias in the Workplace

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Unconscious Bias in the Workplace Unconscious bias shapes our decisions and interactions, often without us realising. By recognising and addressing these hidden influences through awareness and staff training, organisations can create inclusive environments that value diverse perspectives, boost collaboration, and empower everyone to thrive.

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Overview

Uncovering and Overcoming Unconscious Bias in the Workplace

With the growing importance of diversity and inclusion in today’s world, it is essential for organisations to create environments where all individuals feel valued and respected. A key step towards achieving this is addressing unconscious bias.

Unconscious bias refers to the subtle, often unintentional stereotypes and prejudices that can influence our decisions and actions without our conscious awareness. These biases can shape our perceptions of factors such as gender, race, age, and more, ultimately impacting the way we interact in the workplace. This can really affect workplaces and organisations and can be a huge problem when trying to be fully diverse.

Understanding and tackling unconscious bias begins with awareness. By bringing these biases to light, employees can reflect on their ingrained assumptions and recognise how these might impact their relationships with colleagues and clients, as well as their contributions to workplace culture. This process involves self-reflection, education, and open dialogue, enabling diverse perspectives to enhance innovation, productivity, and mutual respect.

To address these biases effectively, staff training on the topics equips employees with the tools to adopt inclusive behaviours and encourage empathy and understanding. Together, these actions not only improve team dynamics but also help create a more equitable workplace where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

What's Included

What's Included: Unconscious Bias in the Workplace

Legal Island’s Unconscious Bias in the Workplace eLearning course provides comprehensive training for all Northern Ireland-based employees, ensuring awareness of good practice in reducing unconscious bias in the workplace.

This course has been recently updated and includes new lessons on the impact of proximity bias and remote working, artificial intelligence and bias, and real life examples of organisations that have encountered unconscious bias issues in the workplace.

To enhance our ability to provide cutting-edge learning solutions, we have integrated AI tools for eLearning into this course.

Topics covered include:

What is unconscious bias
The different types of unconscious bias
The impact of unconscious bias
Avoiding unconscious bias in the workplace
How to recognise your unconscious bias
How to reduce your unconscious bias

Should you have a particular need to brand or tailor any of our courses to your specific requirements, that is no problem at all. We offer a full bespoke service in-house. If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to contact our eLearning Sales Manager, Debbie Wilson - debbie@legal-island.com

Importance of Training

Why Unconscious Bias Training at Work is Important for Employees in Northern Ireland?

Unconscious bias at work can influence decisions in recruitment, promotion, staff development, and recognition and can lead to a less diverse workforce. Cases of unconscious bias happen every single day in Northern Ireland workplaces. Where unconscious bias is against a protected social characteristic, it can be discriminatory in law. Recognising and addressing unconscious bias, often referred to as implicit bias, is a fundamental step towards creating a fair and equitable work environment.

Organisations have much to gain from promoting a higher awareness of unconscious bias amongst their staff. The benefits of reducing unconscious bias in the workplace include:

Better decision making
Reduced recruitment costs
Increased staff engagement
More productive teams
Increased diversity in the workplace

Who needs Unconscious Bias Training?

The standard misconception is that unconscious bias awareness training is only required for those working in recruitment and selection. This is not the case, the benefit of making all staff aware of what biases they might have can be a great tool to use to prevent a claim of discrimination or harassment in an organisation.

Course Duration

How long does Unconscious Bias in the Workplace Training take?

The course will take no longer than 60 minutes to complete including an assessment. Each member of staff will receive their own personalised certificate upon successful completion.

Key Statistics

Why learn with Legal Island?

We take huge pride in the training we deliver across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Our key statistics show:

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of users said they found the courses beneficial for their organisation

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of users said they found the courses convenient and easy to use

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of users said their knowledge of the compliance topic area improved

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of users said they would recommend our eLearning courses to other organisations

750,000+

hours of training and course content delivered

200,000+

employees across the island of Ireland have now benefitted from our services

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