Unconscious Bias & Microaggressions
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Understand how bias works, recognise microaggressions, and build practical strategies to interrupt bias in workplace decisions. From hiring to everyday interactions - grounded in current research and real workplace scenarios.
What you will cover
- How bias works
- Bias in hiring
- Microaggressions at work
- Responding to bias
- Systemic bias
How you will learn
- Five sets of real work situations
- Scenarios that do not make it easy
- The same moment seen from the other person's side
- Deciding what matters most when everything competes
- Following what one decision sets off
- NZ-specific bias research and examples
- Practical bystander intervention strategies
Introduction video transcript
Unconscious bias isn't a character flaw. It's the way brains cope, they take shortcuts based on patterns picked up over a lifetime. And it's the most subtle biases that are often the most damaging. So managing bias requires structural interventions. It's not just about good intentions. So here you'll learn how these brain shortcuts work and then build practical strategies to help interrupt bias. You can't just turn bias off, but you can see it coming, and that's enough to work with.
Course details
- 5 decks
- 3 areas
- 13 topics
- Approximately 4 hours